Duke will be without Mike Krzyzewski for up to a month following back surgery this Friday, as a nagging herniated disc wasn’t healing after weeks of non-surgical remedies. It’s somewhat odd to think that the program Coach K built is, in many ways, built for life without Coach K. His top lieutenant has been a head coach before. He has kited off for extended Olympic-related absences and left the preparation and improvement of his players, not to mention the day-to-day business of running the operation, to his assistants in Durham. And the 2016–17 version of the Blue Devils certainly seems to have enough talent to cope with this interruption.
Coach K's injury is the latest setback in a disjointed Duke season
