Mike Krzyzewski you will have one more opportunity to expand on one of the most important legacies in collegiate sports. As reported by Jeff Goodman, Stadium, Duke’s coach will retire at the end of the 2021-22 season.
“I think there is a light at the end of the tunnel and I think it is here. No matter when it happens, it will happen. I can’t focus on that. I am focused on the team, “said the 74-year-old coach during an interview last February.
Added that Jon Scheyer, who is an assistant coach for the Blue Devils and played for the university between 2006 and 2010, ands the leading candidate to take over as head coach when Krzyzewski leaves office.
The news of the retirement of “Coach K” comes at the end of a disappointing campaign for Duke. The team finished the year 13-11, was eliminated in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament and failed to reach March Madness. Also, since 2015 the Blue Devils have not been able to pass the Elite Eight round.
History of college basketball
Para Krzyzewski the 2021-22 campaign will represent the 42nd campaign in charge of Duke (previously led Army for five years), which makes him the second coach with the most time at the helm of a collegiate team, just behind Jim Boeheim’s 46 years as a Syracuse coach.
For more than four decades of uninterrupted work, Coach K has amassed 1,170 wins (NCAA mark) and he is one of two coaches who have surpassed 1,000 victories in college basketball (the other coach is Boeheim, with 1,083).
In addition, his tenure with Duke has been full of success. Since 1980 the Blue Devils have been ACC champions 16 times, have reached 12 Final Fours and they became NCAA champions five times.
Those successes have also occurred internationally. Krzyzewski led the United States to three Olympic Games gold medals (Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016) and won the two-time FIBA World Cup championship (2010-14).
