“That was fun. That was a toughness win,” Self, KU’s 22nd-year coach, said after the Jayhawks claimed their second marquee victim from Tobacco Road this season. KU improved to 6-0 by overcoming a flagrant 2 ejection that sent senior preseason All-American Hunter Dickinson to the locker room courtesy of an ejection with 10 1/2 minutes to play.

Bill Self showered praise on KJ Adams on Tuesday night after the 6-foot-7 senior forward suffocated Duke standout Cooper Flagg on defense while chipping in eight points in the Jayhawks’ Vegas Showdown victory over the Blue Devils at T-Mobile Arena in Nevada.

Self on Friday reiterated that one of the Jayhawk players turned in one of the best individual performances during Feast Week: senior forward KJ Adams, who had eight points, three blocks, three steals, three assists and two rebounds while also playing suffocating defense on Duke sensation Cooper Flagg in a 33-minute stint on Tuesday.