SAN DIEGO
Bill Self clutched a paper box score in his left hand and stood in a back hallway inside Viejas Arena on late Tuesday night, idling for a brief moment as the clock pushed toward 11 p.m. here in southern California.
It was just moments after No. 2 Kansas finished off a 70-57 victory over San Diego State — in the Jayhawks’ first true road game of the season — and Self was a man being pulled in all different directions. He stopped to chat with the family of Mitch Lightfoot, a Kansas signee who had traveled to the game from his hometown of Tucson, Ariz.