Self taken to hospital, didn’t journey with Jayhawks to Colorado

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Kansas head coach Bill Self seems in the direction of his bench throughout an NCAA school basketball sport in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025.

Kansas males’s basketball coach Bill Self was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Monday and didn’t journey with the Jayhawks to their upcoming highway sport in Colorado, KU Athletics introduced in an announcement.

The assertion stated Self “felt under the weather earlier today and, out of an abundance of caution, was taken to LMH Health where he received IV fluids.”

Self was beforehand hospitalized on March 8, 2023, when he skilled chest tightness and steadiness points, and needed to miss the Jayhawks’ postseason run consequently. More not too long ago, on July 24, 2025, he had two stents inserted at Lawrence Memorial Hospital on account of what KU known as “concerning symptoms.”

Self was launched from that almost all current hospitalization after simply two days. He stated in August that he didn’t take into account stepping away as a consequence of well being causes and that docs had suggested him to make enhancements in his weight loss program and train.

He has additionally stated up to now that he underwent an aortic valve alternative within the fall of 2022, and coached with a peripherally inserted central catheter, or PICC line, throughout a current season.

Self is in his twenty third season because the coach at Kansas and thirty third as a head coach total. The announcement didn’t say who will function appearing coach in his stead when KU faces Colorado on the CU Events Center on Tuesday evening.

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Written By Henry Greenstein

Henry is the sports activities editor on the Lawrence Journal-World and KUsports.com, and serves because the KU beat author whereas managing day-to-day sports activities protection. He beforehand labored as a sports activities reporter at The Bakersfield Californian and is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (B.A., Linguistics) and Arizona State University (M.A., Sports Journalism). Though a local of Los Angeles, he has often been instructed he doesn’t give off “California vibes,” no matter which means.

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