KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Kansas Basketball coach Bill Self commented on the status of the Big 12 nationally and what having three-straight teams making the national title game does for the conference...
"I think it's hard to say that you're the best if you don't actually produce it when it counts the most. And so we've been, like, the RPI or the net, I think we've been the top league in the country six of the last seven, something like that. And five of those years we didn't have anything to show for it at the end of the day. I do think that it means a lot. I know with us personally we've had a large number of very good teams that basically was in the game and had a possibility of winning a national championship and didn't get it done. So for us, I think we owed it not only to our school but also to our league to actually deliver on those opportunities. And we were able to do so this year and of course Baylor was able to do so last year. I think, and Tech came a jump shot away from doing it in the prior tournament. I think those type of finishes are what elevates a league to being thought of to be really, really good regular season, but that can be thought of to be the best overall."