Self has hard time starting ‘guys who are late to tutoring’

Kansas sophomore Landen Lucas drives for two points against Rider center Matt Lopez in the Jayhawks 87-60 win over Rider.

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Sophomore Landen Lucas (career best nine points, four boards, two steals) was in the starting lineup for this first time in his career Monday night in Kansas University’s 87-60 victory over Rider.

He was joined by Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, Perry Ellis, Wayne Selden Jr., and Frank Mason III.

“Yeah I did,” KU coach Bill Self said, asked if he liked the starting lineup. “The whole thing is, if everybody was responsible off the court, we’d probably have more of the same starting lineup every time. And I don’t mean doing anything bad, but we’ve got to tighten some things up. I see a lot of slippage off the court and I think there’s a correlation to being responsible off it, too.

“I’d like to see us settle in on a starting five, but I have a hard time starting guys who are late to tutoring,” he added, not naming names. “I can’t do it and that’s kind of where that is right now. “Hopefully we’ll tighten some things up because if we let them go now, I know it’s going to be something that will haunt us later. We’ve got to eliminate those things. We’ve got to become more responsible as a group.”