Bill Self was hired at Kansas on April 21, 2003. Which means it took 7,957 days — until Saturday, specifically — for the Jayhawks to hit the low point of his Hall of Fame career. Given that it's Kansas and Bill Self we're talking about here, even the low points are still pretty high.
Most programs can only wish for their darkest moments to look as relatively bright as Kansas' worst days. Keep in mind the 15-6 Jayhawks are well on their way to the NCAA Tournament for a 35th consecutive time. Slotted No.
11 in the AP Top 25 this week, they'll still easily be ranked when the polls refresh Monday. Plus, KU is still cozily in the top-15 in multiple predictive metrics. But Saturday proved for good that this team isn't a 2025 Big 12 contender and, beyond that, it seems destined to do something next month that we haven't seen in more than four decades.
More on that in a minute. First, let's get into Saturday's debacle in Waco, Texas, against Baylor . The Jayhawks fell 81-70 to an unranked Bears team that was without starting point guard Jeremy Roach , then lost likely top-10 pick VJ Edgecombe to a left ankle injury early in the second half.
Before that, Kansas was up 21 points. It proceeded to blow its biggest lead in a loss in school history. That's more than 100 years of Kansas hoops.
I can't believe a Self-coached team actually vomited away that game. On a Saturday filled with outrageous finishes and season-altering outcomes , Kansas getting tidal-waved by Baylor is as loud a .
