DURHAM, N.C. – The always-busy Mike Krzyzewski has a lot on his plate — even for him.
He’s trying to lead a young Duke team to a fourth consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference tournament title, attempting to lead the U.S. national team to back-to-back Olympic gold medals and is on the verge of becoming the winningest men’s basketball coach in Division I history.
And the record is all anyone wants to talk about, except Krzyzewski.
The longtime Duke coach is about to pass Bob Knight, but Krzyzewski, a point guard on Knight’s Army teams in the 1960s, downplays the milestone because he said his mentor should have more victories.
“I can put the wins record in perspective, because Coach is my coach,” Krzyzewski said in an interview with The Associated Press. “And I know if he had stayed at Indiana, he might still be coaching, and he would have had I don’t know how many wins, and no one would have won as many games as him.”
Pretty soon they’ll say the same thing about Krzyzewski, who enters his 37th season as a college coach with a record of 900-284 — two victories shy of Knight. He can tie him Nov. 12 at home against Presbyterian
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