DURHAM, NC – MARCH 05: Head coach Mike Krzyzewski (C) of the Duke Blue Devils walks off the courtroom following a pre-game ceremony previous to their sport towards the North Carolina Tar Heels at Cameron Indoor Stadium on March 5, 2022 in Durham, North Carolina. Krzyzewski is ready to retire on the conclusion of this season and this sport will probably be his final at Cameron Indoor Stadium. (Picture by Lance King/Getty Photographs)
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As Mike Krzyzewski and the Duke Blue Devils get set to face the North Carolina Tar Heels within the Closing 4, Coach Okay faces some attention-grabbing rivalry stakes.
The Duke Blue Devils and the North Carolina Tar Heels are getting ready for a fairly large rivalry matchup. For the primary time ever, Duke and North Carolina will meet up within the NCAA Males’s Basketball Event.
That will be fascinating no matter what spherical of the NCAA Event it came about in, however this assembly will probably be within the Closing 4.
The stakes are fairly excessive right here. Whichever workforce wins will advance on and compete within the nationwide championship sport. Whoever loses will then go house and have to observe their rival try and win a title.
Fairly massive deal, proper?
To make issues much more attention-grabbing, this matchup has even increased rivalry stakes than simply that. Because it seems, Mike Krzyzewski provides one other degree of curiosity to this assembly between the Blue Devils and Tar Heels.
Saturday will the a hundredth sport between North Carolina and Duke since Mike Krzyzewski was employed in 1980.
Naturally, the collection has been shut in that span…
Wins:
Duke – 50
North Carolina – 49
Factors:
Duke – 7,784
North Carolina – 7,763
— Bryan Ives (@awaytoworthy) March 27, 2022
Closing 4: Duke vs. North Carolina has main rivalry implications for Mike Krzyzewski
As Bryan Ives factors out on Twitter, this will probably be Coach Okay’s a hundredth time going through off towards North Carolina. Thus far, he has received yet another sport towards the Tar Heels than he’s misplaced.
Which means if Duke wins this Closing 4 assembly, Krzyzewski will be capable to retire with a successful report over his rival. Ought to the Tar Heels come out on prime, Coach Okay may have solely been capable of tie his rival all through his profession and his last assembly with North Carolina could be a loss.
No massive deal, proper?
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