SPORTS | BASKETBALL
Blue Devils slide past Vols
By Sports Staff | November 22, 2011The Volunteers entered last night’s game against Duke having nailed 26 3-pointers in their opening two contests.
The Volunteers entered last night’s game against Duke having nailed 26 3-pointers in their opening two contests.
Head coach Mike Krzyzewski quipped that at halftime of his team’s 82-69 victory over Davidson, he was not sure that there was going to be a celebration.
One week after Belmont nearly upset Duke on its home floor, the Blue Devils received a scare from another well-coached mid-major program.
Now, the focus can finally shift from Krzyzewski’s historic pursuit to his team, beginning with Friday’s contest against Davidson (2-0). And Krzyzewski wouldn’t have it any other way.
When it was all over, Mike Krzyzewski pushed through the crowd of photographers surrounding him to find Bob Knight, his former coach and the man whose record he had just broken.
It seems fitting that Mike Krzyzewski’s first shot at his 903rd career head coaching victory will come in the first game of a doubleheader, a throwback to earlier days of college basketball.
The mood in Duke’s locker room following a 77-76 victory over Belmont could be characterized by one word—relief.
Bob Knight had a special message for Mike Krzyzewski when the two spoke during a prerecording of Duke head coach’s radio show earlier in the season.
With just over eight minutes remaining in Saturday’s win over Presbyterian, Coach K Court shook after a Miles Plumlee dunk put Duke ahead by 40 points.