Bill Self (born December 27, 1962)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Kansas Jayhawks
Current conference: Big 12 Conference
Oral Roberts record: 55-54 (.505)
Tulsa record: 74-27 (.733)
Illinois record: 78-24 (.765)
Kansas record: 588-143 (.804) **
Overall record: 795-248 (.762) **
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 2 (2008, 2022)
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 24 (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) **
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 13 (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2022) **
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 3 (2008, 2012, 2022) **
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (1997)
- Big 12 Regular Season Champion: 16 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023) **
- Big Ten Regular Season Champion: 2 (2001, 2002)
- WAC Regular Season Champion: 2 (1998, 1999)
- Big 12 Tournament Champion: 8 (2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2022) **
- Big Ten Tournament Champion: 1 (2003)
Awards:
- AP Coach of the Year: 2 (2009, 2016)
- Naismith Coach of the Year: 1 (2012)
- NABC Coach of the Year: 1 (2016)
- Sporting News Coach of the Year: 3 (2000, 2009, 2012)
- Henry Iba Award: 1 (2009)
- Big 12 Coach of the Year: 6 (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018)
- WAC Coach of the Year: 1 (2000)
- John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award (2013)
- Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (inducted 2017)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
2003-present | Kansas |
2000-2003 | Illinois |
1997-2000 | Tulsa |
1993-1997 | Oral Roberts |
1986-1993 | Oklahoma State (asst) |
1985-1986 | Kansas (asst) |
Bill Self Facts
- Billy Eugene Self, Jr.
- Born December 27, 1962
- Hometown: Edmond, Oklahoma
- Alma Mater: Oklahoma State University (BS, 1985 & MS, 1989)
- Named Oklahoma High School Basketball Player of the Year in 1981 before becoming a four-year letter winner at Oklahoma State under Cowboys head coach Paul Hansen
- Inducted into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame in 2013′
- First coaching position was a one-season stint as an assistant to Hall-of-Famer Larry Brown at Kansas
- Was an assistant at his alma mater for seven seasons, four under Leonard Hamilton and three under Hall-of-Famer Eddie Sutton
- Spent four seasons as head coach at Oral Roberts and three seasons at Tulsa before being hired in 2000 as head coach at Illinois
- Went to three NCAA Tournaments in three years at Illinois, including an Elite Eight trip in 2001
- Has been the head coach at Kansas since 2003, winning over 575 games and the NCAA National Championship in both 2008 and 2022
- Achieved a record-setting run of 14 consecutive* outright or shared Big 12 regular season titles (has 16* in total)
- Led the Jayhawks to the NCAA Tournament in each of his 20 seasons (excluding the cancelled 2020 tournament)
- The NCAA vacated 15 wins from the 2017-18 season, including the Jayhawks’ Big 12 regular season and Tournament titles and their run to the Final Four, as a result of rules violations stemming from the FBI investigation into corruption in college basketball
- Given in a contract extension in 2021, a rolling five-year deal that automatically adds one year after each season
- In 2022, the Jayhawks earned a 1-seed and went on to win their second NCAA title under Self (fourth overall)
Bill Self Coaching Tree
- Brett Ballard (Washburn, Baker)
- Dee Brown (Roosevelt)
- Chase Buford (Wisconsin Herd)
- Joe Dooley (East Carolina, Florida Gulf Coast)
- Billy Gillispie (Tarleton State, Texas Tech, Kentucky, Texas A&M, UTEP)
- Barry Hinson (Southern Illinois, Missouri State, Oral Roberts)
- Tim Jankovich (SMU, Illinois State)
- Rob Judson (Northern Illinois)
- Kyle Keller (Stephen F. Austin)
- Danny Manning (Maryland, Wake Forest, Tulsa)
- Aaron Miles (Santa Cruz Warriors)
- Ben Miller (UNC Pembroke)
- Kevin Morrissey (Oklahoma City, St. Gregory’s
- David Padgett (Louisville)
- John Phillips (Tulsa)
- Roger Powell Jr. (Valparaiso)
- Norm Roberts (St. John’s)
- Doc Sadler (Southern Miss)
- Scott Sutton (Oral Roberts)
** Listed records and accomplishments for this coach do not include wins or appearances later vacated by the NCAA