Tag: Mike Krzyzewski

Duke’s Coach K apologizes after yelling at Cameron Crazies to ‘shut up,’ for chanting at Pitt coach

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is apologetic following the No. 9 Blue Devils’ 79-67 win versus Pittsburgh. The Hall of Fame coach interrupted the Cameron Crazies’ “Sit with us,” chant during the first half of Tuesday night’s game.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is apologetic following the No. 9 Blue Devils’ 79-67 win versus Pittsburgh. The Hall of Fame coach interrupted the Cameron Crazies’ “Sit with us,” chant during the first half of Tuesday night’s game.

Jeff Capel had no problem with the Cameron Crazies chant that infuriated Coach K

Capel responded on Twitter.

Jeff Capel is a Duke legend.

He was beloved a player and was a Blue Devils assistant starting  in 2011 until he was hired by Pittsburgh to be the Panthers’ head coach in 2018.

So you could understand why Duke’s die-hard fan section, the Cameron Crazies, would target Capel with a cheer during Tuesday’s game, a chant — “Jeff Capel, sit with us” — that was all in good fun.

You could also understand why Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski might misinterpret that chant as taking a shot at a Duke legend, which is why Coach K went off, screaming at the Crazies to “shut up!!!”

Krzyzewski apologized, thinking the chant was personal and suggested other chants:

Capel later tweeted he took “no offense” and retweeted a note a Duke fan had snapped from the “dirt sheet” that the student section gets to taunt opponents, which said “nothing bad to say here, love you Capel”:

It was all a big misunderstanding.

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Duke’s new alternate jerseys are so good

These are the best jerseys in college basketball.

It’s hard to make a good alternate jersey. Sometimes they can lean too hard into certain themes. Other times they aren’t doing enough. And, more often than not, they commemorate something that doesn’t really matter — just look at the NBA’s City Jerseys.

But this new Duke alternate jersey is so incredibly good. It’s perfection. This is exactly what an alternate jersey is supposed to look like.

They dropped these new “Brotherhood” jerseys in commemoration of the four decades head coach Mike Krzyzewski has been with the program.

They’re jaw dropping. Everything from the navy blue color to the gothic “Duke” font and the subtle “brotherhood” on the shorts. They’ve got it all.

The school revealed their new jerseys on Twitter in a video ahead of their game against Wake Forest on Saturday night.

I only have two comments here. The first one is that Duke doesn’t deserve these jerseys. They’re too good for a program that is so easily hateable.

The second one: Zion Williamson deserved to wear this jersey last year and we deserve to see him in it. We need to demand that the Pelicans, a squad loaded with Duke players, wear these when he finally returns to the team.

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College basketball fans had jokes about Coach K’s final play design in loss to Stephen F. Austin

The whiteboard showed a messy design for the final play.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski clearly had a vision of how the Blue Devils’ final play would go against Stephen F. Austin on Tuesday night. But it’s fair to say that play did not go as Coach K planned. And perhaps that because it looked like a little messy when he drew it up during the final timeout.

The broadcast showed the coach’s play design on his whiteboard during the final stoppage of the game. It was, of course, designed for what would be Duke’s final and failed possession. Duke couldn’t even get off a shot. The Blue Devils turned over a pass to the paint with roughly six seconds remaining. Stephen F. Austin recovered the errant pass, and ran the ball in transition for a buzzer-beating layup and the 85-83 win.

Here’s a look at what the play looked like in real life.

And here’s how Coach K drew it up.

Krzyzewski gave credit to Stephen F. Austin during a postgame interview at Cameron Indoor Stadium, via The Duke Chronicle:

“We were not good, and [Stephen F. Austin] made us that way. This isn’t just about us not showing up or whatever. They played really well. Sometimes when I’m talking about what we didn’t do, I don’t want to disrespect their performance. Their performance was outstanding and they deserve recognition for that, not that we didn’t do something. They did it to us. They made us look bad.”

They did, indeed.

Because of the messy appearance of the play, NCAA basketball fans didn’t hold punches for Krzyzewski.

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