Coach Mike Krzyzewski will remind his players of those past performances to a point.
"I think the hero for us this game was Thornton, " coach Mike Krzyzewski said.
"Seth's performance in the first half, he just the best player on the court, " coach Mike Krzyzewski said.
"These two guys really came through for us, " Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said.
It left Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski joking to reporters that he was interested to read how they'd describe Kelly's big night.
Kidd also spoke with USA Basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski last year about getting involved on the coaching side of the organization.
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"One of the things during this time of the year ... is that if you lose, it's final, " coach Mike Krzyzewski said.
But I'm doing games featuring hall of fame coaches Roy Williams, Mike Krzyzewski.
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"We've got another five days to live here, " coach Mike Krzyzewski said.
Don't tell Mike Krzyzewski that Duke is college basketball's New York Yankees.
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski burned a timeout, and Louisville forward Chane Behanan held up four fingers to the partisans behind the Louisville bench.
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The good friends said goodbye and Boeheim, the second-winningest coach in Division I history behind only Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, walked to the locker room.
"We expected them to be terrific, and we have to match terrific, and then you have a terrific game, " Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said.
"This is a difficult tournament, " said Boeheim, fourth all-time with 50 tournament wins, behind only Mike Krzyzewski (81), Dean Smith (65) and Roy Williams (60).
But the team's managing director Jerry Colangelo and head coach Mike Krzyzewski are confident the current squad will perform better than the team that went to Athens.
There was, of course, Coach Calhoun, who now joins John Wooden, Adolph Rupp, and Mike Krzyzewski and Bobby Knight as the only coaches ever to win three national championships.
"I thought we had a chance there, and then boom, " said Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, who watched Louisville pull away for an 85-63 victory in the Midwest Regional final.
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Consider the inspiring relationship between two basketball legends: Bobby Knight was only 25 when he recruited a young Mike Krzyzewski to play college basketball for him in the Spring of 1965.
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But fueled by emotion after teammate Kevin Ware gruesomely broke his leg, the Cardinals (33-5) beat Duke by 22 points, the second-most lopsided loss of the season for coach Mike Krzyzewski's team.
And now there he is on the big stage in Atlanta, against a 68-year-old icon he's never beaten in nine tries and who has won more games (920) than any coach in Division I history except Mike Krzyzewski.
This was the first time Pitino and Mike Krzyzewski had met in the regional finals since that 1992 classic that ended with Christian Laettner's improbable buzzer-beater, a game now considered one of the best in NCAA tournament history.
True to perception, 13% of these comments were positively gushy about Duke's players, its coach Mike Krzyzewski, its quirky arena (Cameron Indoor Stadium), its rabid fans (the Cameron Crazies) and the SAT scores these fans may have attained.
While operating at the very top echelon of the automotive-marketing world, in other words, he became known more as a Bobby Knight, the volcanic Indiana University basketball coach of yore, than a Mike Krzyzewski of Duke University buckets fame.
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It's been just over a half century since Boeheim enrolled at Syracuse as a freshman, and the team's media guide devotes 12 pages to his legacy, which includes 920 victories, second all-time to Duke's Mike Krzyzewski among Division I men's coaches.
You'll spend several days prior to opening with all of the above, both individually and in groups, doing 'walk-throughs', like Mike Krzyzewski does on the court with the Blue Devils before boarding the bus for a big game, planning the plays that they will use against the team that they'll be playing that night.
Duke's success (three national titles during the past 17 years) has enabled head coach Mike Krzyzewski to become a brand unto himself, appearing in commercials for American Express (nyse: AXP - news - people ) and Chevrolet, a division of General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ).
Paulus, national player of the year in high school as a quarterback for Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse and also a star on the basketball team, opted to play point guard at Duke for coach Mike Krzyzewski and after receiving his undergraduate degree enrolled at Syracuse as a graduate student for his final year of eligibility.
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