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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Jun 2, 2021, 04:15 PM Jun 2021

Duke's Mike Krzyzewski plans to retire after the 2021-2022 college basketball season

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Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski plans to retire after the 2021-2022 college basketball season

By Glynn A. Hill
June 2, 2021 at 3:36 p.m. EDT

Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski, winner of five national championships and the most games in Division I men’s college basketball history, plans to retire at the conclusion of the 2021-2022 season, multiple former players told The Washington Post on Wednesday.

Krzyzewski has spent 41 seasons at Duke during a 46-year head coaching career, piling up a remarkable list of accomplishments. His 1,170 victories and 35 NCAA tournament bids are more than any other Division I men’s coach, and his 12 trips to the Final Four match UCLA’s John Wooden for the most all-time. Krzyzewski, 74, has also produced eight national players of the year and 42 first-round selections in the NBA draft.

[How Coach K mastered the one-and-done era]

Krzyzewski, who declined multiple NBA coaching offers during his run at Duke, became the U.S. men’s national team coach in 2005 and led that team to an 88-1 record and three Olympic gold medals before stepping aside after the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a college coach in 2001 and as a member of the 1992 Olympic “Dream Team” staff in 2010.

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By Glynn A. Hill
Glynn is a general assignment and breaking news reporter for The Washington Post. He previously worked for the Houston Chronicle, where he covered business, education, government and sports. Twitter https://twitter.com/Glynn_Hill
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Duke's Mike Krzyzewski plans to retire after the 2021-2022 college basketball season (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2021 OP
F Dook underpants Jun 2021 #1
agree keithsw Jun 2021 #4
His numbers speak for themselves rurallib Jun 2021 #2
Especially good for one school and its promotion empedocles Jun 2021 #3
Krzyzewski dweller Jun 2021 #5

empedocles

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3. Especially good for one school and its promotion
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 04:47 PM
Jun 2021

[As opposed to coaches who jump up the salary ladder]

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