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from the editor At Duke, change has been all around us throughout the past 10 years. Between construction, a new President, a new Director of Athletics and a winning football team, things have been different here in Durham.

But through all the cranes, Cutcliffe and Melville enthusiasts, Mike Krzyzewski has been the constant, steadily giving Dukies something to cheer about for 35 years.

And now, 1,000 wins later, he has given fans and the media yet another opportunity to be proud and report on his success.

So instead of writing 10 new articles that try and encapsulate just how significant this historical achievement is, we in The Chronicle sports department have decided the best way to represent history is by presenting the landmarks that came before it. Within these 24 pages are five stories from the past and five stories from 2015—all written by Chronicle reporters. Through these articles, you will travel from a time at which Coach K was a no-name hire to his 500th victory against No. 3 North Carolina at Cameron Indoor Stadium to Jan. 25, 2015 when Krzyzewski’s Blue Devils came from behind to take down St. John’s and give him the coveted fourth digit. It also gives us the opportunity to present you with all of our solid reporting throughout the years.

Coach K will not be at Duke forever, and that change seems to be coming sooner than many want. So before the next change, take a look back and enjoy the moment. Just don’t expect Krzyzewski to look back with you—he’s got a game to prepare for.

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Table of Kontents Krzyzewski: Not a typo

Mrs. Coach K

Mike Krzyzewski is hired as the next head coach at Duke despite not being a high-profile name. PAGE 5

A Q&A with Carol ‘Mickie’ Krzyzewski about everything from the early days to No. 1,000. PAGE 14

Win No. 1 at Duke

From no-name to GOAT

Krzyzewski captured his first win at Duke Nov. 18, 1980 vs.

Stetson. PAGE 7

Former Chronicle sports editor Andrew Rosen on Coach K’s early days.

Cameron Classic

Win No. 500 was the perfect win—a comeback against No. 3 North Carolina to clinch the ACC. PAGE 9

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Adapting for success How does Krzyzewski keep on winning despite the changing landscape? He adapts. PAGE 18

Passing Knight: No. 903

Approaching the Sumitt

Playing at Madison Square Garden, Coach K passed his former mentor to become the winningest DI men’s coach. PAGE 10

V. 109 Sports Editor Daniel Carp on the all-time winningest coach in Division I history—Pat Sumitt. PAGE 20

Coach K, 1K

The First K-Ville

Jan. 25, 2015. Thanks to a comeback victory against St. John’s, Coach K became the first men’s DI coach to hit No. 1,000. PAGE 12, 13

Before there were rules and black tents, there was a U-Haul and kids looking to watch a ballgame. PAGE 22

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Hiring

Mike Krzyzewski hired as Duke basketball head coach The then-relatively unknown Krzyzewski assumed the head coaching position in 1980 Bart Pachino In a surprise announcement last night, Mike Krzyzewski, the head coach of Army during the last five years, was named the new head basketball coach by athletic director Tom Butters.

Krzyzewski (pronounced Kre-shevski) replaces Bill Foster, who mentioned Krzyzewski, 33, as a possible successor.

Most of the speculation centered on Boston College’s Tom Davis, Mississippi’s Bob Weltich, and Foster’s top assistant at Duke, Bob Wenzel. Yet, Butters said that he visited with Krzyzewski three times over the last 10 days.

“There is no doubt in my mind that Mike is the most brilliant young basketball coach in the country,” Butters said. “In addition, Butters denied rumors that he had previously offered the job to another coach.

“Mike was my first choice and he received unanimous approval by the athletic council,” he added.

Krzyzewski is credited with transforming a losing basketball program at Army into a high-caliber one. He arrived at West Point in 1975 and took the Cadets, who had been 3-22

in 1974-75 to 11-14, 20-8, and 19-9 marks in his first three seasons there. However, the Cadets fell to 14-11 and 9-17 during the last two seasons.

The new coach is a disciple of Indiana University’s Bobby Knight, widely considered one of the nation’s best basketball minds. A native of Chicago, Krzyzewski played at the U.S. Military Academy under Knight from 1967-69.

He served as a graduate assistant for Knight at Indiana in 1974 before moving to West Point. He also coached with Knight this past summer as an assistant on America’s gold medal Pan-American Games team.

“You’re certainly a product of your environment, and Coach Knight is a great teacher,” Krzyzewski said. “But I’m not Bobby Knight. I’m a different person. His principles of basketball are excellent, but it’s a matter of applying yourself to them.”

Speaking about the style of basketball Duke will play next season, Krzyzewski said, “We will run a motion offense and play a man-to-man defense primarily. We will not be a slow-down team.”

Recruiting will be a top priority for Krzyzewski in the coming weeks. “I feel that recruiting will be easier here,” he said in obvious reference to the military service requirement his Army players faced. “It will be a different type of recruiting. We’ll be able to go after the

Chronicle File Photo Head coach Mike Krzyzewski seen here addressing the media at his opening press conference.

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“I’ll be out on the road pretty quickly and we will follow up on the players that Duke has already recruited,” he added.

Krzyzewski saw no reason that Duke cannot continue the winning ways of recent years. “Anytime you lose players the caliber of Mike (Gminski) and Bobby (Bender) to graduation, it can’t help,” he said. “But I sure as hell hope that Duke can contend next year, and be a tournament team every year. That’s got to be the goal of any program.”

The new coach met with most of the players before the press conference at 8 p.m. “I feel really good after talking to them,” he said. “They seem to have a good chemistry here.”

The players also had positive feelings for Krzyzewski. Freshman guard Tom Emma said, “I don’t know much about him as a coach, but he seems like a nice guy. It looks really good for next year.”

Bender, who enrolled at Indiana after being recruited by Krzyzewski, was surprised by the announcement. “My first reaction was kind of a shock, but at the same time I am very pleased for Duke,” he said.

“He’s personable, dynamic, and very well-versed at dealing with the public. And his record speaks for itself,” Bender said.

Krzyzewski displayed a characteristic wit throughout the press conference.

He chided the press for its failure to

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Chronicle File Photo The hiring of Mike Krzyzewski came as a surprise to many in the Duke community, as the former Army coach was a relative unknown at the time in 1980.

place him on the list of Foster’s possible successors. “You guys just aren’t working hard enough,” he told the press. He also spoke humorously of the difficult spelling of his Polish surname. “It was

a lot worse before I changed it. Most of the players just call me ‘Coach K.’ But before a player graduates, I insist that they know how to pronounce it and spell it,” he added.

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First Win

Krzyzewski picks up first Duke win vs. Stetson Dave Fassett Mike Krzyzewski’s Duke debut was certainly a successful one, but another Blue Devil in a new role stole the show Saturday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Sophomore guard Tom Emma, making his first regular-season collegiate start, scored a game-high 19 points to lead Duke to a 67-49 victory over Stetson in the season opener for both teams.

With the Devils leading by just one, 32-31, three minutes into the second half, Emma led a 16-6 spurt that gave them a commanding 11-point advantage with 10:29 remaining.

After feeding Allen Williams for a 16-foot jumper, Emma sank two free throws to put Duke up by five, a margin by which Stetson would never again decrease.

Williams and Gene Banks added four points apiece during the remainder of the streak, after which the Devils gradually increased their lead to the final 18-point difference.

Emma scored nine of his team’s final ten points, including a game-ending dunk with six seconds remaining.

“I was really sky-high going in [to the game], it being my first start,” he said.

“Tonight the shots were mine, they were sagging in on Gene and I was free outside.

Coach K gives me a lot of confidence, and his man-to-man defense really suits my game well.”

Banks totaled 13 points and seven rebounds before fouling out with just over two minutes left in the game. Vince Taylor also hit for 13 points, and Williams came off the bench to add 10 on perfect five-forfive shooting from the floor.

“This was a good opener for us against a well-coached team,” said Krzyzewski. “I was very pleased with our effort. They [Stetson] didn’t come up here to lose.”

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Throughout the first half, it looked like neither team had come to win. Both clubs showed opening-game jitters with cold shooting and sloppy ballhandling, which led to one stretch of over five minutes when each side could manage just two points.

“We just rushed too much in the first half,” said Krzyzewski, whose team held a 26-24 advantage at intermission. “We got ahead of ourselves. Our shot selection was better in the second half.”

Indeed, the Blue Devils improved their shooting from the floor from 45 percent to 58 percent in the final period. The Hatters, however, sunk from a frigid 35 percent to what head coach Glenn Wilkes called an “archaic” 31 percent. Incredibly enough, that figure looks good when compared with their horrendous 21 percent (3 of 14) from the free throw line.

“We shot poorly and our shot selection broke down on us,” said Wilkes. “We had a few too many turnovers and our poor

shot selection made us totally ineffective on offense.”

Despite its shooting woes, Wilkes’ squad, which was led by forward Frank Burnell’s 15 points, managed to stay close for most of the contest by outrebounding Duke, 45-36.

“We did not do a good job rebounding tonight, particularly on offense,” said Krzyzewski, whose team was not outsized by the Hatters’ front line of 6-5 Burnell, 6-6 Wilber Montgomery and 6-8 Clifford Johnson.

“We had a one-shot offense in the first half. We were thinking defense instead of offense a bit too much.”

Krzyzewski started Mike Tissaw, who had “a good week of practice,” in place of Williams, who started against the Polish National Team two weeks ago. The 6-8 Tissaw, like fellow sophomores Emma and Williams, performed well, grabbing six rebounds and dishing out a team-high four assists in 25 minutes.

Their efforts were necessary due to the subpar performances turned in by Banks, Taylor

and Kenny Dennard, who had six points and seven rebounds before fouling out with five minutes left on the clock.

Taylor, in particular, was off his game on opening night, having the ball stolen from him the first two times he touched it and throwing up two straight air balls later in the first period.

“I didn’t play well at all,” he said. “I think I was just out of rhythm. I may have been too pumped up.”

“He didn’t play his typical game,” said Krzyzewski.

Still, the Blue Devils enjoyed their best moments of the evening when the big three was on the court. When asked what he thought of his team’s play when Banks and Dennard were on the bench late in the game, Krzyzewski said, “Not very experienced.

“I was thinking to myself on the bench,” he added, “this could be our club next year if we don’t recruit well.”

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CAMERON CLASSIC: KRZYZEWSKI WINS 500TH

Coach K picked up win No. 500 in the most memorable Duke-UNC clash of his career Dave Berger In his two seasons at North Carolina, Makhtar Ndiaye has hardly stood out as a quote machine. But one line he uttered in frustration Saturday spoke volumes about Duke’s 77-75 victory over UNC. “Elton Brand, Elton Brand. I’m tired of Elton Brand,” Ndiaye grumbled in his deep, thick, Senegalese accent after Brand had led the Blue Devils’ spirited comeback.

Ndiaye had just gotten his first up-close glimpse at Brand and had played opposite the Duke freshman for less than 20 minutes. That was enough for him.

In 17 second-half minutes, Brand posted 13 points and four rebounds, including three on the offensive end. On one huge offensive board, he scooted away from traffic under the basket, bolted toward the free-throw line and grabbed the loose ball.

“He looked like a jet,” Krzyzewski said. “I don’t know how he did that.”

Less than two weeks ago, Brand wasn’t supposed to play at all, let alone look like a jet in his team’s most important regularseason game. He was expected to miss the rest of the season.

Even after he conceded that he might return by Feb. 22, he warned that he would not reach peak game shape until the week of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.

Apparently, he was wrong. Brand played almost all of the second half and helped Duke turn a 17-point deficit into an inconceivable triumph.

Brand didn’t own the paint by himself, though. He had plenty of help from senior forward Roshown McLeod, who scored six of his game-high 23 points in the final 3 1/2 minutes.

McLeod tallied nine points in the first half but had no rebounds in 15 minutes as UNC jumped out to a 42-30 halftime lead. He also allowed Carolina’s Antawn Jamison to explode for 14 first-half points and seven rebounds.

Although McLeod added eight points in the first 7 1/2 minutes of the second half, only one of his field goals came from inside 10 feet.

He didn’t slow down Jamison, and though Brand’s three-basket flurry pulled the Blue Devils within 67-57, McLeod’s play in the paint seemed woefully inadequate.

When McLeod picked up his fourth foul with 8:17 left, assistant coach David Henderson greeted him on the sideline.

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Chronicle File Photo Then-No. 1 Duke came away with a win on Senior Day against then-No. 3 North Carolina thanks to a heroic performance from Elton Brand in his first game back from injury.

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Dawkins’ big night in the Garden helps deliver No. 903 Chris Cusack V. 107 Sports Editor NEW YORK — When it was all over, Mike Krzyzewski pushed through the crowd of photographers surrounding him to find Bob Knight, his former coach and the man whose record he had just broken. The two embraced courtside, laughing, before Krzyzewski disappeared back into the throng.

“I just told him… ‘Coach, I’m not sure people tell you this, but I love you, and I love what you’ve done for me, and thank you,’” Krzyzewski said. “And he says, ‘Boy, you’ve done pretty good for a kid who couldn’t shoot.’ I think that meant he loves me too.”

More than four decades after Krzyzewski took the floor for Army as Knight’s point guard, the disciple passed his mentor with the 903rd head coaching victory of his career in a 74-69 win over Michigan State at Madison Square Garden in front of dozens of former Blue Devils. The victory breaks Knight’s NCAA Division I record, a mark that had stood since 2008.

“It’s special,” said Seth Curry, who had 20 points and a team-high seven rebounds. “It’s something I’m going to remember for the rest of my life, and I hope college basketball will [too].”

Despite the narrow final margin, the game was never in doubt after Duke broke away with a 16-1 run early in the second half, sparked by three consecutive 3-pointers from Andre Dawkins, Ryan Kelly and Curry. The Spartans

Chronicle File Photo Mike Krzyzewski passed his former coach Bob Knight on the men’s Division I all-time wins list Nov. 15, 2011.

were held without a field goal for over seven minutes as Duke extended its lead to 19.

“For fifteen minutes I thought we played beautiful basketball,” Krzyzewski said. “We executed well and our defense was very, very good.”

The first half, though, was an entirely different story. From the start, the Blue Devils came out “tight or tentative,” Krzyzewski said, and struggled to find their rhythm on offense. They shot just 9-of-22 from the field, but were carried by a career performance from Dawkins, who had 14 points on 5-of9 shooting—including 4-of-6 from 3-point

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range—in the opening period alone. The junior would finish with a game-high 26 points, including six 3-pointers.

“I thought Dawkins played his tail off,” Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo said.

“He was a difference maker with hitting some tough threes.”

Although Dawkins dominated from the perimeter, Spartan big men Draymond Green and Branden Dawson were almost equally successful on the interior, scoring the bulk of their team’s 16 points in the paint and holding Duke to just four in the half.

The teams traded the lead five times in the

first period and went into halftime with Duke up one, 34-33.

After the break, however, the pair would combine to shoot just 2-for-10 as Kelly and Mason Plumlee began helping on defense more aggressively in the post. “[Green] tried to do a little bit too much making those plays,” Izzo said. “I go through [the big men] a lot so I would not blame [Green]. I would blame me. I am the one that wants him to have the ball more… and he is going to have to grow on that.”

Duke provided extensive pressure in the backcourt as well, holding Michigan State, which shot 20 3-pointers against North Carolina last week, to only 12 attempts—and just four makes.

With 16:24 remaining and the Blue Devils leading 41-40, Dawkins started the most lopsided portion of the game with a 3-pointer from the wing. Two minutes later, the score was 50-40—the smallest Spartan deficit until there was just 73 seconds left in the game.

“I thought we played really well, especially in the second half,” Curry said. “We kind of imposed our will.”

In those final minutes, sloppy play from the Blue Devils gave Michigan State a chance at a last-ditch comeback effort. Keith Appling had four straight baskets on his team’s final four possessions, but Duke made 7-of-8 free throws down the stretch to ice the landmark victory.

“I don’t know yet [what the record means to me],” Krzyzewski said. “I think it will mean a lot when it’s all over.”

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THERE IS

Comeback gives Krzyzewski No. 1,000 Ryan Hoerger Sports Managing Editor NEW YORK—First, there was No. 903. Sunday afternoon, one of basketball’s iconic figures reached another milestone at the sport’s most iconic venue.

One thousand.

A 13-1 second-half run for the Blue Devils brought No. 5 Duke back from a double-digit hole to claim a 77-68 victory against St. John’s Sunday at Madison Square Garden, earning legendary head coach Mike Krzyzewski the 1,000th victory of his 40year career in comeback fashion.

Quinn Cook, Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor led the way for the Duke comeback, combining to score 55 points, 31 of them coming after halftime.

Each player had a 3-point play to help erase what was once a 61-51 deficit, and Cook splashed home his fourth triple of the afternoon to put Duke back ahead by one, a lead they would never relinquish.

In a game that saw both teams squander a double-digit lead, the Blue Devils buckled down in the closing seven minutes to seize control after the Red Storm dominated the middle third of the game. Krzyzewski has coached 1,308 games in his career, but the one that got him his milestone victory had even him shaking his head.

“I’m not sure I’ve ever been part of a game like that, that’s kind of nuts,” said Krzyzewski, the first Division I men’s basketball coach to reach the marker. “To have one that’s different, that’s what makes the game so good. To do it here [at Madison Square Garden]—just to win here, but to do it here for 1,000, you’ve got to be a lucky guy.... This is a magical place.”

Returning to the arena where he earned his 903rd victory to pass mentor Bob Knight for most in Division I men’s basketball history, Krzyzewski expected a battle from the Red Storm (13-6). But in the early going, it looked as though Duke (17-2) might coast to the historic milestone, as a monstrous Okafor dunk in transition gave the Blue Devils a 2110 edge with 12:25 remaining.

It wouldn’t be quite so easy. Trailing by 11, head coach Steve Lavin called a timeout to stop the bleeding, and the Red Storm emerged from the bench a new team. Sir’Dominic Pointer and Rysheed Jordan led the charge for St. John’s, combining for 29 first-half points as the Red Storm cut the lead to 23-19, eventually charging ahead 33-32 on a 3-point play by Jordan. During the run, Duke scored seven points in seven minutes.

A 3-pointer at the buzzer by D’Angelo Harrison gave the home team a 43-39 lead heading into the locker room. The ball appeared to leave Harrison’s hands after the shot clock expired, but the play was not reviewed despite Krzyzewski’s animated conversation with the officials.

At 67 years old, Krzyzewski has spent more than half his life manning the Duke sideline, and was in peak form Sunday, imploring his team to defend and at one point asking for one of his team’s trademark floor slaps.

“Energy is not a matter of age. It’s a matter of commitment to your position, to what you do. As long as I’m doing it, I’m going to bring energy,” Krzyzewski said. “It was beautiful to see them fight today.”

The Red Storm didn’t let up out of the locker room. Senior Phil Greene IV scored four straight points for St. John’s early in the second half, as the Red Storm guard parted a sea of Blue Devil defenders to hit back-to-back floaters in the lane to push the lead to 51-43. The run coincided with the departure of Amile Jefferson, who was forced to the sideline with three personal fouls.

With Jefferson and sixth man Rasheed Sulaimon on the bench in foul trouble, the Blue Devils made their push. Cook cut the lead to seven before Jones drove baseline to draw the hoop and the harm. The freshman floor general converted the ensuing free throw to trim the deficit to 61-57 with 6:51 to play.

Jones finished with a game-high 22 points, tying a career-high “We were losing and we knew we had to come together and slowly start to chip away,” Jones said.

“We just wanted to do it for Coach. We hadn’t been playing as well as we would’ve liked to. It was just the time of the game where we had to get it going.”

Fifteen seconds later, Okafor corralled an errant Jones 3-pointer and finished a 3-point play of his own, putting the momentum back in Duke’s corner. When Cook knocked down his fourth triple to put his team ahead 63-62—his team’s first lead since 4:37 mark of the first half—the sizable Blue Devil contingent threatened to tear the roof off The World’s Most Famous Arena.

On the other end, the Blue Devils got a big boost from reserves Marshall Plumlee and Matt Jones.

The big front line of Okafor and Plumlee gave up some quickness to Pointer and the other St. John’s forwards, but held its own down low, grabbing rebounds and forcing the Red Storm guards to pull up for jumpers rather than finish drives at the rim.

St. John’s missed 11 of its last 14 shots in the game’s final 9:52. “[Plumlee] was amazing. He came off the bench and provided something that we needed,” Jefferson said. “He rebounded excellently, he was talking. He and Matt came off the bench and helped us win this game.”

Throughout the week, players and coaches had stressed Sunday’s game as an opportunity to win Duke’s 17th game of the season. Having achieved that goal, the Blue Devils allowed themselves to soak in the true meaning of the victory.

“It’s for all the [former] players. We were doing it for the program, doing it for Coach, and doing it for all the guys before us,” Cook said. “We happened to be here, and we’re all humbled and blessed to be a part of history.”

“It’s almost like you can’t believe that it all happened like this, that he would get his 1,000th win here in The Garden. It’s amazing how the world works,” added Jefferson. “It’s a historic moment— for us to just be in it is great.”

With the ticker recalibrated to accommodate four digits, Krzyzewski will take aim at career win 1,001 Wednesday at No. 8 Notre Dame at 7:30 p.m.

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THE STORY OF WIN NO. 17

With all the focus on No. 1,000, Krzyzewski had his team focused on getting win No. 17 Bobby Colton Beat Writer NEW YORK—Even after the final buzzer sounded on No. 5 Duke’s 77-68 win against St. John’s; even after the congratulations message shined up on GardenVision at the World’s Most Famous Arena; even after the entire team donned “1K” shirts and hats; Sunday afternoon’s game was still not about Mike Krzyzewski.

“There will be others who will win more,” Krzyzewski quipped to an overflowing room of reporters during his press conference.

All week the players and the coach himself said all the right things about Krzyzewski’s 1,000th win. Everyone said that it was about win 17 for this season’s Blue Devils, not about win 1,000 for their Hall-of-Fame head coach. And after the game, when 1,000 was etched into the history books once and for all, it was still just about win 17.

“I wasn’t thinking about 1,000,” captain Quinn Cook said. “I was just thinking about 17. Coach was great about the whole 1K. He knew he was going to get it sooner or later this season. We just wanted to come here and beat a great team on their home floor and get win 17.”

That doesn’t mean that the anticipation for the historic event wasn’t present around the team. As Cook pointed out, the players do watch television and do participate in social media, so it’s not like it was some big secret that their head coach was about

to do something no man had ever done before.

Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor both admitted that the impending history played a role in their decision to come to Duke this season. And Matt Jones tweeted after the game, “The reason I came to Duke.. For reasons like these.. Thanking God for this surreal moment.”

But when the players were on the court, with millions watching, and their record on the line, 1,000 was far from any of the players’ minds.

“We were just trying to beat St. John’s,” Cook said. “Really, that’s all we were thinking about. That’s all Coach was thinking about. All this stuff happens, and we were just focused on our one win.”

Krzyzewski was as enthusiastic and energetic as he’s ever been on the sideline, but according to him the inspiration for win 1,000 didn’t come from the head coach. After all, if his team were feeding off of him, “we would have turned it around in the middle of the first half.”

No, Sunday afternoon was about brotherhood and about family. Just like every single one of Krzyzewski’s 1,000 wins.

There was not a single player in the locker room after the momentous win who didn’t credit the former Duke teams that Krzyzewski coached, and also his West Point clubs, for bringing them to the point of history. The team dedicated the win to those former players, who put in the hard work just as they did, and were just unlucky enough to have played for Krzyzewski too early.

“It’s a huge testimony to Coach K and all the teams he coached—to us, to teams before us, and all the way back to West Point,” Marshall Plumlee said. “So that’s a

brotherhood, and I’m proud to be a part of that brotherhood” There also wasn’t a single individual who didn’t credit family. Krzyzewski was surrounded by much of his family— his wife, two daughters and seven grandchildren all in attendance to witness history. But joining the Krzyzewski clan were the parents of the rest of the players.

And according to Krzyzewski, it was those parents who motivated and propelled his players.

In the end, this is what 1,000 wins boil down to—to family, to predecessors and to the brothers that shed their blood, sweat and tears together on the floor when history was achieved.

Krzyzewski can joke all he wants about how he deserves none of the credit. How the reporters are writing too many stories about him and that “enough is enough.”

That after making history with wins No. 903 and 1,000 at the Mecca of Basketball, his picture may go up on the walls, but only in the restroom, which he was okay with so long as “it’s not in a bad part of the restroom.”

But the real truth is there is a reason Mike Krzyzewski has 1,000 wins and no other coach in Division I Basketball history does.

“We were all attacking it as our 17th win,” Plumlee said. “That’s all that it was about.

The reason Coach K probably has 1,000 wins is because he attacks each one like that—just one win at a time. He talked about number 17 tonight, not number 1,000.”

And now, with 1,000 wins in his rearview mirror, there is no doubt that Krzyzewski has his team talking about one thing, and one thing only. Win No. 18.

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Q&A

Mrs. Coach K: A Q&A with Carol ‘Mickie’ Krzyzewski Nick Martin Sports Editor With a moniker like Coach K, it is not hard to believe why people seldom think of Mike Krzyzewski off the court. But when it comes to Carol ‘Mickie’ Krzyzewski, there is no Coach K, only her husband— Mike.

The Chronicle: Just to start off, a lot of people know the early, funny stories where Mike said you were his third choice for the date and you guys went to a Bears game.

But was it all history from there on? What happened between the first date and getting married? I try to do a lot of reading in preparation but I haven’t really found a lot of information about that.

Mickie Krzyzewski: Hmm, I haven’t thought about that too much myself. I would say we spent that period of time essentially pursuing one another.

I began watching him play ball. That was an interesting thing because one of my roommates and I suddenly found that we had no flights—we were flying on reserve, so that means we were on-call. We found out late one afternoon we didn’t have to fly out. And I knew that Army was playing Princeton at Princeton.

So I said, “Let’s go watch this game.” And he did not know we were coming. But the two of us came to that game, and in the course of us arriving there and the game ending, a blizzard set in.

I had a little red Volkswagen, a little Beetle, and it was almost covered. It was like this

Chronicle File Photo Carol (pictured second from the left) and Mike Krzyzewski have been married for 45 years and have three daughters and seven grandchildren.

horrible blizzard had set in. And we tried to drive back up the city and we weren’t going to make it. So I said, “We’ve got to stop.” So we pulled off to the closest motel, and, my roommate and I, we checked in only to learn that’s where the Army team was staying. It was so innocent. We had no idea that was happening, but all of a sudden, we were there.

Coach Knight caught wind of it and thought that it had been all set up. They had lost to Princeton, it was a close game—Mike fouled out. So Knight was pretty mad at all of them, so the next day when they went back up to

West Point, he kicked Mike off the team.

TC: That’s funny. So once you guys were married and he accepted the job at Duke, had you had any exposure to Durham or North Carolina? I know you said you lived in Virginia. What were your initial thoughts when you guys came down here?

MK: We were so naive to all of this.... I remember we bought a home and moved into the home, and I was kind of redecorating and I had chosen the wallpaper to go up in the master bathroom. The guys came to install the wallpaper and they were kind of

uncomfortable. Finally, one of them said, “Are you sure this is what you want?” And I just looked at him like, “I have pretty good taste.

Yeah, yeah this what I want.” And he said, “Just asking, ‘cause it’s Carolina blue.” We kind of got our first taste of what it was going to be like that first year.

TC: I can only imagine the schedule an ACC coach has, so what was it like at home and how did you counter-balance that as parents?

MK: Well, when our daughters were children and living at home, a very important thing that I believe that we did was we never had any Duke memorabilia hanging in the house. The house was not decorated in Duke blue, it was actually more decorated in pink because we had three daughters. Lace and pink. Mike used to always go, “I can’t believe I’m living in lace and pink.” But the things that we would hang in our house or on our fridge was stuff that the girls had accomplished. So there was no Duke hanging in the house.

We tried to make sure that they knew that they came first to us and that they were more important to us.

TC: And this is my last question—to us in the media, he doesn’t seem to make a huge deal out of 1,000 games. But is it still cool for you guys to know that he’s doing this?

MK: Well, I look forward to the day he and I are sitting in our rocking chairs and can reflect on this. But there’s no time to reflect.

And it’s certainly not the goal of our next game and it isn’t anything we talk about.

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FROM “KRE-SHEV-SKI” TO NO. 1,000 The Chronicle’s 1980 coSports editor reflects on how a no-name hire turned out to be the G.O.A.T. Andrew Rosen 1980 Chronicle Co-Sports Editor Long before his 1,000th win—way before the four national championships, 11 Final Fours, and 82 NCAA tournament game victories—Mike Krzyzewski had us in a bind.

As four of us from The Chronicle’s sports desk walked down Chapel Drive toward the March 18, 1980 press conference at which Duke’s new head basketball coach was to be announced, we ran through the possibilities. Bill Foster had resigned as coach two weeks earlier on the day Duke won the ACC championship, and we figured his popular assistant Bob Wenzel had a shot at the top job. But a “name” coach seemed more likely: maybe Tom Davis from Boston College, or Chuck Daly, a former Duke assistant who had taken Pennsylvania to new heights before moving to the NBA. We bickered, argued and assessed the odds of almost every coach in America other than Dean Smith himself.

One name that did not come up was Mike Krzyzewski. I can say that with certainty, because none of us had ever heard

Chronicle File Photo | Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle Despite being an unknown outside hire in 1980, Mike Krzyzewski has gone on to become the winningest coach in men’s Division I history.

of him until the moment athletic director Tom Butters took to the microphone with the startling announcement that the anonymous young guy in the camelcolored jacket was to be the new Duke University basketball coach.

The press conference was late in the day, shortly before our deadline for the next day’s paper. Yet we knew literally nothing more about Krzyzewski than what

was said at the press conference. He had taken a moribund program at Army to 20-win territory and made the NIT. In his most recent season, though, the team had slipped to 7-19. In that pre-Internet era, there was no way of sounding suddenly smart about something you knew nothing about. When we got back to the Chronicle office, we found nothing about Krzyzewski in the basketball guides strewn about. A

guy on the news desk had a high school buddy at West Point, but when we called, the cadet who picked up the hall phone didn’t know anything about Krzyzewski.

This was the guy Butters selected?

The headline in the next-day’s Chronicle reflected our surprise at the choice, with an allusion to his alphabet soup name: “Krzyzewski: This is Not a Typo.” We included a helpful, albeit incorrect, pronunciation key in the article: “Kre-shev-ski.” At least we did better than the AP, which offered: “Kre-ches-skee.” (If today’s students find it hard to fathom why the pronunciation wasn’t obvious to us, just try asking Siri to name Duke’s basketball coach.)

As Coach K’s legend has grown during the last 35 years, some have assumed he essentially created Duke basketball.

In fact, Duke was a recognized, though inconsistent, national power before he arrived. Indeed, just three days before the press conference announcing Krzyzewski’s hiring, Duke’s season had ended with a heartbreaking loss to Purdue in an NCAA Regional Final. Two years earlier, the Blue Devils had made it all the way to the national championship game.

Given that history, many were disappointed Duke had selected such an obscure coach. But there were hopeful signs. Krzyzewski had the strong endorsement of his former college coach

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Bob Knight, a canny evaluator of coaching talent. Butters, not known for hyperbole, expressed “no doubt” that he had found “the brightest young coaching talent in America.”

Krzyzewski understood that he wasn’t a household name, and he worked hard to remedy that by making himself broadly available, even to student reporters. He was very clear about his coaching philosophy— which is largely unchanged—and he was funny. Asked about his last name, he quipped, “You should have heard it before I changed it.” His West Point pedigree drilled into him something many coaches never develop: pride in an institution, not just in a basketball program. He seemed genuinely humbled to be a custodian of the tradition and values of Duke. In those early days, I could not have predicted the kind of coach he would become, but it was easy to predict that he would not bring scandal or embarrassment to the university.

He worked the media, student groups and community organizations, and before he coached his first game, he had built a solid reservoir of goodwill and hope.

He would need it. Foster, his predecessor, had left a legacy of ACC championships and high national rankings, but he had not left a recruiting class. Star seniors Gene Banks and Kenny Dennard led a team with little depth to a 17-13 record in Krzyzewski’s first year, highlighted by a dramatic win in Coach K’s first home game against North Carolina.

Although disappointed by the first season, Duke fans were energized by the knowledge that Coach K was in the hunt for some of the top recruits in the nation. But all the big names, including Chris Mullin,

Chronicle File Photo After a rough couple years at the beginning, the class of Jay Bilas, Johnny Dawkins and Co. jumpstarted Duke and Krzyzewski’s successful 35-year run.

went elsewhere. Coach K started his second year with an extremely thin roster, and the results reflected it.

The season opened with four losses in five games, the worst start in school history.

Right before the December, 1981 exam break, Duke was humiliated by Princeton, 72-55. Krzyzewski was reeling. “This is the worst I’ve felt after a game in my seven years of coaching,” he said after the game. “We were embarrassed. It was a total collapse.”

The Princeton game, arguably the nadir of Krzyzewski’s coaching career, spawned an

unusual meeting in the Chronicle offices.

We felt we needed to formally discuss the rising chatter, on campus and nationally, about the decline in the team’s fortunes.

Specifically, we needed to discuss whether we believed Krzyzewski was up to the task of leading a big-time program—a question that increasing numbers of observers were starting to doubt. One by one, each member of the sports department offered a perspective, commencing a heated discussion.

In the end, despite the struggles on

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the court, the group was persuaded by one remarkable fact: the criticisms of Krzyzewski were almost all based on his record, from people who didn’t know him. Those who worked with him daily— his players, his assistant coaches, athletic director Butters, sports information director Tom Mickle and his deputy Johnny Moore—universally thought he was not just solid, but extraordinary. By the meeting’s conclusion, our consensus was that Krzyzewski was a good man who was making progress. He deserved more time. While anyone was free to write what he or she wanted individually, there would be no editorial voice of The Chronicle calling for a new coach that year.

It didn’t matter, of course. The only opinion that counted was Tom Butters’, and he never wavered, publicly or privately, from his opinion that he had the best young coach in America. Not during that 10-17 season in 1981-82, nor during the 11-17 season that followed.

What we didn’t know the day of that Chronicle meeting was how close Krzyzewski was to assembling the pieces of his first great team. The following month, he enticed Jay Bilas to commit to Duke.

Then Mark Alarie. Johnny Dawkins signed on next, and David Henderson rounded out the best recruiting class ever at Duke, at least until 2014. That group struggled in its first year—Krzyzewski’s third. The following year, however, they led Duke back to the NCAA tournament, starting a string of 30 tournament appearances in 31 years that made the anonymous guy in the camel-colored jacket the most successful college coach in history.

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On Success

Adapting for success: How Coach K keeps on winning Ryan Hoerger Sports Managing Editor Mike Krzyzewski’s Duke career did not get off to the best of starts.

The Blue Devils struggled through two losing seasons in his first three seasons in Durham, compiling an overall record of 38-47. A home loss to Wagner College in 1982 was particularly hard to swallow, and unhappy fans called for a change at the helm.

“It wasn’t like they played the best game they’ve ever played. And it wasn’t like it was a close game. They just beat us,” said forward Mark Alarie, a freshman on that year’s team. “I remember that being the low point of my Duke basketball experience because there were boosters, who will go unnamed, leaning over the rails telling Krzyzewski, ‘You’re fired!

You’re out of here!’”

Duke athletic director Tom Butters kept his faith in the young head coach, faith that Krzyzewski has spent the last 32 seasons proving well-placed. Beginning in 1983, his teams failed to win 20 games just twice. In that same stretch, there have been 13 30-win seasons, 13 ACC tournament championships, 11 Final Fours and four national championships.

And now, after his team’s 77-68 win against St. John’s, Krzyzewski stands alone— the first Division I men’s college basketball coach to register 1,000 career wins.

In his fourth decade on the Duke sideline, Krzyzewski has achieved unparalleled success because of his ability to adapt to the evolving landscape of college basketball, making the necessary adjustments to put his teams in the best position to win.

“He’s not afraid to change. One thing he tells our guys is that in order to become better, you have to change—you can’t do it the same way all the time,”

Chronicle File Photos From Grant Hill to Shane Battier to Kyrie Irving, Krzyzewski has always made an effort to recruit high-character players and has adapted to the new one-and-done format.

associate head coach Jeff Capel said.

“Our guys are willing to do that because they see him do it—they see how he’s changed year-in, year-out. The way we play changes. We don’t have a set system.

The system is set up by the players that we have and we adapt it to the kind of players that we have.”

Case in point: After the Blue Devils were beat repeatedly by Miami’s ball-screens in a Jan. 13 home loss, Krzyzewski made an abrupt departure from his trademark high-pressure man-to-man defense, opening in a 2-3 zone in Duke’s next game at Louisville. The switch worked, and the Blue Devils trotted it out again in their

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Despite not being a household name at the time, Krzyzewski began recruiting all over the country soon after landing in Durham. Living in Los Angeles, Jay Bilas didn’t get much exposure to Duke or Krzyzewski, competing in a conference 3,000 miles away.

“He sold me on himself. He obviously sold me on Duke being a great school and a great place to play and the ACC was the best conference, but I was looking at other schools,” Bilas said. “I just was deciding essentially on a coach, and he was the guy that I trusted the most.”

Bilas’ recruiting class—which included Alarie, Johnny Dawkins and David Henderson—started it all. The quartet suffered through an 11-17 freshman campaign, taking some lumps from ACC legends Michael Jordan and Ralph Sampson in the process, but grew up with a 24-10 sophomore season. As seniors, the group reached the Final Four for the first

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“Before you’re ever critical with your team, you say ‘Am I putting my players in the best position to be successful offensively and defensively?’” Krzyzewski said after the Louisville game, career win No. 998.

“Because I’m not a systems-oriented guy, I’m constantly working on that.”

In recent years, change has meant adjusting Duke’s offensive system to adapt to the personnel on the roster. The Blue Devils swung from utilizing the interior presence of Miles and Mason Plumlee to getting the ball into the hands of Jabari Parker and Rodney Hood with room to attack the basket. This season, it’s back to running the system through Jahlil Okafor in the post.

Krzyzewski has also responded to seismic shifts in the college game. The advent of the shot clock, the introduction of the 3-point line, the rise of the oneand-done—all of these alterations to the sport have affected his game plans and his

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In five of the next six seasons, the Blue Devils would reach the Final Four, finally cutting down the nets in 1991 and duplicating the feat in 1992.

From the beginning, Krzyzewski preached defense— one of few constants in his 35 years in Durham—and found gritty players to protect the basket. At its best, the Blue Devil defense was heart and hustle personified, with Steve Wojciechowski’s floor slaps and Shane Battier’s chase-down blocks the lasting images of Duke’s commitment on that end of the floor. “[Butters] must have seen in Coach what we have all watched now for decades—the ability to instill in his players, through hard work and preparation, the confidence and determination to play the game at the highest level,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver wrote in an email.

The Blue Devils’ success—coupled with the growth of the college game as televised entertainment—has turned Krzyzewski and the Duke program into an international brand, one that has endured despite offers to make the transition to the professional sideline.

Thirty-five seasons later, Krzyzewski no longer hits the recruiting trail as a coach looking to establish himself.

But he also doesn’t have the luxury of using all four years to integrate his top recruits into a cohesive system. With players bolting to the NBA after one season across college basketball—including three from Duke in the past four seasons—the yearly challenge of assembling a collection of talent into a team becomes more challenging when so many key pieces are moving in and out.

But despite a pair of recent early-round exits in the NCAA tournament, Krzyzewski has woven together 20win team after 20-win team.

“With that kind of longevity, to come in year-in and year-out and to continue to inspire, teach and mentor young men is certainly not an easy thing to do,” said Grant Hill, a member of two Duke national title teams. “It requires one being able to adapt and adjust. Every team, every era, every generation is different.”

And now, Krzyzewski has turned that mentorship and adaptability into 1,000 career wins. Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim will likely join him in that exclusive club in the near future, but until then, Krzyzewski stands alone in Division I men’s college basketball.

“To achieve 1,000 wins is unheard of. It’s unheard of.

It’s the true definition of consistency,” broadcaster Dick Vitale said. “What he’s achieved at Duke, I would certainly say if I was on TV: ‘It’s awesome baby, with a capital A!’” Nick Martin contributed reporting

Chronicle File Photo Despite the changing landscape of college basketball, Krzyzewski has managed to cultivate success yearly.

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Approaching the Summitt

Ever since Mike Krzyzewski captured career victory No. 903 to surpass his mentor, Bob Knight, Chronicle sports editors have received angry emails from readers when Krzyzewski is called the “all-time winningest head coach in college basketball.”

You read that correctly. Avid followers of Duke basketball, reading Duke’s student newspaper, were upset that they were bestowing the game’s highest honor on their beloved, iconic head coach?

Surprisingly, this is true, but unsurprisingly, because that statement is at best a half-truth.

Kzyzewski’s 903rd victory against Michigan State Nov. 15, 2011 made him the all-time winningest head coach in men’s Division I history. By earning career victory No. 1,000 Sunday against St. John’s, he is also the first coach in men’s Division I history to reach that mark.

But he is not the first. By winning his 1,000th game and reaching perhaps the greatest milestone of his career, Krzyzewski now sits just 98 wins behind former Tennessee women’s basketball head coach Pat Summitt for most wins in the history of college basketball.

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Elysia Su | The Chronicle Mike Krzyzewski and his wife Carol ‘Mickie’ Krzyzewski following his 1,00th career victory against St. John’s.

title as the most decorated man in college coaching? There are plenty of reasons, none of which are really that good. Sometimes we were lazy, others we lacked the specificity that is one of the

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hallmarks of good journalism. Maybe we thought adding one word would make the title too wordy, or maybe we subconsciously subscribed to the belief of many basketball pundits that the

men’s and women’s games are played so differently that they might as well be different sports.

Often, our readers’ pleas fell on deaf ears, likely out of stubbornness. Nobody likes to be told how to do their job, and journalists are a particularly headstrong breed—nothing is more aggravating than being fact-checked by a reader, except when that reader is right.

Realistically, the reasons why Summitt’s name isn’t heralded alongside college basketball’s coaching Mount Rushmore of John Wooden, Adolph Rupp, Dean Smith, Krzyzewski and Knight is likely rooted in sexism— whether because Summitt is a woman or coaches in the women’s game. But her coaching resume stands up to that of any man or woman in history.

Summitt led her teams to eight national titles, trailing only Wooden and Connecticut women’s head coach Geno Auriemma. In doing so, she won 1,098 games—an other-worldy 84.1 percent— in 38 seasons. She led the United States to the gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games and was named National Coach of the Year seven times, all while being paid and respected a fraction of her male counterparts.

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the way it is perceived. I bring Summitt’s accomplishments to light because it represents the last milestone Krzyzewski has to chase—his last mountain to climb.

Krzyzewski has always pursued nothing but championships—records and milestones have been nothing but the byproducts of that. But for a man who, at age 67, has had his career measured by countdowns to the next achievement, it might not be the worst thing in the world to have one record left to pursue.

A decade ago, many thought Krzyzewski would never coach long enough to reach this milestone, including Coach K himself—but a revitalization due in large part to his involvement with USA Basketball has left the college basketball world now questioning whether or not he’ll ever walk away from the game he loves.

Krzyzewski’s 903rd win came just three games into my freshman year, and it took him three-and-a-half seasons to win the 97 games to reach No. 1,000.

Another 97 victories will have Krzyzewski sitting on the doorstep of tying Summitt’s mark of 1,098.

Should Duke continue on its current pace, that would put Krzyzewski’s next record pursuit late in the 2017-18 or early in the 2018-19 season. Prior to last season, Krzyzewski made a commitment to Duke when he re-upped with USA Basketball through the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. After the Blue Devils were bounced from the NCAA tournament

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Chronicle Graphic by Brianna Siracuse Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski joins former Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt as the only Division I coaches to win 1,000 games throughout the course of their careers.

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THE FIRST KRZYZEWSKIVILLE Jodi Sarowitz

Most towns can trace their beginnings to a brave journey, a conquest or a search for a better life.

The history of Krzyzewskiville can be traced back to a game of quarters, 15 crazy undergraduates and a rented tent from U-Haul.

“It was common for people to line up hours before a game,” said Kimberly Reed, Trinity ‘86, who was one of the first tenters. “We were playing quarters one night at Mirecourt and joking about how early we were going to line up for the ‘86 [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] game. Finally, someone said, ‘Why don’t we just pitch a tent?’ After a few rounds of quarters, it began to sound like a good idea.”

Reed and about 15 of her friends, many of whom were members of the Air Force ROTC, rented a tent from U-Haul and set up camp in front of Cameron in March 1986.

“We were going to ask permission from Dean Sue, but then we just decided to ask forgiveness later,” she said.

The adventurous fans set up four tents in front of Cameron on Thursday for the Saturday game against UNC, and word began to spread around campus. By Friday, other tents began to pop up.

“Someone took a cardboard box and wrote Krzyzewskiville on it,” Reed said.

And so the tent city was named.

Chronicle File Photo The first remnants of Krzyzewskiville date back to March 1986, when five students decided to camp out for the upcoming Duke-Washington contest.

Although men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski brought pizza to the tenters, who were hiding a pony keg in a tent, the experience was not all fun and games.

“Some Carolina people heard what we were doing and came over and dumped ice-cold water on our tents. It was freezing out and we were soaked!” Reed said.

The students were rewarded with glory, though—not only did they get into

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the Carolina game, which Duke won 8274, but when the NBC truck came by to set up for the game, they saw the tents and put them on the evening news.

USA Today picked up the story, and the campers made the front page.

“By the time we got into the game, there were 75 tents up,” Reed said. “Our tents weren’t even in a real line, the four were just there as a group. Others lined

up behind us, though, and the line went along the Cameron parking lot, toward Kilgo Quad.”

Although Reed and her crew may have been the first hard-core “tenters,” they were not the first to make headlines by sleeping out before a Duke basketball game.

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The Chronicle Associated Students of Duke University, the precursor to Duke Student Government, began monitoring the lines at the basketball games, and the Cameron Crazies were chastised nationwide for their actions inside the stadium.

At least three of those fans slept outside in sleeping bags before the Carolina game. “It looked like a row of mummies,” the 1984 head line monitor then told The Chronicle. The Blue Devils almost beat top-ranked UNC that year, and Krzyzewski signed a five-year contract extension.

In 1985, four students made the front-page of The Chronicle for “risk[ing] life and limb Friday night camping out in line for the Duke-Washington basketball game.”

By gametime, hundreds of students had camped out for the nationally televised game, and more than a dozen tents were set up on the grass in front of Card Gym, many supplied with heat and electricity.

From a few sleeping bags in line, to a few tents, to Reed’s mini tent-city, to the community that is Krzyzewskiville today, Krzyzewskiville has evolved over the years. “I think that Krzyzewskiville has certainly earned its place in the list of Duke traditions—it would surprise me if it disappears any time soon,” said Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs.

Krzyzewskiville has become a complex community with rules and policy that are pages long. The “boss” of Krzyzewskiville, the head line monitor, even holds a cabinet-level position in Duke Student Government.

“Krzyzewskiville has gotten larger over the years, more policy oriented and somewhat more bureaucratic,” Wasiolek said. “It has evolved into somewhat of a neighborhood, with issues and challenges that face any neighborhood, such as neighborhood relations, crime, sanitation and appearance.”

Reed and her friends did not envision their tenting experience to lead to anything this large. “Our original intention was to get into the game, but the tenting was awesome,” Reed said. “We just thought it would be easier to sleep out there—it didn’t cross our minds that people would start doing this.”

To Duke students, tenting has become a passion.

DSG created a tenting policy that is updated yearly, and Krzyzewskiville is often featured in Nike advertisements and national news stories.

“In many ways, Krzyzewskiville embodies the positive spirit of college athletics,” Wasiolek said. “Duke has been known for its commitment to basketball and Krzyzewskiville is very symbolic of that spirit and that passion.”

Reed now works at UNC, but her loyalty has not changed since her nights in the tent.

“I hate them now more than ever,” she said. “There is a great big sign in my office that says ‘Go to Hell Carolina’ and I have a piece of Cameron. My blood runs Duke blue.”

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McLeod responded by driving to the hoop on offense and denying Jamison the ball on defense. After flashing past Jamison for the go-ahead points with one minute left, he sported the crazed scowl of a man possessed.

He then made ‘possession’ a catchword for the Blue Devils, tying up Vince Carter to give Duke the ball on the alternating-possession rule. Although the Blue Devils failed to score, McLeod again made things tough for the Heels, tying up Carter on the next possession to force UNC into an out-of-bounds situation.

By doing so, he helped his team win the ACC regularseason championship and keep a lock on the top spot in the national rankings.

“Everyone gave their word that we are going to be national champions this year,” McLeod said. “Tonight, we played like we were.”

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