“That was fun. That was a toughness win,” Self, KU’s 22nd-year coach, said after the Jayhawks claimed their second marquee victim from Tobacco Road this season. KU improved to 6-0 by overcoming a flagrant 2 ejection that sent senior preseason All-American Hunter Dickinson to the locker room courtesy of an ejection with 10 1/2 minutes to play.

Bill Self brushed off becoming the winningest coach in Kansas basketball history, even as he surpassed the guy whose name is on the arena.

One week after Bill Self became the winningest coach at Kansas, the Hall of Famer joined John Calipari and Rick Barnes as the only active Division I head coaches with 800 wins.