Kansas coach Bill Self has something significant in common with fellow Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee John Wooden.
UCLA’s Wizard of Westwood won 664 games (against 162 losses, .804 winning percentage) in 29 years as a college head coach — two seasons at Indiana State followed by 27 at UCLA. Self has won an identical 664 games (against 202 losses, .767) in 26 seasons — four at Oral Roberts, three at Tulsa, three at Illinois and 16 at Kansas.
“Collectively we’ve combined for 11 national championships, too. I’ve got that going for me, too,” Self said with a laugh on a recent Hawk Talk radio show.