Bill Self to miss Kansas’ NCAA game against Arkansas

DES MOINES, Iowa – Invoice Self will miss top-seeded Kansas’ second-round NCAA Match recreation towards Arkansas on Saturday, the varsity introduced.

Self, who’s recovering from a coronary heart process he acquired earlier this month, has been together with his group because it arrived in Des Moines and attended conferences and practices.

Self declined to remark Friday when he walked previous reporters after observe, however mentioned in a radio interview earlier than the Jayhawks’ first-round win over Howard that he’s feeling higher and getting stronger — simply not but able to be on the bench for a recreation.

Norm Roberts, Self’s longtime assistant, will function performing coach for a fifth recreation.

Self went to the emergency room the evening of March 8, shortly after watching the Jayhawks maintain a last shootaround forward of their Huge 12 Match quarterfinal. He was complaining of chest tightness and considerations together with his steadiness, and the 60-year-old had two stents positioned to assist deal with blocked arteries.

Kansas is 3-1 in Self’s absence, with the loss coming to Texas within the Huge 12 Match championship recreation.

The 57-year-old Roberts is Self’s right-hand man, having been on Self’s workers at 4 teaching stops.

“We’ve got been collectively for nearly 25 years, so we most likely do end one another’s sentences in basketball phrases,” Roberts mentioned Friday.

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