GREENVILLE, S.C. — In his very first victory as a head coach, Mike Krzyzewski, West Point man, made poor Lehigh wish it had never taken up the sport at the turn of the 20th century. His Army player…
Krzyzewski left out the little nugget that the wise men were at least partly referring to the volcanic Knight, who hired his former Army point guard as a grad assistant at Indiana in 1974 and showed him to run a powerhouse Division I program — and how not to run a powerhouse Division I program.
“We were 111-106 in my first eight years … five at West Point and three at Duke,” Krzyzewski said. “I learned a lot during that time, and I was able to get a higher level of talent to be able to teach, and pretty much I’ve been able to do that again and again, and that’s made me better. At Michigan State for the better part of three decades, Izzo has had a front-row seat for Krzyzewski’s growth. Though the Spartans handed Coach K one of his most devastating defeats three years ago, preventing his Zion Williamson-RJ Barrett team from reaching the Final Four, Krzyzewski is 12-3 against him, and beat him in 2011 to break Knight’s all-time victories record with his 903rd.“That was in Madison Square Garden,” Izzo recalled.
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