Kansas basketball coach Bill Self headed to Thursday afternoon’s practice assuming freshman forward Billy Preston would be unavailable for Friday’s game against South Dakota State, set for a 7 p.m. tipoff at Allen Fieldhouse.
“We’ve got to prepare like we’re not going to have him. Then it would be a bonus if we did,” Self said of Preston, a 6-foot-10 Los Angeles native who missed Tuesday’s Kentucky game as the athletic department’s compliance officials tried to obtain a “clearer financial picture” involving Preston’s car.
“Against Kentucky we prepared like we were going to have him.