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Greg Cote: NCAA Final Four: Coach K on a ladder. Why is America rooting against the perfect ending?

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SportsCarolinaMonthly
April 1, 2022

Published by
Miami Herald

MIAMI — There is one and only one perfect ending that can come out of this men’s NCAA Final Four, and it is Coach K up on a ladder just before midnight Monday, snipping pieces of the basketball net in his final game as Duke coach. (A falling tear will be glistening on Mike Krzyzewski’s cheek, if you will allow the embellishment.) This will be the all-time great at his craft, a man literally standing tall and going out on top in the kind of farewell more suited to heart-tug drama than real life. It will be what we don’t get much, not in sports or in life: The perfect goodbye. Any other finish w…

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