06-03-2021, 12:12 AM
Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, 'Coach K,' will retire after upcoming season
Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski will retire after this coming season,ending a wildly successful run that began more than 40 years ago and included more than 1,000 wins and five national championships.
Krzyzewski, 74, is the winningest coach in college basketball history with 1,170 victories, with all but 73 coming with the Blue Devils.
After three rebuilding seasons to start his tenure, which began in 1980, Krzyzewski led Duke to the men’s NCAA tournament in every year but one from 1984 through 2019. Duke went 13-11 during the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 year and failed to reach the tournament for the first time since the 1994-95 season, which Krzyzewski largely missed due to exhaustion and a lingering back injury.
The Blue Devils were the national runner-up in 1986, made back-to-back Final Four trips in 1988 and 1989, again finished second in 1990 and then won back-to-back national championships in 1991 and 1992. Duke would win titles in 2001, 2010 and 2015.
Overall, Krzyzewski is tied with John Wooden for the most Final Four appearances with 12 and is second to Wooden with five national championships. All of Duke’s Final Four berths under Krzyzewski came with at least a 64-team tournament bracket. (The men’s tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985 and to 68 teams in 2011.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc...508620002/
