Kansas basketball coach Bill Self uses scholarship players, walk-ons and even some of the Jayhawks’ student managers to swarm the starters during frantic full-court drills held in advance of the KU-West Virginia game.
The No. 7-ranked Jayhawks (15-2, 4-1 Big 12), who take on the Mountaineers (8-9, 0-5) at 1 p.m. Saturday at WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, W.Va., have been pestered by coach Bob Huggins’ pressing style of play in the past.
“We’ve been doing different drills — 9-on-5, 8-on-5, 6-on-5,” KU freshman point guard Devon Dotson said of live scrimmage situations in which KU’s scout team outnumbers the five-man starting unit while mimicking West Virginia’s press.