This town is big enough

Mike Krzyzewski won't be on the bench tonight when Duke University plays the University of North Carolina at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Neither will Roy Williams.

They plan to stay home and watch the game on television -- in Walkerton, Ind.

The town of 2,500, which touts itself as "uniquely located where four counties meet," also has its own Roy Williams and what must be one of America's surpassingly few Mike Krzyzewskis who is not also the head coach of the Duke men's basketball team. Williams and Not Coach K have never met.

The Walkerton Krzyzewski wrote to the Durham version about 20 years ago. He was shocked to get a letter back and has kept it like a treasure.

"He was surprised, thought it was a prank at first," said Krzyzewski, who often answers to "Mikey." "He said if I was in town to look him up. But I didn't pursue it. I wanted to keep a low profile."

The Hoosier Roy Williams, 75, a graduate of Indiana's Huntington University and retired factory employee, has never had contact with UNC's Williams. But he has heard plenty about the coach. "There's no relation," said Williams, who isn't a big basketball fan but will watch tonight.

Krzyzewski, 57, attended Ivy Tech School and worked 33 years for a water company before retiring. Before moving to Indiana, his parents lived several years in Chicago, the hometown of the Duke coach, but he doesn't know whether the families are related.

Still, Krzyzewski, who is balding, wears glasses and sports a beard, sometimes acts as if he's kin when he catches Duke's coach on TV.

"I see him all the time and yell: 'Hi cuz! Hi cuz!' '' Krzyzewski said. "I'm glad I watch the games by myself so people don't think I'm crazy."