Kansas Basketball Coach Bill Self Locker Room Speech after 2022 Championship win vs North Carolina 

I agree; that was a great moment, not pressing the advantage during an unfortunate and a scary incident.

As a Kansas fan, I have nothing but respect for North Carolina. How can I not? Both programs have contributed heavily to each other's success over the decades. We gave you Dean Smith. You gave us Larry Brown and Roy Williams. We gave you back Roy Williams. KU is my favorite all-time team, but UNC is my favorite team from the ACC.

Shriram...as a life long Kansas fan we respect and applaud the UNC players, staff and fans. You guys have nothing to hang your head over as there's "ALWAYS" much to come from UNC Basketball. Can't get more blue blood basketball than UNC! Here's to bright basketball future!

I agree. North Carolina and Kansas are like brothers to each other. Dean Smith played ball for Kansas. He coached North Carolina. Roy Williams was an assistant at Carolina. Then he coached Carolina and Kansas and had a legendary career at both. I have nothing but respect for the North Carolina program. North Carolina and Kansas have absolutely contributed to SO MUCH of each other’s success. Too many connections between these blue blood programs. On a side note, Bill is 19-8 against all blue bloods. He’s 4-0 against North Carolina in the tournament. Hell of a coach. And Carolina and Kansas have one more thing in common and that’s we both seem to hate Duke and Kentucky a lot. Their teams, coaches, and fanbases. Now their fanbases I definitely can’t stand. Easily the two worst fanbases in all of college basketball.

RESPECT

Absouletely agree. We might have have won 2 or 3 with him if he was a Jayhawk all his whole college career. His energy is off the charts.

He wanted to go to KU out of high school and Self didn’t want him, he easily could have been!

@Wilt Chamberlain is the GOAT the thing that always annoyed me about Roy going back to UNC was that it was Kansas native and KU alum Dean Smith that talked him into coming back..that to me was a slap in the face of KU and its fan base....

@Wilt Chamberlain is the GOAT yep..thats why im never hard on Self when they lose early in the NCAA....Self came in and not only kept what Roy had going but built on top of that..we have been very fortunate to have Self..2 NC, 4 FF and almost every year we have a team that could make a deep run..not too many schools can say that..

@Wilt Chamberlain is the GOAT I dont think i would have been as bitter about Roy leaving if he would have won at least 1 NC with KU...it bugged me seeing him win a NC in his 2nd season at UNC after 10 + years of coming up short while at KU

@Wilt Chamberlain is the GOAT I think Self having experience playing in those BIG 8 games vs Kansas helped his decision..he knew how good the KU programs and fan base is..I like OSU, but they will never support their bball program like KU does...I closed the book on my hate for Roy in 2008 when KU smashed them on their way to a NC...plus Roy showed some real class by watching the NC game wearing a KU pin..especially knowing he'd get crap about it from from the UNC community

For sure

I wanted Tech to win so badly that year. 15 seconds away from a title. The Big 12 would have gotten 3 for 3. Definitely the best league in college basketball by a long shot. Kansas, Baylor, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, even K-State have all had some some kind of tournament success in the last 9, 10 years. Overall this is what I envisioned for the Big 12 all long. Now people definitely can’t say this is an all Kansas league now.

@@derekmathews1557 Now with CIncinatti and Houston entering the conference, Big 12 is better than ever

@@reedbowden2473, yep. I love it.

@Wilt Chamberlain is the GOAT, yep. That’s extactly right.

Since Bill Self arrived, he had coached 19 seasons with no post season in 2020, we have averaged 29.3 wins per season. Do you not think that praise is warranted? We did have the best team in several of those seasons. It takes some luck to win 6 in a row in the tourney, though. Upsets happen every year. This was not even close to the best team we've had from a talent standpoint. But it was probably the most balanced team we've had in many years, with the exception of 2020. This may be one of the best teams we've ever had in terms of teamwork and chemistry. No team is EVER perfect. Perfection is hitting every shot and free throw, with zero turnovers or fouls, getting every defensive rebound, while holding your opponent to zero points. That ain't gonna happen.

Kansas has 15 30 win seasons overall. Bill Self has guided this team to nine of those 15 30 win seasons. Kansas was definitely the best team in several of those seasons. Their national championship years they won 37 and 34 games. But one thing is for sure, winning 6 games is really hard to do. This is in single game elimination tournament. I definitely believe 2022 was the most balanced team Bill Self ever had. Definitely not the most talented but what I loved about this team is they thought they were talented and that helped a ton. I said before this tournament though that Kansas depth would play a huge part in how long they would be in the tournament. Remy, Mitch, KJ, Joseph, all gave Ku really good minutes in the tournament. Even Coleman-Lands had his moments too.

@@derekmathews1557 Yup, I agree. It was next man up seemingly every game, with no fall off. Opponents would play no-catch smothering D on one or two and the others would step up.

@@mikemorgan5015, there you go.

I’m still looking at RU-vid videos myself.

Lol here I am and it’s almost May! I love the 08 squad but man this might be my favorite!

Me too! I'm still watching reruns of the games last 3 mins. And will probably for a while. Lol

@@thekansasjayhawk3504, yes absolutely

why is that even need to be mentioned? Just a ridiculous comment about a game where two teams played their butts off. just typical of some zealot to have to bring religion into a fantastic game, team and championship.

Probably not, but good luck!

Good luck with that but no!

😂

Yes they will. The N.I.T.

Back to back is a must for kansas