KU’s ‘energizer’ Council didn’t want extra day off, but Jayhawks needed him rested for what’s ahead

SAN DIEGO — Kansas had an unusually accomplished water boy at Sunday’s practice back in Lawrence. Fifth-year senior guard Melvin Council Jr., given an unexpected day off by head coach Bill Self, found other ways to make himself useful: besides handing out water, of course, he was “rebounding, clapping, keeping the energy alive and stuff like that,” he said on Thursday. As Self explained on Sunday, he thought it was in his point guard’s best interest to get an additional day of rest –beyond the day without a game he had already received on Saturday because KU lost in...