Former Duke player describes Coach K's way of dumbing down March Madness bracket into micro tournaments

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Looking at 68 teams in a March Madness bracket can be pretty overwhelming, especially for those playing in the tournament.

However, former Duke player Jay Bilas said his legendary former head coach, Mike Krzyzewski, had a brilliant way of dumbing it down to take the pressure off the Blue Devils.

"I played for Coach K at Duke and in 1986, my senior year, that was the second year of the 64-team bracket," Bilas told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "And he broke the tournament down to basically a four-team tournament the first weekend. He talked about the opposite side of our bracket, the 32 teams opposite our side and said, ‘Look at all those teams in there,’ and started talking about how good some of them were. And then he goes, 'Who cares? Only one team is coming out of there. Only one team comes out of there. Whatever happens, fine. We'll play that one team on Monday night for the championship.'

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Head coach Mike Krzyzewski of the Duke Blue Devils reacts in the first half of the game against the North Carolina Tar Heels during the 2022 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Final Four semifinal at Caesars Superdome on April 2, 2022, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

"And so he gave us a bracket. It was a four-team bracket, and we were playing at Greensboro in the first and second rounds. I think he called it the Greensboro Invitational and said, ‘This is all we got to worry about.’ And we're like, ‘Geez, we can process that.’ He made it easier. And then the second week, same thing. We played at the Meadowlands - Meadowlands Invitational. We played DePaul, and