LAWRENCE
As heralded recruits looked on from front-row seats Friday, Kansas head basketball coach Bill Self spoofed a DirecTV commercial, freshman forward Carlton Bragg Jr. played a piano at midcourt, and a fan won $10,000 at Late Night at the Phog.
All sorts of fun and games preceded the main event, the men’s basketball scrimmage that served as the finale for the evening, but Self delivered a serious message in his short address to a raucous crowd, a crowd that did not completely fill the arena.
“We cut down nets in ’08, we got real, real close in ’12,” Self said, a confident look on his face.