Remembering Coach K’s first season at Duke

SportsXtra from the vault: Coach K hired as new Duke basketball coach

On March 18, 1980, Duke director of athletics Tom Butters took a chance and hired a little-known 33-year-old coach from Army named Mike Krzyzewski to lead its basketball program.

“If you go back and read the columns, people were like, ‘Who is this guy? We can’t even pronounce his name,'” said college basketball writer John Feinstein. …read more

Source:: WRAL

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