Over 30 former Duke basketball players, including National Players of the Year Shane Battier, Jason Williams and Christian Laettner, will serve as team coaches this summer to headline the eighth annual K Academy June 2-6 at Duke’s historic Cameron Indoor Stadium.

In addition, Duke Basketball stars from the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s will also coach again at America’s first and top-rated college fantasy basketball camp.

The current Duke National Championship coaching staff of Steve Wojciechowski, Chris Collins, Nate James and Chris Carrawell will join Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame head coach Mike Krzyzewski to host and coach in K Academy VIII – a camp for adults aged 35 and above.

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SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today that legendary college basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the 2010 National Champion Duke Blue Devils, will host his show Basketball and Beyond with Coach K tonight, April 7 (8:00 pm ET), on Mad Dog Radio, SIRIUS channel 123 and XM channel 144.

Coach K and the Blue Devils won their fourth NCAA Championship Monday night with a thrilling 61-59 victory over the Butler Bulldogs in Indianapolis.  Monday’s game was Krzyzewski’s 868th career win as a coach and his 795th victory in his 30th year at Duke.

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Mike Krzyzewski doesn’t have to look very far to feel old before the national title game.

The Duke coach and his family had an Easter egg hunt in their hotel suite Sunday, just like they did during their first Final Four 25 years ago. But this time, his six grandchildren were hunting the eggs, not his daughters.

The coach on the other bench for Butler, 33-year-old Brad Stevens, is much closer in age to his players than to Krzyzewski. Can the iconic Duke head coach even remember what it was like at that age?

“I do remember when I was 33,” Coach K replied during a press conference Sunday. “Do you?”

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