Duke Blue Devils basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski plans to retire after season, sources say

Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, who’s the winningest coach in Division I males’s basketball historical past and has led the Blue Devils to 5 nationwide championships in his 41 seasons, plans to retire after the 2023-22 season, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Wednesday.

Affiliate head coach Jon Scheyer has agreed to turn into the subsequent head coach at Duke, sources informed ESPN. He’ll spend the 2023-22 season as coach-in-waiting and can take over after that.

Duke talked to exterior candidates about changing 74-year-old Krzyzewski, together with Harvard coach Tommy Amaker, sources informed ESPN. Scheyer, nonetheless, was the lead recruiter on such stars as Jayson Tatum and Zion Williamson and is Duke’s alternative to switch Coach Ok, sources mentioned.

Stadium first reported that Krzyzewski is planning to retire after subsequent season.

Krzyzewski, a Naismith Corridor of Fame coach who has 1,097 profession wins at Duke, has taken the Blue Devils to the Last 4 on 12 events. He has gained 12 regular-season ACC championships and 15 convention event titles whereas producing 28 NBA lottery picks — and 41 first-round alternatives — through the years.

Having 5 nationwide titles places him second solely to former UCLA coach John Wood, who gained 10.

“Mike’s been implausible for the sport of basketball,” retired North Carolina coach Roy Williams informed reporters Wednesday after the Professional-Am for the Korn Ferry Tour cease in Raleigh, North Carolina. “… He’s been good friend. He’s been a man I’ve revered a fantastic deal. He made everyone convey their A-game for years and years and years. … He’s simply been phenomenal in the whole lot he’s carried out.”

Employed at Duke in Might 1980, “Coach Ok” gained nationwide championships in 1991, 1992, 2001, 2010 and 2015, whereas setting the lads’s profession teaching victories report in November 2011.

He has tailor-made his method to adapt with the instances and his personnel. He gained the 2010 title with a senior-laden roster, then claimed the 2015 one after pivoting to extra “one-and-done” expertise that headed to the NBA after a lone faculty season enjoying in Duke’s famously hostile Cameron Indoor Stadium.

His tally of 97 NCAA event wins ranks No. 1 amongst all coaches, as does his 126 weeks atop the Related Press Prime 25 ballot.

Total, together with his 5 seasons as head coach at Military firstly of his profession, Krzyzewski has a 1,170-361 report.

Alongside the way in which, he additionally took over the U.S. males’s nationwide group — with NBA All-Star rosters that includes names such because the late Kobe Bryant and LeBron James — and led it to Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008, London in 2012 and Rio de Janiero in 2016.

Duke missed the NCAA event this previous season for the primary time since 1995, however the Blue Devils welcome one of many nation’s high recruiting lessons for the approaching season.

Scheyer performed for Krzyzewski from 2006-10, together with his final season leading to his mentor’s fourth NCAA title. Scheyer joined the Duke employees for the 2013-14 season and rose to his present function after the 2017-18 season.

He served as interim coach final yr for Duke when Krzyzewski was sidelined for a January win towards Boston Faculty as a consequence of COVID-19 protocols. Scheyer has by no means been a school head coach.

The information about Krzyzewski comes nearly two months to the day that Williams, one other Corridor of Famer within the state, introduced his retirement after 33 seasons with Kansas and the Tar Heels.

“The one factor improper with Mike Krzyzewski is that he doesn’t play golf,” Williams informed reporters Wednesday. “Michael doesn’t want Roy Williams giving him recommendation. He’s a fantastic household man. He’s going to take pleasure in his household a fantastic deal. He’ll nonetheless be necessary in faculty athletics. He’ll nonetheless be necessary to varsity basketball.”

The Related Press contributed to this report.