Bill Self, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Bill Self

American basketball player and coach

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1962

Place of Birth: Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States

Profession: coach, basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Bill Self

  • Billy Eugene Self Jr.
  • (born December 27, 1962) is the NCAA Division-1 men's college basketball coach at the University of Kansas.
  • During his 16 seasons as head coach, he's led the Jayhawks to at least a share of an NCAA record 14 straight Big 12 regular season championships (2005–2018), three NCAA Final Four appearances (2008, 2012, 2018), and the 2008 NCAA championship.
  • Self was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in September 2017.
  • Self, as of the end of the 2018-19 season, has the 23rd most wins among Division I coaches in NCAA History and 8th among active head coaches.As coach at Kansas, Self has a record of 202–11 (.957 win percentage) at historic Allen Fieldhouse.
  • In his tenure at Kansas, Self has had 3 home winning streaks of more than 30 wins including a school-record and 11th-best all-time 69 game streak.
  • During his tenure at Kansas, he has recruited several McDonald's All-Americans to Kansas, including Mario Chalmers, Darrell Arthur, Xavier Henry, Andrew Wiggins, Cliff Alexander, Wayne Selden Jr., Cheick Diallo, and Josh Jackson. Self has implemented a strong hi-lo motion offense using size as an advantage in the paint, and a pressing man to man defense on all his teams from his early coaching days at the University of Tulsa through the present.
  • He has also shown great adaptability on the court and has implemented sometimes drastic adjustments as needed to his defensive schemes with various degrees of success.
  • Despite Self's consistency, many reporters have questioned his abilities in the NCAA Tournament because of various upsets in early rounds, as well as a 3–7 record in the regional finals, despite being a #1 seed 7 times.
  • That said, Self has taken Kansas to eight Elite 8’s in his 16 seasons at KU, which is the most visits to that round of the tournament in that time frame. With a salary of $7.15 million for the 2017–18 season, Self is tied for third highest paid college basketball coach in the United States behind Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and Kentucky coach John Calipari and is tied with Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann.
  • He signed a 10-year contract extension in 2012, keeping him under contract with the Jayhawks until 2021–22 seasonIn September 2019, Self's program was served a Notice of Allegations by the NCAA for three Level 1 violations, a head coach responsibility charge against Self personally, and a lack of institutional control charge against the University of Kansas.

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