CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Duke could have spent the final five minutes running the Four Corners in Mike Krzyzewski’s final tribute to Dean Smith, a bitter rival who became a compatriot, the titan of the ACC that Krzyzewski spent years trying to dethrone only to, eventually, become.
Krzyzewski openly mused this week that it would be a shame if North Carolina ever slapped a corporate name on the Smith Center, which in today’s world of college athletics isn’t quite the leap of logic it once might have been.
Then again, Krzyzewski exited the floor for the last time Saturday, having all but stamped his own name on the building somewhere.
