Jayhawks begin Bill’s boot camp

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Kansas held its first practice of the season Monday — sort of.

Kansas coach Bill Self’s boot camp — a two-week series of practices that emphasize heavy conditioning — began at 6 a.m. Monday.

Boot camp traditionally marks the beginning of the basketball season for the Jayhawks, but this year they’ve already practiced for 10 days and played three exhibition games.

Kansas took advantage of an NCAA rule that allows teams to travel out of the country for exhibition games during Labor Day weekend once every four years. The Jayhawks practiced for nearly two weeks in Lawrence before traveling to Ottawa, Canada, where they beat three Canadian college teams.

But those practices weren’t as intense as what the players will face this week. Basketballs don’t make many appearances at boot camp. Self is more concerned with running drills to get his players in adequate shape.

Players often come away from these practices with horror stories about how tough they are. Seven of the 15 players on Kansas’ roster — junior college transfers Mario Little and Tyrone Appleton and freshmen Marcus Morris, Markieff Morris, Tyshawn Taylor, Travis Releford and Quintrell Thomas — are attending their first boot camp.

Boot camp will run through next Friday. The Jayhawks will then have a week to recover before Late Night in the Phog on Oct. 17.

— — Edited by Andy Greenhaw

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