A look at the court for this week's Battle 4 Atlantis, courtesy collegesportstown.com

Bill Self live from Allen Fieldhouse previewing the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament:

• Self on the small setting of the court in the Bahamas: I got a picture of the court today and it looked pretty cool. Says it’s in a large ball room and seats 3-4 thousand.

A look at the court for this week's Battle 4 Atlantis, courtesy collegesportstown.com

• Self on Frank Mason: He’s a PG size and you can list him as a PG but he’s never played point. He’s a sponge, though, and he’s so unselfish. He cares nothing about scoring, but we do want him in attack mode. He’s done a nice job so far and was really good vs. Duke.

• Self on the Atlantis field: The field’s good. Wake Forest is 5-0, USC & Villanova have talent and could be tournament teams. Tennessee’s definitely a tourney team, Iowa’s definitely a tourney team and Xavier should be as well. Said he saw where it was ranked as first or second in terms of collection of talent of all the preseason tourneys.

This year's bracket. (All times Eastern)

• Self said the Wake team under Jeff Bzdelik does not resemble the Colorado teams he coached. At least not through first five games. Wake Forest more conventional than those CU teams. Wake can score inside and out.

• Self: We haven’t taken that many guarded looks, which has been a good thing. Mason, Tharpe Embiid and Selden are four best passers on team right now.

• Three-point shooting needs to improve. Self says team hasn’t been very aggressive shooting them. Self: I can understand why they haven’t. We’ve been good attacking the lane and good in transition, but I know there are going to be games where teams zone us and we’re gonna have to step up and make shots.

• The way KU plays, they’ll have, at most, three three-point shooters in the game. Self: Andrew White, Brannen Greene and Conner Frankamp are best three shooters, but if you play all three of those guys, you’re taking minutes from someone else. Those guys could be good, especially shooting it, in spurts.

• Self said statistically the Jayhawks have been good rebounding but he doesn’t see it as much in practice. Not a naturally gifted box out team. One reason could be the fact that teams are so scared of KU’s transition that they don’t attack the glass as hard and that makes KU look better in defensive rebounding numbers.

• Self on individual defensive grades: If you don’t look strictly at stats and what the guy who they’re guarding does, you look at these: Does he play to scouting report, can he use length to contest shots, can he make plays away from his own man, off the ball (Mario Chalmers), does he lock down his man and frustrate him (Travis Releford)…

• Self says he thinks Wiggins can become a guy that KU puts on other team’s best scorer down the stretch when it counts.

• Self says depth can be a little bit overrated but it can help a ton this week in the Bahamas.

• Self on KU’s defensive strengths: Not great at team defense yet and no lockdown guys on perimeter or in the post. Jack of all trades, master of none is the phrase he used.

• Self on the KU volleyball success and their game at Allen Fieldhouse: They’ve had a great year and they deserve support. Hope people turn out Tuesday night to watch them play Denver.

• Self again was asked about “Home of the Chiefs” during national anthem. Reiterates that he’s not a fan because it’s disrespectful to men and women of military and “We’re not the Chiefs.”

• Self on player free time in Bahamas: We’ll give ’em some time on Wednesday and Sunday and Tuesday night when they get there, they can hang out. it’s a business trip, though, and they’re not concerned about anything other than winning games.

• Self on if going somewhere tropical is different: Oh yeah. Warm weather’s always good when you live somewhere you don’t have it. I think there’s something nice about going somewhere warm, where you can hang out outside, walk around wearing shorts and all that. Doesn’t think the climate has much to do with becoming a team or outcome of the games.

• Self on what he hopes defensive philosophy will become: One shot or less per possession; low FG percentage and toughness. Because teams that do well at the end when it counts usually hang their hats on those things.