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Duke basketball: Critics roast Coach K for so-called 'excuse'

After No. 1 Duke defeated Winthrop, 83-70, at home on Friday night, Duke Maven's Shawn Krest reported on a postgame comment from Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski.

At the tail end of Krzyzewski's postgame press conference, the 72-year-old mentioned his health from three days prior when Stephen F. Austin had marched into Cameron Indoor Stadium and knocked off the previously unbeaten Blue Devils in overtime, 65-63, snapping the program's 150-game non-conference home win streak that dated back nearly 20 years.

Answering a question about how he dealt with the shaken confidences of freshmen Wendell Moore, Cassius Stanley, Matthew Hurt, and Vernon Carey Jr.