Bill Self doesn’t blame fans for heading to the Sprint Center exits with a few minutes remaining in Wednesday night’s shocking 74-65 loss to Washington, a team picked to finish 10th in the 12-team Pac-12 in that league’s preseason media poll.
“That effort tonight … if I had paid to see that I'd have wanted something to drink over at Power & Light long before two minutes were left,” said Self, Kansas’ 15th-year coach, after a game in which the Jayhawks, according to the coach, were “horrendous” on defense “and obviously our hustle plays weren’t very good, either.