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Suffice it to say, Bill Self is happy to get his first game as Kansas University's men's basketball coach out of the way. "It wasn't exactly what I bargained for," Self, the Jayhawks' new coach, said of Tuesday's somewhat scary, 91-87 come-from-behind exhibition victory over EA Sports All-Stars, a team that lost to Wyoming by 10 points Saturday. "We wouldn't have won the game if it was not in Allen Fieldhouse." Self -- he certainly did not want to see KU's 18-game home exhibition winning streak end in his debut on the Jayhawk bench -- credited a loud crowd for helping fuel a late Michael Lee-led rally that erased a 10-point second-half deficit against the All-Stars, who hit 16 threes in 33 attempts to KU's two threes in 10 tries. "Who in the heck scheduled those guys?" said Self.

Good-natured Wayne Simien didn't request an audience with Kansas University's stat crew after his near-perfect performance Tuesday night against Pittsburg State at Allen Fieldhouse. "Nah ... I mean, I didn't think I missed a shot, but it's all good," Simien, KU's 6-foot-9, 250-pound junior center, said after hitting 10 of 11 shots and scoring 25 points in the Jayhawks' 103-73 exhibition rout of the NCAA Division II Gorillas. Simien's only miss came on an awkward tip attempt four minutes into the second half.