KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self never has been one to sulk. That would be “soft,” after all, a concept he holds in contempt. But before he coaxed the Jayhawks to the 2008 national title, there were times he felt sensations ranging from simply deficient to “I can’t catch a break at the right time.” In the most compelling of fashions with an overtime win over Memphis in that championship game, though, Self purged the two first-round knockouts his teams had suffered early in his KU tenure and doused any lingering stigma of four Elite Eight losses at three different scho…
