The Making of Coach K (Re-Spin)

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🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Love him or hate him, the mark that Mike Krzyzewski has left on men’s college basketball is indelible. Nobody has won more Division I men’s college basketball games than Coach K; he has won five national titles, made 13 Final Fours, and turned Duke University into one of the most iconic institutions in American life. And now, with his retirement imminent, he heads into his final Final Four, where he and Duke will take on their biggest rival North Carolina. In this special encore presentation, Wright Thompson takes us back to share exactly where Coach K came from, what it means for his reign to come to an end, and the legacy he’ll leave behind. This episode originally ran on March 4, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Pablo here. Yeah, look, I know it's Saturday. It is your Saturday. Usually it's our
0:07.8	Saturday, too, and off day at ESPN daily. But tonight is bringing us like the most insanely
0:14.1	anticipated Final Four game and possibly college basketball game, period ever, between North
0:18.9	Carolina and Duke. And so we are bringing you an updated presentation of an episode we ran just a couple
0:25.4	weeks ago.
0:26.5	Just before the last time, these two teams played.
0:29.7	It is a conversation with the inimitable Wright Thompson, who spent most of his college
0:34.3	basketball season basically stalking Mike Shaseskisky as he embarked
0:38.3	on his 42nd and final season as Duke's head coach. It's a story that uncovers a lot that I didn't
0:44.4	know about Coach K, and it feels only fitting to revisit it as he tries to add a storybook ending
0:51.5	to an unparalleled and very hated career.
0:56.0	It is Saturday, April 2nd.
0:58.9	This is ESPN Daily.
1:06.2	Right, Thompson, Coach K, Mike Shoshchevsky.
1:09.6	He's been coaching Duke basketball for longer than I have
1:12.7	been on this planet. He's been doing it for over four decades at this point. And we all know
1:17.4	that we're watching his swan song, his last dance in college basketball right now. But I wanted
1:24.7	to start with you at the beginning of this whole farewell tour at Madison Square Garden with Duke taking on Kentucky and you were there like traveling the tunnels with Coach K. What was that night like?
1:38.4	It's very cool and Pablo, you've been a Madison Square Garden before, but I always get a buzz in Madison Square Garden.
1:47.3	It is a packed house, and I mean a packed house at Madison Square Garden.
1:52.4	And now it is time for Kentucky and Duke.
1:56.1	And it is hopping in here right now.
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