Kansas Basketball: Top 10 four-year players under Bill Self
By Chris Taylor
The fifth best senior for Bill Self
No. 5 Tyshawn Taylor
Tyshawn Taylor saved his best for last, and boy was it fun to watch. Another senior on the runner-up Jayhawk squad when they lost to the Wildcats in the National Championship game in 2012.
Taylor was practically a starter from start to finish at Kansas. He started all but 19 games throughout his career.
His senior season he simply blew up as a national name. He totaled 647 points and 186 assists in 2012 alone. Taylor finished his career with 1,580 points, 575 assists, and 172 steals. Taylor averaged 16.6 points per game his final season in Lawrence.
A player that sometimes goes overlooked, he was everything Bill Self wanted him to be as the leader of a runner-up Jayhawks squad.
As seniors often do for coach self, Taylor went from a valuable commodity to the quintesential leader of the team.
Taylor took pride in his role each season, no matter what it was that the coaching staff had him doing, he gave it his all.
His senior year he was a third-team AP All-American. He led the overachieving Jayhawks all the way to the National Championship while becoming one of the greatest point guards to play at KU.