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UNC Basketball: Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski to retire in 2022

By Blake Cockrum

DURHAM, NC - MARCH 03: (L-R) Head coach Mike Krzyzewski of the Duke Blue Devils talks to head coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels before their game at Cameron Indoor Stadium on March 3, 2018 in Durham, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
DURHAM, NC - MARCH 03: (L-R) Head coach Mike Krzyzewski of the Duke Blue Devils talks to head coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels before their game at Cameron Indoor Stadium on March 3, 2018 in Durham, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /
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Former UNC basketball head coach Roy Williams and Duke Blue Devils’ lead man Mike Krzyzewski to retire within one year of each other.

Legendary Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski will retire upon completion of the 2021-22 college hoops season, according to a Wednesday afternoon tweet from Stadium’s Jeff Goodman.

Krzyzewski, famously and sometimes affectionately known simply as “Coach K,” has been the Blue Devils’ head coach since 1980, and led the program to 1,097 wins to just 302 losses. He led his team to 24 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances from 1996 to 2019, and has a record 94 victories in the Big Dance. He’s got 15 ACC Tournament titles to his resume, as well as 12 regular season conference titles. His teams have reached the NCAA Final Four a dozen times, and won five NCAA Tournament titles (1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, 2015).

Krzyzewski is a three-time Naismith College Coach of the Year winner, and a five-time ACC Coach of the Year. He was a 2006 inductee into the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and was enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame five years earlier. He coached Team USA to Gold Medals in the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, and was the assistant coach for the United States’ Gold Medal-winning squads in 1984 and 1992.

Including the time that Krzyzewski spent coaching the Army basketball program at West Point, he’s got an all-time best 1,170 victories, and a .764 winning percentage in 46 seasons. Krzyzewski will be 75 at the time of his retirement next year. He and Roy Williams, who unceremoniously retired following the 2020-21 season, will walk away from the game within one year of each other. They have a combined 2,073 career victories, and eight national titles.

Current Duke assistant coach and former Blue Devils guard Jon Scheyer is believed to be the program’s coach-in-waiting, and Goodman states that an announcement naming him the team’s next head coach could come as soon as this afternoon.

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