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KU’s pre-Italy practices helpful, but definitely not strenuous, Bill Self feels

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Kansas basketball coach Bill Self recently had a discussion with one of the team’s newcomers about the most important aspect of the Jayhawks’ summer exhibition tour to Italy.

That would be the 10 practices held in Lawrence prior to the early August trip — practices that some of the first-year Jayhawks deemed more difficult than did the veteran players.

“I said, ‘How many times do you think we practiced for this (four-game tour)?’’’ Self related of his first question to a Jayhawk newbie.

“He said, ‘I don’t know, countless (times).’

“I told him, ‘Ten times.