No. 4 Duke rolls by Pittsburgh in Coach K's final road game
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Mike Krzyzewski is attempting to stay in the present, even as the days slip by and the going-away presents and "last" milestones keep piling up. Even as retirement looms whenever Duke's season — and Krzyzewski's remarkable coaching career — ends at some point over the next five weeks.
So Krzyzewski didn't bother to tell his players he was walking onto the court as the visitor for the final time when the fourth-ranked Blue Devils faced Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. Doing so would make it about him. And that is the one thing Krzyzewski is trying to avoid above all else.
"I didn’t talk to them about ‘it’s my last road game, guys win it for me,'" Krzyzewski said. "I want it to be their moment."
A moment the Blue Devils increasingly look like they're capable of seizing.
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Freshman guard Trevor Keels scored a career-high 27 points, Paolo Banchero added 21 and Duke clinched at least a share of its 13th Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title under Krzyzewski with an 86-56 win over Pittsburgh.
The Blue Devils (26-4, 16-3) wasted little time making sure Krzyzewski would pick up his ACC-record 201st road win, taking a 13-point lead before the game was four minutes old and cruising.
"It started on defense for us," Keels said. "When we defend like that, start off the game defending, worrying about defense, we’re good shooters, the ball is going to go in."
It did repeatedly on a night Duke shot 59% (32 of 54) from the floor, including 50% (11 of 22) from 3-point range while turning it over just six times as Krzyzewski improved to 272-154 in road games with the Blue Devils.
Two of the losses have come