Tuesday night was a low point in the Bill Self era at Kansas, as the Jayhawks were handed a 91-57 defeat at the hands of BYU—one of their worst losses in program history.
The 34-point loss is tied for the largest margin of defeat in Bill Self’s time in Lawrence and is the third-worst defeat in program history, according to ESPN.
KU has now lost back-to-back games in conference play for the first time this season and is reeling at the worst time possible, losing six of their last nine games with five games left in the season.
This isn’t something that Kansas fans are used to dealing with, and neither are the players who honed their skills under Self in previous seasons.
After the blowout loss—which dropped Kansas to 8-7 and tied for sixth in the Big 12 standings—several former Jayhawks took to Twitter to vent their frustrations.
“Put the managers in. Maybe they care,” Cole Aldrich said.
“This is shocking to watch…,” shared Mario Little.
They’re not wrong, either, as Kansas’ performance was so bad that it has Self feeling like the team needs to simply get away from each other for a bit
“We need to get away from each other, I’ll tell you that point blank,” Self said after the loss. “And I thought this would be a great opportunity to be a team bonding situation. But it hadn’t been. And it hadn’t been a good trip and guys need to get home. We’ll get home probably around five o’clock tonight or in the morning, and get away for a day. And then let’s regroup on Thursday and start looking at some things that we can do to be a more connected and a more intangible oriented team.”
Kansas will be back in action against Oklahoma State on Saturday afternoon, and desperately needs to get things figured out with games against Texas Tech, Houston, and Arizona all still remaining before the Big 12 Tournament.
