Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski will retire after this coming season, according to a report from Stadium on Wednesday, ending a wildly successful run that began more than 40 years ago and included more than 1,000 wins and five national championships.
Krzyzewski, 74, is the winningest coach in college basketball history with 1,170 victories, with all but 73 coming with the Blue Devils.
After three rebuilding seasons to start his tenure, which began in 1980, Krzyzewski led Duke to the men’s NCAA Tournament in every year but one from 1984 through 2019. Duke went 13-11 during the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 year and failed to reach the tournament for the first time since the 1994-95 season, which Krzyzewski largely missed due to exhaustion and a lingering back injury.