Early in the process when Kansas put out a statement that strongly disagreed with the NCAA’s Notice of Allegations, the organization made it clear to Kansas that critiquing it or the penalties it levied at KU stemming from the FBI’s investigation into college basketball would be held against the basketball program.

Since then, coach Bill Self and the athletic department have been steadfast in not saying anything about its case on the record. With that in mind, Self was hesitant Thursday, a day following the school’s self-imposed penalties on itself, to talk specifics or give his opinion outside of agreeing with what’s been decided.

“I thought from a responsibility standpoint, the institution certainly, you know, showed institutional responsibility in what went down,” Self said following KU’s 94-63 exhibition win against Pittsburg State. “We can’t get into any facts about anything, but (assistant coach Kurtis Townsend) and I both are aligned with what the school has done, and we support it. So we think it was the appropriate thing to do to show, basically, the responsibility that we need to. I don’t like it. But I don’t know that anybody would like sitting out.”

When asked about the timeline — now five years in — Self responded: “I’m not going to talk about anything about anything. Because we’ve been told not to.”