Legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski will retire following the upcoming 2021-22 school basketball season, in accordance with CBS Sports activities’ Gary Parrish. Krzyzewski, who turned 74 in February and is famously referred to as “Coach Ok,” has led Duke to 5 NCAA Event championships, 12 Ultimate 4 appearances and 27 mixed ACC titles in match and regular-season competitors since taking up this system forward of the 1980-81 season.

In his 46-year teaching profession, Krzyzewski has gained 1,170 video games, probably the most in males’s school basketball historical past.      

A 3-time Naismith Faculty Coach of the 12 months and five-time ACC Coach of the 12 months, Krzyzewski has amassed a 1,097-302 (.784) profession report at Duke with 25-plus wins in 22 of the final 24 seasons courting again to 1997-98. His 5 nationwide championships are bested solely by UCLA’s John Picket (10). 

He led the Blue Devils to 24 straight NCAA Event appearances from 1996 to 2019 earlier than lacking the Large Dance this season as Duke struggled to a 13-11 (9-9 ACC) report. Duke gained its first two video games within the 2020 ACC Event however was pressured to withdraw from the occasion after a constructive COVID-19 take a look at throughout the program’s Tier 1 personnel.

Duke assistant and former participant Jon Scheyer is believed to be the inheritor obvious to Coach Ok, and an announcement to that finish may very well be made as quickly as Wednesday afternoon, in accordance with Parrish.

Krzyzewski additionally coached the U.S. Males’s Nationwide Group to 3 Olympic gold medals (2008, 2012, 2016) and two FIBA World Cups (2010, 2014). Previous to that, he was an assistant coach on the gold medal-winning Dream Group in 1992.

Earlier than becoming a member of Duke, Krzyzewski performed level guard for Military underneath coach Bob Knight from 1966-69, serving as captain in his closing season. He graduated from West Level and served as an officer in america Military for six years earlier than beginning his teaching profession. Krzyzewski labored as an assistant underneath Knight at Indiana for one season earlier than taking up as head coach at Military in 1975. He led the then-Cadets to a 73-59 (.553) report over 5 seasons with an NIT start and first-round exit in 1978.

After Invoice Foster left Duke for South Carolina following three straight NCAA Event appearances, Krzyzewski was employed to steer the Blue Devils. It began tough with a 28-47 report, one NIT berth and two campaigns with out postseason competitors within the first three years. Many Duke boosters referred to as for his ouster, however Krzyzewski’s job was saved by then-athletic director Tom Butters.

Coach Ok quickly turned Duke round, reaching his first Ultimate 4 inside three years of that call as a part of stretch of 11 straight NCAA Event appearances, together with two nationwide titles (1991-92), three runner-up finishes and 7 whole Ultimate 4 berths.

Coach Ok was pressured to vacate the bench in the course of the 1994-95 season after he had surgical procedure to restore a ruptured disk in his again with Duke in the end failing to make the NCAA Event after assistant Pete Gaudet took over for the rest of the season. Nonetheless, the Blue Devils had been again within the Large Dance the next 12 months and set off his string of 24 straight appearances, which included three extra nationwide titles (2001, 2010, 2015).

The information of his impending retirement comes two months after legendary North Carolina coach Roy Williams, 70, introduced he was stepping down following 48 years in teaching. The departures of Williams and Krzyzewski from school basketball will go away the game with out two of its pillars during the last half-century.

Stadium’s Jeff Goodman first reported Coach Ok’s resolution and Scheyer’s candidacy.

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