Kansas Jayhawks men’s basketball coach Bill Self and senior center Hunter Dickinson had a lot to talk about during Thursday afternoon’s Thanksgiving Day dinner for KU’s basketball players, coaches and family members.

“That was fun. That was a toughness win,” Self, KU’s 22nd-year coach, said after the Jayhawks claimed their second marquee victim from Tobacco Road this season. KU improved to 6-0 by overcoming a flagrant 2 ejection that sent senior preseason All-American Hunter Dickinson to the locker room courtesy of an ejection with 10 1/2 minutes to play.

It also got physical in the second half when Jayhawks star big man Hunter Dickinson and Duke forward Maliq Brown got into it during a rebound play. After forcing Dickinson to miss a shot from the shaded area,