Mike Krzyzewski sat on a golf cart with his wife Mickie, surrounded by media members, in his last public moment as Duke’s head coach.
As the golf cart pulled away, Krzyzewski joked about superimposing a sunset behind him. And just before he drove out of earshot, he added two more words.
“Thank you.”
Coach K was one of the lone Blue Devils not to be teary-eyed in the aftermath of his final game as head coach, a stunning 81–77 Final Four defeat to arch-rival North Carolina in an all-time epic showdown that will be remembered in college basketball lore forever.