Duke men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski will retire after the next season, according to reporters with Stadium and ESPN.
Coach K, as he’s called, has led the Blue Devils for 41 seasons, according to the university.
Krzyzewski has led the team to the Final Four 12 times, and they won the national championship five times.
BREAKING: Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has decided to retire after this coming season, multiple sources told @stadium. Official announcement expected soon.
The leading candidate to replace K is assistant and former Duke player Jon Scheyer.
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) June 2, 2021
The announcement comes two months after North Carolina coach Roy Williams announced his retirement.
Stadium reporter Jeff Goodman, who first reported the retirement, said, Duke assistant coach Jon Scheyer is in line to take over as head coach.
As @GoodmanHoops is reporting, Mike Krzyzewski plans to retire after the 2021-2022 season. Krzyzewski is finalizing a search process with university officials to name Duke’s associate head coach Jon Scheyer as the coach-in-waiting, sources tell ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 2, 2021
Krzyzewski took over as the head coach for Duke men’s basketball in 1980.
