The Making of Coach K

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🗓️ 4 March 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 12 Final Fours, and turned Duke University into one of the most iconic institutions in American life. And now, as Coach K prepares to say goodbye to the program he built at Duke, Wright Thompson takes us back to share where he came from, what it means for his reign to come to an end, and the legacy he’ll leave behind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, Thompson, Coach K., Mike Shoshchevsky, has been coaching Duke basketball for longer than I have been on this planet.
0:06.7	He's been doing it for over four decades at this point, and his last home game at Cameron Indoor Stadium is this weekend.
0:16.3	But I wanted to start with the beginning of the whole farewell tour, with Madison Square Garden,
0:22.0	with Duke and Kentucky, because you were there, like, traveling the tunnels with Coach Kay.
0:27.3	What was that night like?
0:28.8	It's very cool, and Pablo, you've been a Madison Square Garden before, but I always get a buzz
0:36.2	in Madison Square Garden.
0:37.7	It is a packed house, and I mean a packed house at Madison Square Garden.
0:43.0	And now it is time for Kentucky and Duke.
0:46.5	And it is hopping in here right now.
0:48.8	You do feel like you were at the center of something.
0:52.6	Heels.
0:54.4	We have seen it time and time again tonight from the freshman.
0:58.7	And so, you know, the game is over.
1:00.7	He finishes his post-game press conference.
1:02.6	I think if those two guys would do that more,
1:06.3	would be better.
1:08.0	But he's going to keep going to better.
1:10.3	All right.
1:10.5	Thank you.
1:11.6	It's that fabulous, you know, you've won the first game of the season.
1:17.6	You know, you've got the stereo playing loud in the locker room.
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