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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
By Greg Bishop Why this Jayhawks championship team will be remembered as the poster child for one particular time period—the era of asterisks in college sports. Throughout the past 14 years of turbulence and allegations, victories and successes, Kansas coach Bill Self carried his father’s lessons with him. From the last all-of-college-basketball title he won in 2008 through every season before this one, he pulled his beloved Bill Sr. alongside, past a defeat in the last championship game held in New Orleans (’12) to the first NCAA tournament erased by a pandemic (’20). Bill Sr., who died in Ja…