Kansas head coach Bill Self and assistant Kurtis Townsend congratulate forward Perry Ellis (34) after his Senior Day speech following the Jayhawks’ 85-78 win over the Cyclones.

Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self on Monday was named Associated Press Big 12 Coach of the Year for the second straight season and fifth time in 13 years.

An AP media panel also voted KU senior forward Perry Ellis a unanimous All-Big 12 first team pick and junior guard Frank Mason III a second-team selection. Junior guard Wayne Selden Jr., and sophomore guard Devonté Graham were listed as honorable mention.

“Certainly I understand all that is a reflection of having a good team and the guys win and certainly nobody’s had better players than we’ve had,” said Self, who received 12 of 20 votes for top coach after the Jayhawks wrapped up their 12th straight regular-season conference crown.

“It is nice. I certainly appreciate it,” added Self, who also won the AP coaching award in 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2015. He is 379-82 at KU, including a 206-9 record in Allen Fieldhouse.

The Big 12 coaches named Texas Tech’s Tubby Smith coach of the year on Sunday.

“If they (coaches) had a co-coach of the year, I think ‘Huggs’ would definitely be the other guy,” Self said of West Virginia’s Bob Huggins. “I don’t know if they fell out of the Top 15 the entire year.”

The AP first team: Ellis, Iowa State’s Georges Niang and Monté Morris, Texas’ Isaiah Taylor and league player of the year Buddy Hield of Oklahoma. A tie placed six players on the AP second team: KU’s Mason, plus Baylor’s Rico Gathers and Taurean Prince, West Virginia’s Jaysean Payne and Devin Williams and OU’s Ryan Spangler. ISU’s Deonte Burton was chosen the league’s newcomer of the year.

Ellis honored: KU’s Ellis on Monday was named second-team All-America by USA Today. The first team: Hield, North Carolina’s Brice Johnson, Utah’s Jakob Poeltl, Kentucky’s Tyler Ulis and Michigan State’s Denzel Valentine. Ellis was joined on the second team by Duke’s Grayson Allen, Virginia’s Malcolm Brogdon, Indiana’s Yogi Ferrell and Kentucky’s Jamal Murray. Niang made third team.

Still on top: KU is No. 1 in both the AP and USA Today Top 25 polls for the second straight week. KU received all but two first-place votes in the AP poll. Michigan State landed the others. Villanova was third, followed by Virginia, Xavier, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Oregon, West Virginia and Indiana. Iowa State was 21st, Baylor 22nd and Texas 23rd.

Overall top seed likely?: Analysts say the Jayhawks will have the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament no matter what happens at the Big 12 tournament. KU opens against either K-State or Oklahoma State at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Sprint Center.

“This is probably the most confident I’ve been going into the tournament that if we perform well, then we’ll be a 1-seed,” Self said. “I sense that we put ourselves in a pretty good position, and I know a lot of things can happen, but going into the tournament, I don’t know if we’ve been on this solid of footing, at least with what I feel our seed will be going in.”

Gulf Coast a winner: Former KU assistant coach Joe Dooley’s Florida Gulf Coast team earned a tourney bid by beating Stetson, 80-78, in overtime in the Atlantic Sun final on Sunday.

“I watched every possession. Yeah, really happy for Joe,” Self said. “That was one of those games where free throws could have kept him from going to the NCAA Tournament, but they overcame it, and of course the play that freshman made at the end was spectacular, and really, really happy for Joe.”

Freshman forward Zach Johnson (19 points) blocked the shot of Stetson’s Divine Miles on the final play of OT.