ASST. COACHING RECORD
Kansas (Larry Brown)
1985-86	35-4	.897
Oklahoma State (Leonard Hamilton, Eddie Sutton)
1986-87	8-20	.288
1987-88	14-16	.467
1988-89	17-13	.567
1989-90	17-14	.548
1990-91	24-8	.750
1991-92	28-8	.777
1992-93	20-9	.690
HEAD COACHING RECORD
Oral Roberts University
1993-94	6-21	.222
1994-95	10-17	.370
1995-96	18-9	.667
1996-97	21-7	.750
Total	55-54	.505
Tulsa
1997-98	19-12	.612
1998-99	23-10	.697
1999-2000	32-5	.865
Total	74-27	.733
Illinois
2000-01	27-8	.771
2001-02	26-9	.743
2002-03	25-7	.781
Total	78-24	.765
Kansas
2003-04	24-9	.727
Total	24-9	.727

BIOGRAPHY
Bill Self, one of the most impressive young coaches in the college game today, enters his second year as head coach at the University of Kansas.

Self's debut season at Kansas was certainly a success. With 24 wins, Self tied former KU head man Dick Harp for the most wins by a first-year KU coach, and only Harp's 1956-57 team — which advanced to the NCAA title game — went further for a KU first-year coach than Self's Elite Eight squad.

Self arrived in Lawrence from the University of Illinois, where he guided the Fighting Illini to a 78-24 record over three seasons, including two Big Ten regular-season championships, a Big Ten Tournament title and three straight appearances in the NCAA Tournament. In Self's first season in Champaign, the Illini advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight for the first time since 1989.

In 11 seasons as a head coach, Self has compiled an overall record of 231-114 (.670), including a 13-6 mark in NCAA Tournament play. He is a four-time finalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year Award (2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003), and he was named National Coach of the Year by The Sporting News in 2000.

Prior to his stint at Illinois, Self coached at Tulsa from 1998 to 2000, where he led the Golden Hurricane to a record of 74-27 in three seasons, including NCAA Tournament appearances in 1999 and 2000. Tulsa went 32-5 in 2000, setting a school single-season record for victories, and the Golden Hurricane made the NCAA Elite Eight that year.

Self began his head coaching career at Oral Roberts, where he resurrected the Golden Eagles' program. Before Self took over the reigns, ORU had compiled the worst record in the program's history with a 5-22 mark in 1992-93. Although Self 's first ORU team managed just six victories in 1993-94, the win total increased to 10 the following year. In his third season at the helm, Self guided the Golden Eagles to an 18-9 record. In 1996-97, ORU registered a 21-7 mark and made the school's first postseason tournament appearance since 1983-84, receiving an invitation to the NIT.

Prior to his appointment at ORU, Self spent seven seasons as an assistant coach at Oklahoma State University. He originally joined the Cowboys' staff for the 1986-87 season and spent the next four years working under then-OSU head coach Leonard Hamilton. In the three seasons prior to his arrival at ORU, Self served as an assistant on Eddie Sutton's staff at Oklahoma State.

During Self's seven seasons with the Cowboys, the team advanced to postseason play a total of five times, including three trips to the NCAA Tournament (1991-93) and two straight appearances in the National Invitation Tournament (1989-90). OSU posted a cumulative 128-88 record during his tenure, including a mark of 72-25 (.742) in his final three seasons.

Before Oklahoma State, Self spent the 1985-86 season on Larry Brown's coaching staff at Kansas. While Self was at KU, the Jayhawks registered a 35-4 record and advanced to the NCAA Final Four.

A native of Edmond, Okla., Self competed collegiately at Oklahoma State, where he was a four-year letterwinner from 1982 to 1985 and was an All-Big Eight freshman selection in 1982. He received his bachelor's degree in business in 1985 and a master's degree in athletic administration in 1989, both from Oklahoma State.

He and his wife, Cindy, have two children: daughter Lauren and son Tyler.

Self was named the eighth head coach in Kansas basketball history on April 21, 2003.

— Courtesy of KU Athletic Corp.

COACHING HISTORY
1985-86 — University of Kansas
• Served as an assistant coach at the University of Kansas under Larry Brown, helping the Jayhawks to a 35-4 record
• Also coached the Kansas junior varsity team that same year and helped lead the squad to a 12-7 record.

1987-93 — Oklahoma State University
• Was an assistant coach at his alma mater, Oklahoma State University, for seven years
• OSU had an overall 128-88 record during that time span
• During his seven- year stint, OSU advanced to postseason play five times, including three times to the NCAA Tournament and two appearances in the NIT.

1994-97 — Oral Roberts University
• Appointed head coach at Oral Roberts University on March 8, 1993
• Registered an overall coaching record of 56-53 in four seasons, but over the last two seasons compiled a 39-16 mark
• Led ORU to an appearance in the NIT in 1996-97
• Following a loss to Tulsa on Jan. 11, 1997, ORU won 12 of its final 13 regular season games in the 1996-97 season.

1998-2000 — University of Tulsa
• Named head coach at the University of Tulsa on July 3, 1997
• Despite a season of adversity, Self led his first Tulsa team to a 19-12 record and a third place 9-5 record in the Western Athletic Conference's Pacific Division
• Tulsa won 10 of its final 14 games, with the only losses coming at the hands of #15 TCU twice and #20 New Mexico, by a combined total of six points, and a 10-point road loss at Hawaii
• His 19-12 record was the fifth-best mark for a first-year head coach among the 26 head basketball coaches in Tulsa school history
*Named the Don Haskins WAC Coach of the Year after leading Tulsa to its second straight regular-season conference championship with a 12-2 record
• Led Tulsa to a 32-5 record and Elite Eight appearance in 2000, setting a school record for victories in a season. John and Nellie Wooden National Coach of the Year in 2000
• Named National Coach of the Year by The Sporting News.

2000-02 — University of Illinois
• Named Illinois' 15th head coach on June 9, 2000
• Led Illini to 2001 & 2002 Big Ten Championships, Illinois' first back-to-back title seasons since 1951-52
• Second-most victories in school history with 27-8 record in 2001 and third-most wins with 26 in 2002
• Earned a No. 1 seed in the 2001 NCAA Tournament and led Illinois to an Elite Eight appearance
• Led Illinois to a Sweet Sixteen appearance at the 2002 NCAA Tournament
• Second coach in Big Ten history, and first since 1912 to win Big Ten titles in the first two seasons in the league
• Just the ninth coach in Big Ten history to win a Big Ten title in his first season in the league
• Just the fourth Big Ten coach since 1950 to defeat every other conference school in his first season.