
It took Kansas coach Bill Self just 35 seconds to burn his first timeout Monday night. I screwed it up,'' he would explain later, "because I should have taken a timeout five seconds into the game after our first turnover.'' Instead, he waited until the Jayhawks had turned it over twice and let Toledo score an easy bucket before calling his team over to the sideline. No. 16 Kansas responded in fine enough fashion to pull out a 93-83 victory, and deal the Rockets their first loss of the season. But it wasn't enough to stop Self from spending about 15 minutes in his post-game news conference lamenting the sorry state of the Jayhawks defense.
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