There are two coach K's.

One who heads the Duke Blue Devils in the NCAA, and that is Mike Krzyzewski. The other is Steve Konchalski, who coaches the St. Francis Xavier X-Men of Antigonish, Nova Scotia in the CIS.

It is the Canadian coach that made news this weekend. And, what news.

Konchalski became the first CIS basketball coach ever to record 800 wins.

He did so by winning both games this weekend against the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds. The winning game was 87-68 at the Oland Centre in Antigonish.

800 wins. That's a lot of winning over a very long period of time. And it was done with the same team.

In those wins are three national championships in 1993, 2000 and 2001.

"We had some great teams in those years," Konchalski told TSN.ca, "but we had three or four teams over the years where we had good teams but didn't win it all. I remember a few times we went to the national semi-final only to lose by two points, one in regulation time and another in overtime."

Konchalski, a native New Yorker, who has been in Canada since 1961 when he was a student at Acadia University, started in Antigonish 37 years ago as a 30-year-old. Prior to being the head coach of the X-Men he worked as an assistant at Loyola College in Montreal.

Unlike many coaches who have won a lot of games but with more than one team he came to Antigonish in 1975 and has been there since.

"I remember the day I came. It was August 8, 1975 and I borrowed a car from a friend and came up from Acadia University. I really liked the beauty of the area and decided then that if they offered me the job that I would take it." Konchalski echoed those thoughts to TSN.ca. He got the job.

His first win came in a pre-season tourney against Mount Allison. "It was in a season-opening tournament. I lost my first game and got win number one in that second game. I don't remember the second win."

To read the full article by Alex Walling from TSN.ca

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