Krzyzewski, Summitt named SI Sportsman, Sportswoman of year...

[madinmaryland]

Heads are exploding in the DU Sports forum now...

The career victory numbers -- 1,075 for her, 907 for him, totals that leave every other male and female coach in Division I basketball behind -- only hint at why Sports Illustrated has chosen Mike Krzyzewski and Pat Summitt as its 2011 Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year.

They'll be honored in Manhattan Tuesday night, at a red-carpet gala featuring such previous winners as Chris Evert, Sugar Ray Leonard and Wayne Gretzky, for a host of additional reasons as well.

Of course there's an element of the lifetime achievement award in SI's choice. How could there not be? Summitt has put her stamp on women's basketball for 38 seasons, from the days when the sport was sometimes referred to as "women's extramurals," and her Lady Vols were asked, during a 1979 game at LSU when their prelim to the men went into overtime, to move to an auxiliary gym so the guys could tip off on time.

Over that span she has won eight national titles along with all those games, while graduating every last young woman to play four years for her.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/magazine/12/04/sportsman.announcement/index.html#ixzz1fhxhnjfi

[taterguy]

1. Coach K should give his award to Chuck Howard

Well, if not for the fact that Howard's been dead 15 years.

[joeybee12]

2. I can see it being Summitt because let's face it, she has Alzheimer's...

Coach K for this past year? Not likely.

[elleng]

3. ?

She should get the award BECAUSE she has Alzheimer's? Or just talking about timing, assuming she should get it SOME TIME, and this is good time?

[joeybee12]

4. A good time...being a lifetime achievement award...nt