Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self began with the slightest of pauses, and then his eyes veered toward the sky. He had prepared for this question, and it looked as though he wanted to choose his words carefully.
His counterpart certainly had.
Twenty hours earlier, sitting on this same stage inside T-Mobile Center, Bruce Weber sensed a fall toward the mat and decided to throw one last punch in Self’s direction.
Why not?
In the end, go down swinging.
“I heard him,” Self said matter-of-factly here Thursday.
Weber resigned from his post as Kansas State’s head coach earlier Thursday morning, the conclusion of a 10-year reign in Manhattan that he saw coming.