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KU ‘moving on’ without Lagerald Vick: ‘He just needs to take care of some business.’

Bill Self says he believes, at some point, senior guard Lagerald Vick will return from his indefinite leave of absence and rejoin Kansas’ basketball team.

“It’s not going to be tomorrow by any stretch, or Monday, or probably soon after that. So we need to make sure that we support him, but on the flip side coach the guys we’ve got,” Self, KU’s 16th-year coach, said Friday at a media session held in advance of Saturday’s 11 a.m. home contest against Oklahoma State.

Self, in announcing Vick’s leave of absence Thursday night, said Vick needed to address “some personal matters that require his immediate attention.