Roy Williams speaks after reports that Mike Krzyzewski will retire after next season
Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski will retire after the 2021-2022 basketball season, according to a tweet from the stadium's Jeff Goodman on Wednesday.
BREAKING: Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has decided to retire after this coming season, multiple sources told @stadium. Official announcement expected soon.
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) June 2, 2021
The leading candidate to replace K is assistant and former Duke player Jon Scheyer.
Krzyzewski has served as Duke's head coach since 1980, and in his 40-year career with the Blue Devils, he has won five national championships and 1,170 victories, the most by any Division I college basketball coach. is.
Krzyzewski's retirement would come just one season after Roy Williams retired as head coach of the North Carolina men's basketball program. The Hall of Famers competed against each other for 18 seasons in one of the fiercest rivalries in the game.
Williams guided the Tar Heels to three national championships and retired as the third winning head coach in Division I men's basketball history, with a total of 903 wins in 33 seasons – behind only Krzyzewski and Syracuse's Jim Boehm. .
"Mike has been fantastic for the game of basketball, he has been fantastic for college basketball, he has been fantastic for the ACC and the biggest rivalry in the game, Duke and North Carolina basketball," Williams said on Wednesday. "He's been a good friend. He's been a person I respected immensely. He brought everyone his A-game for years and years."
According to a tweet by ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, Krzyzewski is working with university officials to finalize a search process and name John Scherer as his successor.
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
Sheyer, 33, played for Duke from 2006-2010 and has been on the coaching staff since the 2013-2014 season. He was named the program's associate head coach in 2018.