Bill Self, the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball head coach, provides a personal tour of his office adjacent to Allen Fieldhouse, revealing the stories behind the photographs and collectibles.

Subtly nestled on a shelf in Bill Self’s vast and vivid office is a photo among the images of family and friends. Among several other pictures, this one is of Self and his wife, Cindy, bookending a man he casually refers to as Garth — better known as Garth Brooks.

“Cindy went to high school with Garth,” he said, “and I played on the same softball team with him for seven years or whatever.”

That was in Stillwater, Oklahoma, during Self’s playing and assistant coaching career at Oklahoma State, where he met thencheerleader Cindy and Brooks lived in his dorm for three years.

Their group of friends tended to tease Brooks about his seemingly inauspicious career aspirations. At one point, Self recalled, they donned mock Tshirts that said “Garth Brooks World Tour” long before that ever seemed possible.

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