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Indeed, while our previous chapter of America's Best focused on the steely intellectualism of science, our journalists found that this one had a powerful emotional component. When writer-reporter Josh Tyrangiel interviewed Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski about influences on his life, he spoke tearfully about his mom, showing a rarely seen side of the indomitable Coach K. "I've watched his Duke teams physically and psychologically destroy my beloved Maryland Terrapins for years now," says Tyrangiel. "During the interview, I felt like I should be the one crying." Observes Beyer: "The thing that struck me as the most...
Anyone who doesn't think the referees have given Duke the benefit of the doubt this year should remember the words of coach Mike Krzyzewski himself. In 1984, when Duke first began to show signs of future greatness, Krzyzewski publicly railed on ACC officiating, provlaiming to all that there was a double standard in the conference--and North Carolina was the sole beneficiary...
Fact is, the coach was right. Carolina, consistently among the greatest programs in college basketball, did get the benefit of the doubt back then, much to the chagrin of ABCers across the country. Krzyzewski's famous outcry won him a degree of national respect and, more than anything, established Duke as that intended to nto just compete with the North Carolina of the basketball, but to beat them...
...Krzyzewski is a brilliant coach. Expect him to field championship cailber teams for years to come. Expect Dick Vitale to predict Duke to win it all every year...
Just ask Corey Maggette, who left after one season at Duke, how much better his game would be had he stayed in coach Mike Krzyzewski's program the last two years...