Today's blog was written by Tony Kim, an intern with Play Like a Champion Today and a senior psychology major at Purdue North Central.
After 14th seed Mercer upset powerhouse Duke in the first round of the NCAA Championship and ruined many billion-dollar brackets, the living legend of a Coach Mike Krzyzewski personally went to the Mercer locker room to congratulate the winning team. Even though he was distraught from his young team losing to the Mercer Bears, Coach Krzyzewski knew that after such a comeback in the dying minutes of the second half—the Mercer team deserved to be commended on their performance.
From
the start, it is safe to say that no one would have predicted that Krzyzewski’s team would have
been knocked out in the first round by a seemingly unknown team such as the
Mercer Bears. Not only did he display an act of sportsmanship that exceeded
most expectations of coaches or players on-court, but he displayed humility in
the face of defeat—showing great
sportsmanship in the game of basketball and his love of the game above all
else.
