When former Duke basketball coach Mike Kryzyzewski retired a few years ago, many believed that NIL and the changing landscape of college sports went into it, but he shut that notion down in wake of former Alabama football coach Nick Saban’s criticism of the changes in recent years.
Blue Devil fans typically pride themselves on resisting knee-jerk reactions. Some have forgotten that. To a certain segment of Duke fans, Mike Krzyzewski’s origin story is just as legendary as the coach himself.
Duke fans don’t generally like to talk about the 1994-95 season all that much because the wheels fell off when Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski took a leave of absence to deal with his health.
A vastly underrated classic in the Duke canon. In 1980, Duke’s first-year coach was 33 years old with a difficult to spell name, so Mike Krzyzewski just told people to call him Coach K.
Court-storming became a hot topic once again after Duke basketball’s Kyle Filipowski received a knee injury after losing to Wake Forest in a wild upset.
Scheyer is off to the best two-year start in Duke history One of the things that’s kind of bothered us about the Transition is that Jon Scheyer has, in our view, taken a lot of unjust criticism.
Duke basketball has been humming right along in the second year since the retirement of head coach Mike Krzyzewski. The Blue Devils currently sit at number
The Ohio State Buckeyes fired head basketball coach Chris Holtmann earlier this month, after an abysmal run over the last two seasons. That run included missing the postseason with a 16-19 overall record and a 5-15 mark in the Big Ten last year, with the Buckeyes seemingly on pace to do much the same this season.
On Sunday evening, Stanford women's basketball head coach Tara VanDerveer (1,203-267 overall record across 45 seasons) bumped retired Duke basketball treasure Mike Krzyzewski (1,202-368) to No.
Roughly 43 years after earning her first victory as a head coach, Stanford's Tara VanDerveer is now alone atop the all-time list.
On Sunday, Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer officially clinched immortality as she surpassed former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski for the most college basketball wins of all time with 1,203.
On his weekly radio show on Monday night, John Calipari talked about a conversation he had with former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski on his podcast, which is set to be released later this week.
Krzyzewskiville, the designated area for tenting outside Duke basketball's Cameron Indoor Stadium, is near capacity. And it's the first weekend of October, with the tipoff to the Blue Devils' regular season still a month away.
Ponder this question: When you say you hate a particular team, are you actually talking about the team itself, or its fans? The players are just doing their jobs on the field, and while there are some whose play engenders blind rage from opposing fans, the real bad blood is created by those cheering for them from the stands (or on social media).
Retired Duke basketball legend Mike Krzyzewski and his wife, Mickie, are in Las Vegas. So are second-year head coach Jon Scheyer and a few of his cohorts.
Mike Krzyzewski didn't stroke the showman's ego of Austin Rivers when the former electrifying No. 1 overall recruit was a Duke basketball one-and-done in 2011-12.
Retired Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski was one of five people named Tuesday to the 2023 National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame class, a group with a North Carolina flair.
Former Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski has a new job in retirement. And while it doesn’t sound as if it’s a full-time gig, Coach K has finally made it to the NBA.
The NBA has added former Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski to its league office, announcing Wednesday in a press release that Krzyzewski has been hired as a special adviser to basketball operations.
Duke, a team that bombed out of the just-concluded NCAA Tournament in the second round as a No. 5 seed, is expected to do far better next year. The Blue Devils are one of the early favorites to capture the 2024 championship, according to oddsmakers.
It sounds like Duke Blue Devils coaching legend Mike Krzyzewski is among those who believe Jim Boeheim deserved better from the Syracuse Orange program and from the university.
Not even retired for one year yet, one would think that Mike Krzyzewski would miss all that coaching, or at least all the success he's had over the years, but that's actually not so.
No. 24 Duke has shown the ability to recover from disappointments, which is one of the team goals on Wednesday when the Blue Devils welcome Pittsburgh to Durham, N.C.
Coach K told the story of how Michael Jordan's manners and humility helped him a lot when he was an assistant coach on the Dream Team. The one thing that most people know about Michael Jordan is the fact that he had a massive chip on his shoulder during his playing days.
Among the elite programs in all of college sports, the Blue Devils continue to produce some of the best talent in the game on an annual basis. Here's our list of the top 20 players to don a Duke uniform — listed in chronological order.
In March, one month before his final game, Hall of Fame (now former) men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski said that he "will have nothing to do with" the Duke University program after the season.
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