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Mike Krzyzewski discusses Duke, Dean Smith and future of college basketball

DURHAM, N.C. — In March 1980, in his introductory press conference as the men’s basketball head coach at Duke, a 33-year-old Mike Krzyzewski was asked by a reporter to confirm the spelling of his last name.

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Mike Bianchi: Gators AD Scott Stricklin on Billy Napier: ‘Incredibly pleased with how he’s building program’

Can we please stop with the ridiculous chatter about Billy Napier being on some sort of fictional hot seat heading into just his second season at the University of Florida?

Orlando Sentinel

Coach K’s Hall of Fame career ends as Duke falls to UNC in historic Final Four matchup

NEW ORLEANS — After decades of success as Duke’s basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski’s career ended Saturday night with a loss that figures to resonate decades into the future.

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Mike Bianchi: An ode to Tom Butters — the AD who hired Coach K and Steve Spurrier

ORLANDO, Fla. — To be a great college athletic director, you also have to be a gambler.

Orlando Sentinel

The day they thought Duke might fire Coach K. ‘How do you think they feel now?’

DURHAM, N.C. — If Chuck Swenson goes back in time far enough he can still hear the jeers and the insults, the slurs he said some shouted from the stands during one of the longest nights of Mike Krzyzewski’s coaching career, and perhaps the longest of them all. It has…

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Luke DeCock: Coach K and Duke almost didn’t happen. In 1980, Paul Webb was nearly hired instead.

The tale of how Tom Butters ended up trusting his gut and hiring an Army coach with a losing record, knowing the mockery and derision that would follow, has often been told over the intervening four decades. So has the role of Steve Vacendak, Butters’ trusted aide, the man who…

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