{"id":1416452,"date":"2022-04-03T00:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T04:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416452"},"modified":"2022-04-03T00:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T04:14:40","slug":"north-carolina-advances-to-national-championship-in-coach-ks-last-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-advances-to-national-championship-in-coach-ks-last-game\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Advances To National Championship In Coach K\u2019s Last Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-carolina-advances-to-national-championship-in-coach-ks-last-game%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416452&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1389232589.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>NEW ORLEANS \u2014 From the moment that Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski announced that the 2021-2022 college basketball season would be his last, we\u2019ve been waiting for the finale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The finale has arrived, as North Carolina defeated\u00a0<span>Duke 81-77 in a wild game at the Superdome in New Orleans Saturday night, sending the Tar Heels to the national championship game against Kansas on Monday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s something that I\u2019ve never thought about, and would never think about,\u201d North Carolina head coach Hubert Davis said when asked about handing Mike Krzyzewski his final loss. \u201cAll I\u2019m thinking about are these kids, these players. I told them how happy I am that I get a front-row seat for them to go through this season and these experiences. It\u2019s a blessing for me. It\u2019s a privilege. It\u2019s an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are the things I\u2019m thinking about,\u201d Davis continued. \u201cCoach K is unbelievable. And that team is the best team so far that we have played. And we just happened to make some more plays tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Duke\u2019s regular season final was against North Carolina in early March, a 94-81 loss to the Tar Heels at Cameron Indoor Stadium, ending Coach K\u2019s final game in Durham with a dud. There were many who didn\u2019t think this particular Duke team had what it took to get Coach K to his 13th Final Four, an opportunity for his sixth national championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But Krzyzewski had a message for the Cameron Crazies after that loss \u2014 the season isn\u2019t over yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cToday was unacceptable,\u201d Krzyzewski told the crowd after the loss. \u201cBut the season has been very acceptable. And I\u2019ll tell you, the season isn\u2019t over.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Coach K was correct. Duke defeated Cal State Fullerton, Michigan State, Texas Tech, and Arkansas to advance to the Final Four. But in a wild twist, it\u2019s the school just 10 miles down the road that ends Duke\u2019s season, and the most storied rival that ends Krzyzewski\u2019s incredible career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In one of the most high-level college basketball games you\u2019ll see, Duke and North Carolina went back and forth for 40 minutes, trading baskets at a frenzied pace. 18 lead changes and 12 ties had the Superdome rocking, as two of college basketball\u2019s most storied blue blood programs put on a show for the 70,000+ fans in attendance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Caleb Love and Armando Bacot led the way for the Tar Heels, with Bacot putting up 11 points and a ridiculous 21 rebounds before fouling out with 46.7 seconds left in the second half. But it was the sophomore guard who made the big buckets late, as Love poured in 28 points on 11-20 shooting from the floor, scoring 22 of his 28 points in the second half. His three with 25 seconds left in the game was the dagger, which Love followed by knocking down three of four free throw attempts.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CALEB LOVE OMG!!!! \ud83d\ude31<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNC_Basketball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UNC_Basketball<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MFinalFour?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MFinalFour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8xdvnYbzQU\">pic.twitter.com\/8xdvnYbzQU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarchMadnessMBB\/status\/1510452274316775424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cIt means everything to me,\u201d Love said when asked what the moment meant to him. \u201cI couldn\u2019t do it without my guys and my coaches. I give all the credit to them. They put me in the position and it was a team effort. Just one game away from a national championship. What else can you say?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>North Carolina and Duke will play Monday night at 9:20 p.m. ET with the national title on the line.<\/p>\n<p><i>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to sports@dailywire.com.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Enter for the chance to hang out with Gina Carano at the premiere of her new Daily Wire movie, Terror on the Prairie! Two lucky Daily Wire members will be given the complete red carpet treatment \u2013 free airfare, hotel, premiere car service, and exclusive merch. Daily Wire members can click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/redcarpet\">here<\/a>\u00a0to enter for a chance to win. If you\u2019re not a Daily Wire member yet, click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/subscribe\">here<\/a>\u00a0to join us so you can win this once-in-a-lifetime experience.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS \u2014 From the moment that Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski announced that the 2021-2022 college basketball season would be his last, we\u2019ve been waiting for the finale.The finale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}