This marks the first preseason in 48 years in which Mike Krzyzewski is not a Division I men's college basketball head coach. The legendary Duke coach left the game in April after having recorded a rather staggering 1,202 career victories.
Then again, "staggering" doesn't mean "unreachable." On the women's side of the college game, for example, Stanford's Tara VanDerveer (with 1,157 career wins) and UConn's Geno Auriemma (1,149) are both fast approaching Coach K's mark.
In men's college hoops, conversely, no one's quite that close to catching Krzyzewski just yet. Nevertheless, with Coach K now retired at age 75, his coaching peers at least have a stable number to target.