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Predicting success is hard

By Dan Oswald Mar 20, 2017 Oswald Letter

Updated: Jan 7, 2018

by Dan Oswald How good are you at picking winners? If you’re one of the 70 million Americans who filled out a bracket for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, you probably have a sense of how hard it is to predict success. You think you’ve done your homework. You do your research, looking at win-loss […]

A Playbook for Success from Coach Mike Krzyzewski

By Dan Oswald Mar 28, 2011 Oswald Letter

Updated: Mar 28, 2011

Last Thursday night, the Duke men’s basketball team lost its game in the NCAA tournament to the Arizona Wildcats, ending the Blue Devils’ season. Had Duke been able to win the game, its coach, Mike Krzyzewski, would have equaled Bobby Knight’s record for the most victories in college basketball history. Instead, Krzyzewski went home one […]