KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas absorbed the biggest blows that short-handed Kansas State could land, played without its star big man for the second straight game and won its Big 12 Tournament semifinal comfortably.
You'd think that would be enough to make coach Bill Self happy.
"I thought they played better than us," he insisted after an 83-67 victory Friday night, "but I thought a lot of it was self-inflected. We couldn't guard them and offensively we weren't very smart.
"If I sleep two hours tonight," Self added, "it'll be more than I probably think I should.