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Former Duke player describes Coach K's way of dumbing down March Madness bracket into micro tournaments
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Looking at 68 teams in a March Madness bracket can be pretty overwhelming, especially for those playing in the tournament.
However, former Duke player Jay Bilas said his legendary former head coach, Mike Krzyzewski, had a brilliant way of dumbing it down to take the pressure off the Blue Devils.
Former Duke player describes Coach K's way of dumbing down March Madness bracket into micro tournaments
Looking at 68 teams in a March Madness bracket can be pretty overwhelming, especially for those playing in the tournament.
However, former Duke player Jay Bilas said his legendary former head coach, Mike Krzyzewski, had a brilliant way of dumbing it down to take the pressure off the Blue Devils.
"I played for Coach K at Duke and in 1986, my senior year, that was the second year of the 64-team bracket," Bilas told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "And he broke the tournament down to basically a four-team tournament the first weekend. He talked about the opposite side of our bracket, the 32 teams opposite our side and said, ‘Look at all those teams in there,’ and started talking about how good some of them were. And then he goes, 'Who cares? Only one team is coming out of there. Only one team comes out of there. Whatever happens, fine. We'll play that one team on Monday night for the championship.'
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If Jon Scheyer feels any Duke basketball pressure, Coach K can relate
Three years into Mike Krzyzewski’s tenure as Duke’s basketball coach, he hadn’t sniffed the NCAA Tournament as Bill Foster’s successor. The local media cranked up the heat ahead of a pivotal Year 4.
The Durham Sun noted Krzyzewski had benefited from mostly “favorable press” up to that point, but it was time to start winning — or face the music. A headline in the Sun after Duke lost 17 games in Krzyzewski’s third season blared: Pressure builds for Krzyzewski to win.
As sportswriter Al Featherston wrote, Krzyzewski “has produced few miracles,” although the scribe added it was too soon to label him “a loser.” The hometown newspaper ramped up criticism of Krzyzewski’s insistence on playing man-to-man defense, as the hot seat made its way to Duke.
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