Trip to China about improvement for Duke

Duke's basketball team starts a X-day, four-game trip to China on Aug. 17, and Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski told the Duke Chronicle the trip will make his team better.

“I think [the Friendship Games will] make us a better basketball team,”Krzyzewski told the Chronicle. “If we’re a better basketball team, that helps everybody at our school and makes everybody a little bit more happy.”

The Blue Devils leave for China on Sunday.