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Kansas' Bill Self blasts player after dismal dunk

By Alex Butler

LAWRENCE, Kan., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Bill Self is all class.

The Kansas basketball coach criticized one of his players Wednesday after he dunked with one second remaining in a 16-point game.

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Sophomore Brannen Greene was the subject of Self's postgame sound bite that will stick with the Jayhawks in the locker room all season.

Self began the postgame show by saying: "I'd like to first apologize to the K-State team and their program, coaches, players, for the unsportsmanlike act that one of our players did at the end of the game that was totally classless. I guarantee it'll never happen again."

On the play, Greene receives the ball on the right elbow with about four seconds remaining. Kansas State players show no interest in defending the play, as they huddle above the paint. Green the dribbles behind the team and slams it home.

"Brannen Greene, we've put up with him doing some stuff in the past, but that was probably the biggest [expletive] move I've ever had a player do during a game," Self said, according to the Topeka-Capital Journal. "To dunk the ball like that when the other team...even their players are going, 'How disrespectful to the game.'

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"It certainly showed unbelievably poor sportsmanship."

Greene tallied eight points in six minutes of the 77-59 victory against Kansas State.

"I'm so [angry] right now that we represented the way we did at the end," Self said.

Greene has been suspended twice in two seasons at Kansas.

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