It has been more than 47 years since the June day in 1969 when Mike Krzyzewski graduated from West Point and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army.
He has gone on to become one of basketball's most iconic figures—a coach with more wins than anyone who has ever coached college basketball at the Division I level, someone who has become a one-name star: "Coach K," no further introduction needed.
And yet, all these years later, Capt. Michael William Krzyzewski, U.S. Army (ret.) will tell you there isn't a day that goes by that he doesn't think about his alma mater and how fortunate he was that his parents convinced him to go to a college he had zero interest in attending.