Asked to comment on which players earn the most minutes, Kansas coach Bill Self said that most bench players believe they have to make a great play to get additional minutes, though often that's not the best way.

"When they're in the game, the (score) differential either goes up or down," Self said. "That's what determines if they stay in or not."

It sounds like Self is using a basic form of the statistic known as plus/minus to help determine which players stay in the game.

Plus/minus is a statistic that measures how a team performs when a given player is on the floor versus when he is on the bench.