After discussing his teaching future with household, Invoice Self introduced Wednesday that he’ll return as Kansas coach for the 2026-27 season.
Self, 63, indicated he nonetheless has the will to teach the Jayhawks to the very best degree potential.
“Jayhawk Nation, with renewed readability and the continuing help from our administration, I stay targeted and dedicated to Kansas Basketball competing for a Nationwide Championship,” Self mentioned in a press release posted by the varsity on social media. “I look ahead to seeing and listening to the perfect followers in faculty basketball subsequent season at Allen Fieldhouse.”
Self has received two nationwide titles throughout 23 seasons at Kansas since arriving in 2003 however he has battled health-related points in current seasons.
In 2023, he missed the Large 12 and NCAA Tournaments resulting from a big coronary heart problem. He had two stents inserted to clear blocked arteries.
He had one other two stents inserted in July 2025.
In mid-January of the just-concluded season, Self was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after he felt unwell and in the end obtained IV fluids and didn’t journey with the workforce for a recreation at Colorado.
After Kansas (24-11) misplaced to St. John’s within the second spherical of this season’s NCAA Event, Self mentioned he would talk about the state of affairs along with his household earlier than making a call.
The Jayhawks received nationwide titles in 2008 and 2022 underneath Self. However because the second championship, Kansas has gone 68-35 with three straight double-digit loss campaigns, the primary time that has occurred because the late Nineteen Eighties.
With the Jayhawks, Self owns a 648-167 report and has made the NCAA Event area every season.
Self has an 855-272 profession report along with his different stints coming at Oral Roberts (1993-97), Tulsa (1997-2000) and Illinois (2000-2003).
He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame in 2017.
–Area Degree Media
