At 63, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has reinvented himself, program as chance for another title arrives
Posted on April 05, 2010
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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Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski triumphs through staying power
Posted on April 05, 2010
Krzyzewski became a coaching legend the old-fashioned way — by staying at one school for three decades. A Duke victory Monday night over Butler would give him his fourth national title, moving him past Bob Knight and into a second-place tie with Adolph Rupp on all-time coaches’ list.
There is no one way to establish a legacy.
You have win-and-run nomads like Larry Brown, who can’t sit still in a chair for 10 minutes. Yet, Brown has won titles in the NCAA and the NBA and could, in two weeks, take your ragtag local youth team and win the YMCA title.
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Coach K’s Still Got His Touch
Posted on April 03, 2010
With every year that passed with a Duke-free Final Four, the skeptics became louder: Had Mike Krzyzewski somehow lost his touch?
Maybe not.
Perhaps the 63-year-old Hall of Famer was merely waiting for his current crop of maturing players to figure out how to storm through a bracket. It might have taken longer than it ever did during his three-decade reign in Durham, but Coach K is back at the Final Four.
And at least one of his former stars never questioned whether he’d return to college basketball’s biggest stage.
“I didn’t have any doubts. One thing people need to know about Coach K, is if they have doubts, they are mistaken,” said Utah Jazz forward Carlos Boozer, who led Duke to its most recent national title in 2001.
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