Billy Eugene Self Jr. is an American basketball coach. He is the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Kansas, a position he has held since 2003.
During his 19 seasons as head coach at Kansas, he has led the Jayhawks to 16 Big 12 regular season championships, including an NCAA record 14 consecutive Big 12 regular season championships, some of which were shared (2005–2018).
At the end of the 2021–22 season, Self had the 18th most wins among Division I coaches in NCAA history and 4th among active head coaches.
He is the second-winningest coach in Kansas history, behind only Hall of Famer Phog Allen and is the only coach in Kansas history to lead Kansas to multiple NCAA Tournament National Championships.
Self was the highest-paid NCAA basketball coach for the 2021–22 season. He made $10,184,282 that season. He signed a lifetime contract extension with the Jayhawks in 2021.
In 2022, Self became the seventh coach to win multiple NCAA tournament championships since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
Bill Self Parents: Meet Bill Self Sr. and Margaret Self
Bill Self Sr. and Margaret Self are known to be the parents of the American coach of the basketball team of the University of Kansas.
His father, Bill Sr. was also a basketball coach in a high school. Basketball played a huge role in the lives of Margaret and Bill Sr., who celebrated their 60-year anniversary last July.
Whether it was watching their children play or following their son’s coaching career, the Selfs always seemed to have some tight connection to the game.
Bill Sr. coached and Margaret also played. In fact, she owns the family record for points scored in a single game, besting her son’s career-high by one point.
“She knows ball,” Self said of his mother. “And she loves it. She got 36 in one game back in high school. Of course, her dad was also the coach, so she got to shoot all the free throws.”
Back then, girls’ basketball games were played differently than they are today. In many states, only three players from each team were allowed to cross half-court. And when a player was fouled, the coach could pick any of the six players on the floor to shoot the foul shots.
Self said Margaret, 80, only recently told him about her career night for the Boynton High Cardinals in Muskogee County, Oklahoma. To her credit, she included the part about her father, A.B. Crocker, being the coach and hand-picking her to shoot so many free throws.