The college basketball world is going through a changing of the guard.
And the latest earthquake has rocked Tobacco Road.
First, Roy Williams of North Carolina, who won three national championships, retired two months ago at age 70. Now, word out of Durham is that Mike Krzyzewski of neighboring Duke, perhaps the most iconic college basketball coach in the modern era of the sport, will retire at the end of the 2021-22 season. Coach K, who will be 75, is the winningest coach in college basketball history with 1,170 victories, with all but 73 coming at the ACC school. He has also coached the Blue Devils to five NCAA Tournament championships and won three gold medals in the 2008, 2012 and 2016 summer Olympics.
Dick Weiss is a sportswriter and columnist who has covered college football and college and professional basketball for the Philadelphia Daily News and the New York Daily News. He has received the Curt Gowdy Award from the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and is a member of the national Sportswriters Hall of Fame. He has also co-written several books with Rick Pitino, John Calipari, Dick Vitale and authored a tribute book on Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.
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