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North Carolina's twitter account said goodbye to Mike Krzyzewski with a short and sweet message.

For Krzyzewski, despite this run being over, he is proud of how Duke fought to the end. Love finished with 28 points in the game to lead all scorers, including North Carolina’s final six points. After a week of hype, North Carolina vs.

Duke's loss Saturday night will likely be forward Paolo Banchero's final collegiate game, as he is expected to be a top pick in this year's NBA draft.

“I’m just proud to have played with this group,” he said. “Coach, recruiting me, he lived up to everything he told me,” Banchero said. After the game, the freshman explained how grateful he was to play for Mike Krzyzewski this year.

That victory to close the regular season helped North Carolina get on the right side of the NCAA Tournament bubble, and the Tar Heels have not relinquished the ...

North Carolina may not be the absolute No. 1 team in the country right now, but it's been playing as well as the best teams in the country since the calendar turned from February to March. The Tar Heels are a No. 8 seed in the tournament but the quality of play represents a team that does not check in as the No. 29 to No. 32 team in the field of 68. Beating two of the best defensive teams in the NCAA Tournament eliminates the idea that there's some secret to stopping Duke's success, which means the onus is on the coaches and players to be in position to make history. Likely to be a close one -- almost certainly will be a close one -- but Blue Devils by a field goal feels like the number. Duke's expectation is to compete at a high level and be in a position to win two games in the Final Four and do so, and there's plenty of evidence to suggest they've got what it takes. That victory to close the regular season helped North Carolina get on the right side of the NCAA Tournament bubble, and the Tar Heels have not relinquished the momentum. After the Tar Heels spoiled Coach K's final home game with a 94-81 victory on March 5, there will also be an element of revenge at stake.

North Carolina junior forward Armando Bacot, a first-team All-ACC selection who leads the team in scoring and rebounding, picked up his first foul with ...

It's going to be a good game, so you know, you gotta do what you gotta do. I guess that was kind of a stupid moment for me not knowing exactly who he was but now when I see him, I'll definitely show him some love and I mean I'm thankful of his support." I was like, 'Oh, OK. That's who that dude is,' and then a lot of my friends in Chapel Hill was telling me like how famous he was but I didn't know because I don't listen to country music. "I mean, I don't even know what to say," Keels said. Church, a Granite Falls, North Carolina native who attended Appalachian State University, was forced to make amends with his fans, but amends you'll make when you can't miss a matchup so rare. It flashed an assemblage of Duke's "D" logo, the national championship trophy and an argyle background.

Duke and North Carolina battling in the NCAA Tournament for the first time? In Mike Krzyzewski's final season? With a spot in the championship game on the ...

9:25 p.m. — And now Theo John has three fouls. Duke and North Carolina battling in the NCAA Tournament for the first time? Here's one of the makes, courtesy of Leaky Black: Duke and North Carolina have missed 11 of their first 14 field goal attempts. Villanova on Saturday. Mike Krzyzewski clearly wanted an offensive foul to be called on Armando Bacot, but John appeared to make contact with Bacot first. Duke has won six of its last seven games since that tough loss, including a 78-69 win over Arkansas in the Elite Eight. College basketball fans can watch Duke vs. UNC is hoping it can end the Coach K retirement tour after impressively navigating its way through the East Region of the NCAA Tournament bracket. He didn't put much weight on that foot initially, but he's moving a little bit better now. Theo John picks up his fourth foul. In Mike Krzyzewski's final season?

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski's remarkable career came to thrilling and sudden close Saturday night after Caleb Love made a key 3-pointer and three late free ...

{* traditionalSignIn_emailAddress *} {* traditionalSignIn_emailAddress *} {* traditionalSignIn_emailAddress *} {* traditionalSignIn_emailAddress *} {* traditionalSignIn_emailAddress *} You can change your selections at any time.Select as many teams as you like from the leagues below. Chances are Griffin and Banchero will be following Krzyzewski out the door. Love made three more free throws down the stretch, and then it was over. Instead of Krzyzewski going for his sixth title, on Monday, Carolina will try to win its seventh. They gave everything all the way through the nip-and-tuck stretch run that Duke played without a timeout. This one stopped the coach's last-gasp, storybook run one win away from a title game and a chance at his sixth championship. Saturday night's 81-77 setback in the national semifinals showdown marked Coach K's last loss, and one of his toughest losses, too.

Hubert Davis has a chance to become the first coach to win his first NCAA title in his rookie year. Kansas' Bill Self is going for his second title.

As in the loss to UNC at home earlier in March, the Blue Devils had opportunities to put the Tar Heels in a hole during the final minutes of the first half and the start of the second. Having failed to do so, the Blue Devils had to be perfect to combat the Tar Heels' outside shooting and physicality in chasing down second-chance points. The senior has rebounded from his quietest game of the year in the Jayhawks' win against Providence in the Sweet 16 with back-to-back impactful performances. The Jayhawks shot 53.7% from the field and 54.2% from 3-point range (13-of-24). With some top-ranked recruiting classes on the way, Davis has taken the mantle from his predecessor, Roy Williams, and put UNC back near the top of the sport. UNC also drew another outstanding game from forward Armando Bacot, who scored 11 points and pulled down 21 rebounds, 13 coming on the offensive glass.

Duke and North Carolina are about to meet for the first time ever in the men's NCAA tournament. It could be Mike Krzyzewski's final game, or it could be his ...

Villanova. However, TNT and TruTV will also carry the game. Duke and North Carolina are about to meet for the first time ever in the men’s NCAA tournament. The matchup will be broadcast primarily on TBS following the conclusion of Kansas vs.

Raptors assistant Adrian Griffin is typically bogged down with aiding coach Nick Nurse on how to get fifth-place Toronto a win on the court.

Determined to be there to potentially witness his son earn a spot in the national championship game on Monday night, Griffin did what any dedicated father would do. Regardless of the outcome, Griffin will be inside Caesars Superdome cheering his son on until the final whistle blows. But with the Raptors gearing up for pivotal matchup against the Heat on Sunday, Griffin’s attention will instead be on the biggest game of his son’s life.

Duke and North Carolina's match Saturday night is the two teams' third of the season. While Duke cruised in the first game, the Tar Heels spoiled Mike ...

Last time these two teams met, North Carolina had a strong second half to stun the world and upset Duke to finish the regular season. Duke and North Carolina’s match Saturday night is the two teams’ third of the season. We have focused on that and not rivalry payback.”

Duke faces rival North Carolina on Saturday night in one of the most anticipated Final Four matchups of all-time.

Krzyzewski enters his last meeting with the Tar Heels boasting an all-time 50–47 record. According to college basketball reporter Adam Zagoria, select Blue Devils fans attending Saturday night’s much-anticipated Final Four matchup between No. 2 Duke and No. 8 UNC will receive a “Duke blue” shirt adorned with the signature Nike swoosh and a stripped down version of the brand’s name, both in white. Ahead of what could be the final game of Mike Krzyzewski’s illustrious career, Nike has unveiled a special shirt honoring the legendary Duke coach.

No. 8 North Carolina defeated No. 2 Duke 81-77 in the nightcap of the men's Final Four. The Tar Heels advance to the national championship where they will ...

North Carolina is out to a 10-6 lead after seven minutes, despite shooting just 25 percent from the field (and 1 of 7 from 3). That’s because Duke is shooting 33.3 percent and committed the first five fouls of the game. It's 24-all with 5:17 to go in the first half and now two Blue Devils big men are in foul trouble. R.J. Davis leads the way for UNC with 10 points, shooting 2-for-3 from deep.Duke leads 22-18 with 7:51 left in the first half.OK, now we're having fun in NOLARJ Davis is a bucket: 10 points in 12 minutes on 4-of-5 shooting. Love has all six of his points in the final 4:29 of the half after missing his first five shots. Theo John has racked up FOUR first-half fouls.Duke clings to a slight 28-26 lead with 3:54 left in the first half.Theo John just picked up his fourth personal foul. He's up to 21 rebounds but missed two tries in the paint for the lead and the Tar Heels missed a third shot on that same possession. In the first half of his Final Four debut, Banchero has drilled a pair of 3-pointers and thrown down a Shaq-style slam. He has 10 points and six boards and it's 34-all with 26 seconds left in the half. He's up to 10 points and 18 rebounds in this game, good for his national-best 30th double-double of the season. He missed his first five shots of the game, didn't score a point for the first 15 minutes. He'll leave college basketball with 101 victories as a head coach in the NCAA Tournament.In his first season as North Carolina's head coach, Davis spoiled Mike Krzyzewski's final home game, then ended his career with an 81-77 thriller of a win over Duke tonight in the Final Four. In those two games against the Blue Devils, Love had 22 points, five rebounds and five assists at Cameron Indoor, then 28 points (all in the final 25 minutes) and drilled the dagger 3-pointer with 25 seconds to go in the national semifinals. How North Carolina beat Duke to advance to the national title gameNo. 8 North Carolina defeated No. 2 Duke 81-77 in the nightcap of the men's Final Four. The Tar Heels advance to the national championship where they will take on No. 1 Kansas. Caleb Love led the way for North Carolina with 28 points.

Between the Kansas Jayhawks, Villanova Wildcats, Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina Tar Heels, the schools have combined to win 17 NCAA championships and ...

The GOAT gets another game to coach ! ⁦@ESPNPR⁩ pic.twitter.com/QZs4eLyuZd— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) April 2, 2022 On the court, Duke should have the talent advantage. The Blue Devils have two of the top eight draft prospects in this year's class. The No. 2 seed Wildcats face the No. 1 seed Jayhawks to start the night. Then the Tobacco Road rivalry between Duke and UNC takes on new stakes. These schools, separated by about eight miles, meet for the first time in the Final Four. It will be UNC coach Hubert Davis' first Final Four as a coach and Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski's last.

Adrian Griffin, 47, is an assistant coach with the Raptors, but more importantly this weekend, he's the father of Duke freshman forward A.J. Griffin.

Instead, he rented a car and left the airport at 3 a.m. Saturday morning, setting his GPS to the Big Easy. He drove nine hours non-stop, arriving in New Orleans early Saturday afternoon. Griffin, also the father of Aubrey Griffin, a junior forward on the UConn women’s team, had planned to fly from Orlando to New Orleans on Friday night after a Raptors basketball game, but his flight was canceled last minute.

The ESPN analyst believes the clock will strike midnight on the Tar Heels on Saturday.

Vitale had called every Duke-UNC game on ESPN for 35 years until 2015. But, college basketball’s most iconic voice believes the clock will strike midnight for North Carolina on Saturday. Dick Vitale will not be in attendance at the Final Four on Saturday, but it did not stop the longtime ESPN analyst from predicting the score of the historic Duke-North Carolina game on Saturday night inside Caesars Superdome.

Duke's loss to arch-rival North Carolina produced a startling scene and the end of Mike Krzyzewski's remarkable career.

But, as Krzyzewski said postgame in a reference to a famous Teddy Roosevelt quote, simply being in the arena is all he could have asked for. He may not want to get caught up in the history, but everyone else will, and they’ll remember this night for as long as people are talking about college basketball. Davis went from some perceiving him as a failure 20 games into his tenure to beating perhaps the sport’s greatest coach ever twice in a month in the two most-anticipated games of the season. Regardless of what happens in Monday’s championship game, this game and this moment will be the one remembered from this tournament forever. He was uninterested in discussing his career or his legacy or even the emotions of it all coming to an end. He stood waiting for the Carolina players to shake hands, which they eventually did after sprinting to celebrate with family and friends.

Duke freshmen Trevor Keels and Paolo Banchero answered a question about what the Duke Brotherhood meant to them, which gave coach Mike Krzyzewski a moment ...

“In the arena, you’ll either feel great or feel agony,” he said, “but you’ll always feel great about being in the arena. I’m not going to be in the arena anymore, but dang, I was in the arena for a long time.” “We’re going to help them get past this and move on.” “We made our announcement that it’s our last year,” he said, “and I told (wife) Micki, ‘We’re going for it. We would have liked to be on the other side of it.” For the second time in just under an hour, he lost his epic battle.

UNC Tar Heels, Duke Blue Devils in historic Final Four game. Here are live updates from Duke University, Durham North Carolina, Cameron Indoor Stadium while ...

A cluster of fans lock arms whenever Duke gets the ball. An introduction of Duke star Paola Banchero on the broadcast drew similar cheers. Theo John dunks and the crowd at Devine’s adds new clangor to its cries: thunderous stomping, a chaotic clatter. Devine’s on Main Street is a sea of deep blue. For much of the game’s final minute, Bill Mo, a Duke Law student watching the game at Cameron, couldn’t decide what to do with his hands. “Boos” were audible from bars across Main Street when a Tar Heel hype reel played on CBS’ broadcast. At The Tavern on West Markham Avenue, a precarious crowd is gathered on the second story overhang. After a hype video played, a chant of “Let’s go Duke” broke out in the arena. “What is happening?” ”We want this game back for the one we lost at Cameron,” he said. “We’d take that one back over this one, I think. The scoreboard in Cameron Indoor Stadium showed the score between Duke and the “TARHOLES.”

In one of the most anticipated NCAA tournament games of all time, No. 8 seed North Carolina knocked off No. 2 seed Duke 81–77 to end the historic career of ...

With North Carolina leading 75–74 with less than a minute to play, Duke forward Mark Williams missed a pair of free throws that would have given the Blue Devils the lead. Love finished a paltry 3-for-10 from deep, but made the one that mattered to propel UNC to Monday night’s national championship game. It’s rare that a game with this much buildup lives up to the hype, but Carolina and Duke treated college basketball fans to an absolute thriller.

Saturday night's 81-77 setback in the national semifinal showdown between archrivals marked Coach K's last loss, and one of his toughest losses, too.

“I was in the arena for a long time, and these kids made my last time in the arena an amazing one.” It should be front and center with the spotlight on them.” Chances are Griffin and Banchero will be following Krzyzewski out the door. Love made three more free throws down the stretch, and then it was over. He finished with four buckets for eight points — all of them on dunks. Their first-ever meeting in the NCAA Tournament, this one, featured 18 lead changes and 12 ties. The eighth-seeded Tar Heels (29-9), of all teams, pinned the 368th and final loss on Krzyzewski. He finished with 1202 wins. Instead of Krzyzewski going for his sixth title, on Monday, Carolina will try to win its seventh. They gave everything all the way through the nip-and-tuck contest — neither team led by more than seven — that concluded with an edge-of-the-seat stretch run that Duke played without a timeout. At around the 2-minute mark, the teams traded three straight 3s. Saturday night’s 81-77 setback in the national semifinal showdown between archrivals marked Coach K’s last loss, and one of his toughest losses, too. They were partying early into Sunday morning on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. This latest win came exactly four weeks after the Tar Heels ruined the going-away party in Coach K’s final home game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The legendary brand was ridiculed by fans for their tweets to commemorate the iconic Duke coach.

As most users do on Twitter, they took the tweet quite literally. While Nike aimed to gather complimentary responses to Krzyzewski’s career, their series of tweets ended up having the opposite effect, especially when it came to this one. After North Carolina defeated Duke 81–77 to advance to Monday night’s national championship game against Kansas, Nike released a series of tweets to commemorate coach Mike Krzyzewski as his legendary career came to a close.

After the last game of his 47-year career, Mike Krzyzewski was more focused on his players than talking about his legacy or career, which came to an end in ...

It was a game that the winner was going to be joyous and the loser was going to be in agony. "It was a heck of a game so it met up to that [hype]. ... I'm proud of my guys. But, damn, I was in the arena for a long time. "That's something that I never thought about and will never think about," Hubert Davis said when asked about handing Krzyzewski the final loss of his career. Krzyzewski got his Division I job more than 10 years before the NCAA adopted a three-point line in 1986 and he thrived all the way through the one-and-done era. In June, Krzyzewski announced that the 2021-22 season would be his last and assistant Jon Scheyer would replace him.

Duke's Mike Krzyzewski didn't ride off into a perfect sunset, but that wasn't his concern after the loss. He was focused on comforting his young team.

"And when you're in the arena, you're either going to come out feeling great or you're going to feel agony, but you always will feel great about being in the arena. ... who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause." But damn, I was in the arena for a long time. And you're just proud that we were able to go out and fight, be in a fight with Coach every game." Freshman star Paolo Banchero added: "Just being able to go to war with Coach (Krzyzewski) and the team for the whole season – he was so committed to us all year. Wendell Moore Jr. said it was a "dream" to play for Krzyzewski – the winningest coach in college basketball history. "And you take care of the people who have been committed to you and have believed in you. "You take care of the people you love," Krzyzewski said. "I don't want any of these guys to leave and say, 'I should have made that one free throw; I should have made that one,' " he said. "He loves each and every one of us dearly," Moore said. And then going into the locker room, I've said my entire career that I wanted my seasons to end where my team was either crying tears of joy or tears of sorrow because then you knew that they gave everything. In another moment, Krzyzewski was consoling his team, hurting with them and doing his best to lift their spirits.

The Blue Devils couldn't get past rival UNC in their quest to send Mike Krzyzewski out with a national championship.

At 11:40 p.m., Krzyzewski and Mickie left on the 10th golf cart making trips from the locker room to the bus. The cart whisked the Krzyzewskis back to the locker room, where preparations were underway to head back to the team hotel. The postgame pace of movement in the Superdome hallways was a study in contrast. Always possessing a quick wit, K said to the assemblage of reporters and photographers, “Maybe you can superimpose a sunset.” And when you're in the arena, you're either going to come out feeling great or you're going to feel agony, but you always will feel great about being in the arena. After North Carolina’s press conference ended, Davis boarded a golf cart headed back to the locker room. But, damn, I was in the arena for a long time. The last walk was somber, her left hand in his right, as they followed the players to the locker room. Davis was wildly animated coaching his team, while Krzyzewski was more reserved while directing his team from a stool on the elevated court. Then Carolina gunner Caleb Love closed the thing down with a three at the 28-second mark, giving his team enough points to win. Guard Trevor Keels, who scored 19 points, walked just out of public viewing in the tunnel to the locker room and doubled over sobbing. Center Mark Williams, who had played just 16 minutes due to foul trouble and missed two huge free throws in the final minute, tugged his white jersey up over his eyes.

The Tar Heels will face Kansas on Monday night in the N.C.A.A. men's championship game.

“It just shows how much confidence and belief he had in us at the beginning of the year,” North Carolina guard R. J. Davis said. “He told us we’re going to be in this position, so we might as well just tell our parents to book their tickets now to New Orleans.” But somehow, Davis seemed to envision an endgame, one that included North Carolina playing for a national title, even if it meant going through its bitter rival Duke.