Kansas Coach Bill Self to Miss Big 12 Tournament With Health Issue

Coach Bill Self of Kansas, the reigning Division I males’s basketball champion and a high staff this season, will miss the rest of the Big 12 Conference’s match for well being causes, the college introduced Thursday.

Self, 60, arrived on the emergency division of the University of Kansas Health System on Wednesday night time and underwent a “standard procedure,” the varsity stated Thursday night. The college didn’t specify the kind of remedy, however in its assertion, Dr. Steven Stites, the chief medical officer on the well being system, stated Self didn’t have a coronary heart assault, which had been speculated on social media.

Kansas had stated Thursday morning that Self was recovering from an sickness. The college stated within the night that it will not launch any additional medical particulars for now.

“I am very grateful for the overwhelming number of well wishes my family and I have received,” Self stated in a press release. “I’m excited to get back with my team in the very near future.”

Norm Roberts, a Kansas assistant who’s a former head coach at St. John’s, led the Jayhawks in Thursday’s 78-61 win over West Virginia. He additionally coached the staff for the primary 4 video games this season when Self served a school-imposed four-game punishment as Kansas regarded to soften potential N.C.A.A. punishment following a federal investigation into corruption within the sport.

The Jayhawks are set to face Iowa State within the semifinals on Friday night in Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas went 13-5 within the Big 12 to win a regular-season title for the seventeenth time throughout Self’s 20-year tenure. After profitable final yr’s N.C.A.A. match — the second title at Kansas for the Hall of Fame coach Self — the Jayhawks are within the combine to be the No. 1 total seed this postseason regardless of having two gamers, Ochai Agbaji and Christian Braun, chosen within the first spherical of final yr’s N.B.A. draft.

The bracket for this yr’s match will probably be introduced on Sunday, and the primary spherical begins March 16.