ATLANTA — Kansas basketball head coach Bill Self is now the Jayhawks’ all-time winningest head coach after the No. 1 Jayhawks’ 77-69 victory against Michigan State in Atlanta.

This win, which came during the latest edition of the Champions Classic, gives Self 591 in his 22nd season at Kansas. He passes Phog Allen, who collected 590 wins in 39 seasons at KU. Self had tied Allen at 590 wins recently with a Jayhawks (3-0) win inside Allen Fieldhouse against a ranked UNC team.

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“It’s nice, and I guess I’d rather have it than not have it, but that to me doesn’t really drive me in any way, shape or form,” said Self, who on this topic has recently routinely praised Allen and the program more than himself. “I’d much rather figure out a way to just get better through it and I’ve always thought if you take care of your business all of those things just take care of themselves at the end.”

Self added: “But let’s not get this twisted, OK? … The building’s named after him. He recruited Wilt (Chamberlain). He got Allen Fieldhouse built. He won a national championship in ’52. … He recruited and coached the two best big men in the world. There’s a lot of things that he did in his time that goes unnoticed because it wasn’t near as popular as what it is now in recognizing it.”

Kansas’ regular season continues Saturday with a home game against Oakland. The month of November also includes a home game against UNC-Wilmington, neutral-site game in Las Vegas against Duke and home game against Furman. However many wins Self compiles during that stretch, and as the season progresses, will only make it that much more difficult for anyone to ever catch or break the record he’s just set.

Self’s career as the head coach at Kansas began with the 2003-04 season. Amid the many victories he’s captured over the course of that time, he’s won numerous Big 12 Conference championships. He’s also won a pair of NCAA titles.

“Coach Self changed my life,” graduate guard Dajuan Harris Jr. said. “So, all the credit goes to him. I just want to be there for him. He was there for me. And I just want to win basketball games. All he cares about his winning. I care about winning. So, I just want to keep winning games.”

Jordan Guskey covers University of Kansas Athletics at The Topeka Capital-Journal. He is the National Sports Media Association’s sportswriter of the year for the state of Kansas for 2022. Contact him at jmguskey@gannett.com or on Twitter at @JordanGuskey.

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