That story is obviously a fabrication. KU players never say mean things. And in fact, "That does bother me a lot that anybody would say anything like that, and more importantly, that anybody would report (players) saying anything like that."
"I don't think our team has the kind of character to do stuff like that"
Yeah. Right.
It's nice of Chalmers to confirm that Self tells his players to lie to the media.
"There were comments coming off the KU bench that my staff was witness to ... from wishing him bodily harm to a comment about, 'Hey, where's your green card?'" Fitzgerald said during "The Overdrive" online show that airs after the TV show. "Setting aside the fact that's racist, look KU players, he's from the United States. Puerto Rico is part of the United States. You don't need a green card."
Kansas coach Bill Self responded Monday morning.
"I did hear about that, and that flat-out (ticks) me off, because that did not occur," Self said. "We have coaches who sit between the players. I will ask my players to make sure, but I'm sure that did not occur.
"That does bother me a lot that anybody would say anything like that, and more importantly, that anybody would report (players) saying anything like that."
The four Kansas players who spoke the media Monday — Sherron Collins, Cole Aldrich, Brady Morningstar and Tyrel Reed — said they didn't hear anything of the sort.
"I don't think our team has the kind of character to do stuff like that," said Reed, who played 19 minutes, many of them guarding Clemente. "Nobody said they were yelling or anything like that, so I don't take anything out of that."
"I don't know anything about that," Morningstar said.
