Bill Self expected to coach Kansas in March Madness after ER visit

Lengthy-time Kansas males’s basketball coach Invoice Self is nearing a return after lacking all the Massive 12 Event.

The highest-seeded Jayhawks had been finally thwarted, 76-56, by the second-seeded Texas Longhorns in Saturday’s Massive 12 Championship sport.

Kansas, which was the Massive 12 common season champions, had been with out Self on account of a medical situation earlier this week, as per the college, which mentioned he “underwent a normal process that went nicely.”

Within the interim, the staff had been led by high assistant and former St. John’s head coach Norm Roberts, who practically led them to a title.

“He’s doing nicely. We plan on him teaching subsequent week,” Roberts mentioned of the six-time Massive 12 Coach of the Yr, in response to the Kansas Metropolis Star.

Self, 60, underwent the process after being dropped at the emergency room Wednesday evening.

It’s unclear what precisely the process was, although, there’s been public hypothesis of a coronary heart assault, Dr. Steve Stites, the chief medical officer on the College of Kansas Well being System, mentioned that wasn’t the case, per ESPN.

Self, Roberts and the Jayhawks will await their March Insanity destiny with the remainder of the nation on Sunday at 6 p.m. Kansas is predicted to once more be one of many greater seeds within the NCAA Event.

The Jayhawks are the defending nationwide champions and can be trying to change into the primary back-to-back NCAA males’s basketball match winners because the Florida Gators of 2006 and 2007.