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BY AUSTIN FAX

ANCHOR LAUREN ZIMA

It may be early in the college basketball season, but Mike Kryzewski (Shuh Chef Ski) and the Duke Blue Devils are already making headlines. With a win over Michigan State on Tuesday, Coach K set the all-time record for most wins in Division 1 history.

ESPN had the reaction from some of Coach K’s former players after they heard the news.  

REDICK: “He is a great teacher and great motivator. It was a huge honor to play for him for four years. There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about some lesson I learned from Coach K. Sometimes basketball related. Sometimes life related. Besides my own father coach has.

DUHON: “He's prepared every day, every game we stepped on the court with him I felt confident and prepared we were going to.”

Kryzewski passed Bobby Knight with his 903rd win against Michigan State Tuesday night. Fox Sports’s Bill Reiter says Coach K’s accomplishments shouldn’t be taken lightly.

“[The game at] Madison Square Garden was the thing America loves to proclaim but rarely sees: An all-time moment, a glimpse of incredible and lasting greatness, an achievement that actually meets our desire to experience events … that we can rank among the most important of all time.”

CBS Sports’s Gary Parrish says there is only one word to describe how Coach K feels about the victory-- relief.

“Krzyzewski would much rather spend his time trying to figure out how to get Austin Rivers comfortable than talk about what this win means now and what it might mean later. That's just how he's wired. And that's why he didn't claim to be happy. Or joyful. Or even proud after notching No. 903.”

Yahoo!’s Pat Forde attributes Kryzewski’s success to his ability to adapt to his surroundings. That’s what separated the coach from the rest of the pack.

“You have to admire a guy who can win it all with LeBron [in the Olympics] and with Brian Zoubek. (Hey, who else has won it all with LeBron?). [H}e’s the best basketball coach ever when it comes to staying current. It’s been a long road from beating Lehigh in 1975 to now, but Coach K seems to have plenty of tread left on his tires. The record will not just be broken, but put out of reach.”

But a blogger for the New York Times thinks we need to keep the record in perspective-- especially considering the current landscape of college sports.

“This all comes so shortly after we were supposed to be celebrating a milestone Paterno victory too, back when he seemed above reproach. And it happens amid frantic N.C.A.A. reform efforts attempting to stave off the demise of the whole system.”