Coach K fumed and snorted throughout the 11th-ranked Blue Devils 101-60 victory over the lowly Aggies (1-6) , calling one timeout in the middle of a 17-0 Duke run late in the first half, during which he animatedly lit into his wide-eyed team. If he’d been wearing an ugly sweater and thrown a few chairs it could have been Bobby Knight.

“I told them to run a play and they didn’t run it,” Krzyzewski explained. “When that happens someone is going to sit. Who’s the boss? I am. When they coach a team, they can run the play they want to.”

Krzyzewski was still seething later on — keeping the Devils pinned in their locker room for more than 20 minutes after the contest.

“It was hell in there,” said senior Chris Carrawell, with 15 points and six assists. “I don’t know that I’ve ever seen Coach that angry. We deserved it though.”

Despite the lopsided win that featured 20 second-half points by freshman guard Jason Williams and career best performances by fellow yearlings, Mike Dunleavy (19 points) and Casey Sanders (12), Krzyzewski’s mad-about list was longer than most letters to Santa Claus.

“We had no passion today,” said Krzyzewski. “We should have been dominating inside against A&T. But we didn’t finish a thing. We shot less than 50 percent (actually 45.7) when we had an opportunity to do a whole lot better.”

Krzyzewski didn’t think much of Duke’s defense, either, especially during a stretch when the Aggies shockingly cut the Devils’ lead to 28-24 after 14 minutes.

“They were hungrier than we were and got the ball to the ball to the basket easily against us,” he said. “We were fortunate that a lot of those times Shane (Battier) saved us.”

Battier finished with six steals and two blocks.

It was a strange first half for Duke (7-2) even though it finished strong to lead 45-28 at the break. Battier didn’t score at all in the first 20 minutes (taking only one shot), while Williams, who missed six minutes after a Jimmy Spencer-like collision with an Aggie, scored just two.

Duke apparently got scolded by Krzyzewski again at halftime, because it came out of the locker room with more purpose. Williams ran wild with a barrage of 3-pointers as Duke reeled off 15 straight points for a 66-35 lead with 15 minutes still to play.

“I didn’t compete in the first half and competition is the reason I came here,” said Williams, who had amazing back-to-back lobs for dunks by Sanders at one point. “I did better in the second half.”

Duke wasn’t in a good mood — or a merciful one. Williams didn’t exit for good until the 3:01 mark with his team ahead by 40.

The victim of the onslaught was the Aggies’ first-year coach Curtis Hunter, who played for North Carolina in the mid-80s. Hunter took the beating in stride, saying it will help his young team (which beat Texas A&M) down the road.

“We played as hard as we could,” he said. “You know all about them. They’re young, but they’re still mighty good.”

Not all that good Sunday, though.

“If we’d been playing anyone in the ACC we’d have lost,” said a somber Carrawell.

Which is why Krzyzewski went a little nuts. He saw his team getting a little too independent, a little too full of itself after big wins over Illinois, DePaul and Michigan. And he made a point.

“We acted like we could all do it on our own,” he said. “I didn’t see that need for each other — that helping one another that has been there. That’s a dangerous habit to fall into. We’re not that good.”