Kansas head coach Bill Self discusses the season-ending injury to Jayhawks big man Udoka Azubuike during a press conference Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. By
Listen closely enough, and Bill Self couldn’t have been more clear this past season.
While his Kansas basketball team had many injuries and departures in 2018-19, one was more costly than the rest: the loss of center Udoka Azubuike after he tore a wrist ligament in January.
“I don’t think there is a more dominant or powerful or better back to the basket player in college than Udoka Azubuike,” Self said during his team’s year-end banquet last week.