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.
Coach K: Press conference| Post game| Laying down| Crying meme
Press Conference:
Krzyzewski announced that the 2021-22 season would be his last and assistant Jon Scheyer would replace him.
With 1,202 wins, 13 ACC championships and five national titles, he is generally viewed as the greatest coach in college basketball history along with John Wooden, the legendary UCLA leader who won 10 national titles during a 12-year stretch.
For Krzyzewski, Saturday marked the end of a 47-year career that included 42 seasons at Duke.
Post game:
In 1975, Krzyzewski secured his first head coaching job at Army, where he remained for five seasons before he was hired at Duke prior to the 1980-81 campaign. After finishing under .500 in league play in three consecutive seasons at Duke, Krzyzewski was on the hot seat.
But he steered the program to the national title game in his sixth season, commencing a reign that would span across generations.
Laying down:
Roy Williams, the former North Carolina coach who retired last year, punched the air with celebratory fists.
The Tar Heels, a No. 8 seed, spoiled the Coach K narrative but added to their own remarkable one, which two months ago seemed to be veering away from the NCAA tournament.
Krzyzewski got his Division I job more than 10 years before the NCAA adopted a three-point line in 1986 and he thrived all the way through the one-and-done era. The Duke team that reached the Final Four this season was the youngest team of Krzyzewski’s tenure.
Crying meme:
The legendary coach, who had a ton of his former players at the game, was celebrated after the game on the court where he won so many games and built one of the best college basketball programs of all time.
But you know what happened before that celebration? We got to see lots of sad Duke fans at the end of the game and then also in the 20-minute break between the final whistle
