Kansas basketball coach Bill Self, a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2017, has coached against 2015 Hall inductee John Calipari six times in Self’s 15 years at KU.
The scoreboard reads Self 3, Calipari 3 heading into the Jayhawks’ Tuesday night Champions Classic contest against Kentucky at Chicago’s United Center.
Self’s KU teams are 2-3 versus Calipari’s Kentucky teams and 1-0 versus Calipari’s 2007-08 Memphis team.
“There is something very competitive when you get Kentucky and Kansas together. I don’t think that’s unusual. If that’s the case you’d probably think the coaches are pretty competitive, too, because we do recruit against each other quite often,” KU’s Self said in discussing the relationship between the two, who both hail from the Larry Brown coaching tree.