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Mike Krzyzewski

1947 - Today

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Michael William Krzyzewski (US: shizh-EF-skee, Polish: [kʂɨˈʐɛfskʲi]; born February 13, 1947), nicknamed "Coach K", is an American former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at Duke University from 1980 to 2022, during which he led the Blue Devils to five national titles, 13 Final Fours (the most of any coach in men's basketball), 15 ACC tournament championships, and 13 ACC regular season titles. Among men's college basketball coaches, only UCLA's John Wooden has won more NCAA championships, with a total of ten. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mike Krzyzewski has received more than 8,920,635 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mike Krzyzewski is the 210th most popular basketball player (down from 148th in 2019), the 9,320th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,032nd in 2019) and the 125th most popular American Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Mike Krzyzewski ranks 210 out of 1,268Before him are Frank Ramsey, Fernando Martín Espina, Sergejus Jovaiša, Nelson Demarco, Walt Davis, and Shawn Bradley. After him are Ruy de Freitas, Pablo Laso, Ivan Edeshko, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Penny Hardaway, and Jim Loscutoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Mike Krzyzewski ranks 624Before him are Anne Fine, Shmuel Rosenthal, Fabián Alarcón, Kinga Göncz, Ildo Maneiro, and Antti Kalliomäki. After him are Kim Darby, Jacques-Édouard Alexis, Tamotsu Suzuki, Richard Overy, Erika Lechner, and Roky Erickson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mike Krzyzewski ranks 9,320 out of 18,182Before him are Alexandra Breckenridge (1982), Roger Smith (1932), Ellsworth Vines (1911), George Fisher (1970), Tress MacNeille (1951), and Tom Vilsack (1950). After him are Lewis H. Brereton (1890), Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905), Nicholle Tom (1978), Louise Lorraine (1904), Sam Simon (1955), and N. C. Wyeth (1882).

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Mike Krzyzewski ranks 125Before him are Jermaine O'Neal (1978), Chris Webber (1973), Larry Johnson (1969), Clyde Lovellette (1929), Frank Ramsey (1931), and Walt Davis (1931). After him are Penny Hardaway (1971), Jim Loscutoff (1930), Carl Knowles (1910), Slater Martin (1925), Christian Laettner (1969), and Don Meineke (1930).