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Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski's final chapter will have a distinctly blue tint

PHILADELPHIA — It would have to be now. It would have to be this year.

Three weeks ago, the Coach K Farewell Tour seemed to overwhelm the Blue Devils. Now, they may be the team to beat.

SAN FRANCISCO — There was, nearing the end but not at the end of this final season, finally a net for Mike Krzyzewski to cut down. He ascended the ladder a little more cautiously than he did six years ago, one rung at a time, but he swung the detached…

A Final Four in his last season. Goosebumps all around.

SAN FRANCISCO — Mike Krzyzewski’s final tour added one final stop on the bayou.

SAN FRANCISCO — The hotel where Duke has stayed here for the NCAA Tournament is filled with marble and gold accents, a place of distinction. Its website tells tales of high society and perseverance, of rebuilding after the earthquake of 1906 and the Great Depression, when a prominent interior designer…

SAN FRANCISCO — The Army’s old Post Gymnasium at the Presidio is still there long after the Army is gone, concrete arches and cinderblock walls, the epitome of Vietnam-era military architecture. It’s a YMCA now, filled on a Friday afternoon with people of all ages and races and genders working…

SAN FRANCISCO — Forty-two years in, finally a first in Mike Krzyzewski’s year of lasts. Everything he had done, all of the trophies polished and banners hung and awards moldering away on shelves in his office, and there was still new territory to be explored. To be, finally, conquered.