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It's not often you get four coaches with 32 Final Fours and 10 national titles to their names rolled into just two games on one night. But that's the table that has been set before us. Mike Krzyzewski's taking his Duke team to upstate New York to play Jim Boeheim's Syracuse Orange (7 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App). Then in the nightcap, Roy Williams' Tar Heels will host Rick Pitino and Louisville (9 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App). That's four hours or so of major coaching credibility and, more importantly, the games have major implications for the ACC regular-season race and for NCAA tournament seeding. It promises to be a momentous evening. To mark the occasion, we're taking a look at what each coach's team is doing right now, in 2016-17. All four of these elder statesmen are so familiar to us that we think we know what their teams are good at and what they'll do in any given game. Is that a valid assumption? What will we actually see from these four teams? Are these coaches sticking with what has worked before, learning new tricks or a bit of both? Here's what we know about these coaches and their teams heading into one big night of hoops:
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