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Bill Self threatening to sue NCAA for negligence, defamation, and fraud

Kansas head coach Bill Self is willing to fight back with the NCAA.

According to a report by ESPN’s Mark Schlabach, Self’s attorney, Scott Tompsett, has filed a letter to the NCAA threatening legal action as a result of its investigation into the Kansas basketball program.

In the letter sent to NCAA vice president of legal affairs and general counsel Scott Bearby, Tompsett says the purpose of the letter is to “formally put the NCAA on notice of Mr. Self’s current and prospective claims against the NCAA relating to the NCAA’s infractions investigation of the KU men’s basketball program and Mr.