Coach K Michael William Krzyzewski is an American former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at Duke University from 1980 to 2022, during which he led the Blue Devils to five national titles, 13 Final Fours, 15 ACC tournament championships, and 13 ACC regular season titles.
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First loss:
Mike Krzyzewski is the winningest coach in men’s college basketball history, a record-book fixture with rings on his fingers and fingerprints all over the game, a revered Hall of Famer — and on Saturday night in New Orleans, the North Carolina Tar Heels cared about none of that.
They cared not for the hype around a Final Four matchup for the ages, nor for the spotlights that illuminated it, nor the deafening noise that greeted it.
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Krzyzewski, meanwhile, walked stoically down the sideline, and shook the hand of first-year UNC coach Hubert Davis, the architect of the Tar Heel turnaround. Minutes later, Krzyzewski, with his face unmoved, and players crying behind him, walked down a Superdome tunnel hand-in-hand with his wife.
He had surely dreamed of walking off into a proverbial sunset, his fingers awaiting another ring, championship tears in his eyes. Instead, he climbed aboard the back of a cart, and rode off into a dark New Orleans night.
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Coach K vs. UNC record
Mike Krzyzewski’s record against North Carolina is 50-47. The legendary coach began his coaching career with Duke in 1980 and has led the Blue Devils to five national titles, 13 Final Fours and 15 ACC championships.
They beat their archrival Duke, 81-77, in a national semifinal and sent Coach K into retirement.
North Carolina beat Duke in Krzyzewski’s final home game, at Cameron Indoor Stadium on March 5, before ushering the Blue Devils out of the tournament on Saturday. This was the first time these storied rivals, separated by less than 11 miles, had ever met in the NCAA Tournament.
