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Productive preseason not perfect, KU’s Self maintains: ‘Coaches are always nervous’

The Kansas basketball team was able to accomplish a lot, but not as much as coach Bill Self wanted, during the month-long, two-game exhibition season.

“We’re OK as far as getting the meat and potatoes stuff in. We’re not OK if a team is going to play a junk defense against us yet. (With) stuff like that, hopefully what we do will still work, but we’ve not specifically worked on things like that,” Self said in his pre-game radio interview before Thursday’s 79-52 victory over Washburn, a game that followed a 93-55 rout of Emporia State on Oct.