The Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Tennessee Volunteers 81–76 in the third-place championship game of the Players Era Festival. However, their star guard Darryn Peterson remains sidelined with a lingering hamstring issue, but when he returns, head coach Bill Self has made his expectations for him crystal clear.

In an exclusive conversation with Jeff Goodman on The Field of 68: After Dark , Self opened up about what really matters moving forward. He said, “Even when Darren comes back, you got to learn how to win ugly. You got to learn how to make other people play bad. We’re not going to win games because he comes back and scores a lot of points. We’ll win games if we defend and rebound and take care of the ball and do the right things.”

Peterson hasn’t played with his team since Ka

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