Michael William Krzyzewski is an American college basketball coach. He has served as head coach at Duke University since 1980, where he has led the Blue Devils to five national titles, 12 Final Four, 15 ACC tournament championships, and 13 ACC regular season titles. Today we will discuss about Coach K: How many championships has won| Career| Net Worth.
Coach K: How many championships has won| Career| Net Worth
Krzyzewski has also coached the United States national team, which has led to them winning three gold medals at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics. He was the head coach of the gold medal winning U.S. team at the 2010 and 2014 FIBA World Cups and the assistant coach of the “dream team” at the 1992 Olympics.
Krzyzewski was a point guard in the Army from 1966 to 1969 under Coach Bob Knight. From 1975 to 1980, he was the head coach of his alma mater. He was twice inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001 for his individual coaching career and in 2010 as part of the “Dream Team” mass incorporation. He was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006, and the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in 2009.
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Duke |
| Conference | ACC |
| Record | 1,123–307 (.785) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | February 13, 1947 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1966–1969 | Army |
| Position(s) | Point guard, shooting guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1974–1975 | Indiana (assistant) |
| 1975–1980 | Army |
| 1980–present | Duke |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 1,196–366 (.766) |
| Tournaments | 97–30 (NCAA Division I) 2–2 (NIT) 63–21 (ACC) |
How many championships has won
Krzyzewski is one of the sport’s most decorated coaches: he has 15 ACC tournament championships, 13 regular-season championships, 12 Final Four appearances, five national titles, and 1,170 wins and counting.
- Five-time NCAA Champion – 1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, 2015
- Two-time FIBA World Cup Gold Medal winner – 2010, 2014
- Two-time FIBA World Cup Bronze Medal winner – 1990, 2006
- College Basketball Hall of Fame inductee (class of 2006)
- United States Olympic Hall of Fame inductee (class of 2009 – with the “Dream Team”)
- Twelve ACC Regular Season Championships – 1986, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2010
- Fifteen ACC Tournament Championships – 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2019
- Award presented at the United States Military Academy named the “Coach Krzyzewski Teaching Character Through Sports Award”
- Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1995.
Career
He was discharged from active duty in 1974 with the rank of captain, and began his coaching career as an assistant to Knight’s staff with the Indiana Hoosiers during his historic 1974–75 season. After a year with Indiana, Krzyzewski returned as head coach at West Point at age 28; In his five seasons, he led Army cadets to a 73–59 (.553) record and up to NIT berths in 1978.
On February 13, 2010, Krzyzewski coached Duke in his 1,000th game as head coach. On March 20, 2011, Krzyzewski won his 900th game, becoming the second of three Division I men’s basketball coaches to reach 900 basketball victories, the other two being Jim Boehm at Syracuse and his head coach at the Army, Bob Knight.
During his long tenure at Duke, Krzyzewski has been given the opportunity to coach in the NBA at least five times. The first came after the 1990 season when he made the Blue Devils a third consecutive Final Four.
Net Worth
Coach K has the highest annual salary ($9.7M) in college basketball. He could have earned more in the NBA – as recently as 2010, when the Nets reportedly offered him $12-15 million. In any event, the all-time winning coach in men’s college basketball has justified his net worth of $45 million.
Salary numbers from the 1980s and 1990s are hard to find (and some schools simply didn’t make that information public), but Coach Kay was hired in 1980 for $48,000. By the early 1990s, he was also earning $200,000 in shoe advertising. And top coaches at the time—including Krzyzewski’s former coach and mentor Bob Knight—were earning between $500,000 and $750,000 a year, including salaries, bonuses and endorsement deals.
