Mike Krzyzewski biography
Mike Krzyzewski, byname of Michael William Krzyzewski, additionally known as Coach Ok, (born February 13, 1947, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American faculty basketball coach who amassed essentially the most teaching victories in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I males’s basketball historical past whereas main the Duke University Blue Devils to 5 nationwide championships (1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, and 2015) and 12 Final Four (championship semifinals) berths.
As a high-school basketball participant, Krzyzewski led Chicago’s Catholic League in scoring for 2 years. He performed collegiately on the United States Military Academy (Army) underneath legendary coach Bob Knight. He coached service groups and the U.S. Military Academy Prep School for 5 years, then was Knight’s assistant at Indiana University for one season earlier than Army employed Krzyzewski in 1975.
He was a stunning choice in 1980 to teach Duke—on Knight’s recommendation—and his profession there started shakily with no recruits in 1981 and a mixed document of 21–34 the subsequent two seasons. But Krzyzewski’s fourth Duke group, in 1983–84, went 24–10 and started a streak of 11 consecutive seasons with not less than 20 victories and NCAA event berths. He led the Blue Devils to 5 consecutive Final Fours between 1988 and 1992, the second longest such streak in NCAA historical past. Included in that run had been the college’s first two nationwide championships, coming in 1991 and 1992. The second championship-winning group went 34–2 and was the top-ranked group within the nation for the whole season.
The Blue Devils reached the nationwide championship recreation once more in the course of the 1993–94 season however misplaced to the University of Arkansas. Duke went 13–18 the next season as Krzyzewski missed 19 video games because of again surgical procedure, and the Blue Devils didn't take part in March Madness for the primary time since 1982–83. Krzyzewski guided Duke to more and more higher event finishes over the subsequent 4 years, ending in one other nationwide championship recreation berth in 1998–99, the place the Blue Devils had been defeated by the University of Connecticut. Duke returned to the ultimate in 2000–01, beating the University of Arizona to win its third title. In 2005 Krzyzewski received his document 66th profession NCAA event recreation. He turned the fourth NCAA Division I coach to garner 800 profession victories in 2008, and two years later he directed Duke to the college’s fourth nationwide championship. In 2011 he received his 903rd profession recreation to cross Knight because the winningest coach in Division I historical past. In 2014–15 Duke went 35–4 and captured a fifth nationwide title underneath Krzyzewski.
In addition to his collegiate teaching success, Krzyzewski led the U.S. males’s nationwide group to gold medals on the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic Games and on the 2010 and 2014 world championships (generally known as the World Cup for the 2014 iteration). He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001.