A year after his retirement, one of college basketball’s giants will be enshrined in its Hall of Fame.
Longtime Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski leads the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2023, the Kansas City-based museum announced Tuesday morning. Krzyzewski, 76, is the winningest coach in the history of Division I men’s college basketball.
He will be joined in the Hall by former North Carolina forward Tyler Hansbrough, former Blue Devils guard Johnny Dawkins, legendary scout Tom Konchalski and Division II coaching great Herb Magee.
Krzyzewski coached Army for five years before accepting the Duke job ahead of the 1981 season. After a few choppy early years, he became one of the most respected coaches in the game and a five-time national champion. He retired following the 2022 season with titles in ’91, ’92, ’01, ’10 and ’15.
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The Blue Devils icon coached or coached against two of his Hall of Fame classmates. Hansbrough, one of the most feared and well-known college players of the 2000s, led the Tar Heels to the ’09 national title and was the AP Player of the Year in ’08. Dawkins, Krzyzewski’s first All-American, garnered All-ACC honors every year from 1983 to ’86 for Duke.
Konchalski, an icon in his profession, will also enter the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. this year with the John Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award. Magee, already a Basketball Hall of Famer, won 1,144 games in 54 seasons at Philadelphia University (now known as Thomas Jefferson University).
