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Bill Self on no-call in loss vs. West Virginia 'We all have a tendency to b**** about officiating'

Matt Connollyby:Matt Connolly•01/04/25•

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West Virginia stunned Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday, holding on for a 62-61 win for its first ever road victory over the Jayhawks. Kansas had a chance to take the lead late, but KJ Adams was unable to get a shot off before the buzzer and his attempt was off the mark, even if it would have been in time.

West Virginia’s Javon Small made a free throw with 1.8 seconds remaining to put WVU ahead. Kansas then threw a pass the length of the court to KJ Adams, who caught it, turned, and thought he was fouled. But there was no call.

Jayhawks head coach Bill Self was asked after the game if he felt like the no-call was correct.

“Ah, I don’t know. You know, when you lose, we all have a tendency to bitch about officiating,” Bill Self said. “And when you win, sometimes you take it for granted that maybe you got a friendly whistle. The play at the end is probably a foul early in the game. But I’m not sure that there are a lot of people that would call a foul on the last possession of the game.”

With that said, Self does feel like a foul should have been called, even if he wasn’t surprised Kansas didn’t get the whistle.

“It’s disappointing to me,” Self said. “I thought he got fouled on the catch and the guy reached, but the whole deal is there’s one second left, you’re probably not going to get that call. So certainly I’m not going to dwell on not getting that call.”

Self added that Kansas has no one to blame but itself. The Jayhawks allowed West Virginia to jump out to an 18-point lead at one point.

Kansas never led, shot poorly from the field and had eight turnovers, to go along with only 10 assists.

“I could probably dwell on us not playing as well as we could’ve played or with the intensity we could’ve played with earlier that maybe put that call to be pointless, because we wouldn’t have been in that situation,” Self said.

Up next, Kansas will face UCF on Sunday in Orlando. The game will tip off at 4 p.m. Kansas is now 2-3 in its past five games and will look to get a winning streak started on Sunday against the Knights.