Mike Krzyzewski is the greatest coach in college basketball history, a record-book fixture with rings on his fingers and fingerprints all over the game, a revered figure who’s won more games than anybody else in the sport — and on Saturday night in New Orleans, the North Carolina Tar Heels cared about none of that.
They cared not for the hype around a Final Four matchup for the ages, nor for the spotlights that illuminated it, nor the deafening noise that greeted it.
They beat their archrival, Duke, 81-77 in this national semifinal, and sent Coach K into retirement.