From his Tulsa team’s narrow Elite Eight loss to North Carolina in 2000 to defeat in the same round a year later as coach at Illinois to his first-round losses at Kansas against Bucknell and Bradley …
From a corridor with a handful of reporters in the Alamodome long after KU’s national-championship game victory in 2008 and at KU’s last game against Missouri in 2012 in Allen Fieldhouse …
Through all that and any number of games and other times spent with him over the years, I’ve been around to witness a fairly representative spectrum of Bill Self’s emotional range.