Bob Knight#Dismissal from Indiana

Knight was born on October 25, 1940, in the town of Massillon, Ohio, and grew up in Orrville, Ohio.{{cite web |url=http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/people/k/knight_bob/knight.html |title=Bob Knight |work=Indianapolis Star |date=February 4, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419194719/http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/people/k/knight_bob/knight.html |archive-date=April 19, 2010|access-date=October 11, 2010}} His father Pat worked for the railroad and his mother Hazel was a school teacher.{{Cite web |title=ESPN Classic – Knight known for titles, temper |url=https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Knight_Bob.html |access-date=November 2, 2023 |publisher=ESPN |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102041010/http://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Knight_Bob.html |url-status=live }} He began playing organized basketball at Orrville High School.{{Cite news |last=Weber |first=Bruce |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Bobby Knight, Basketball Coach Known for Trophies and Tantrums, Dies at 83 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/sports/ncaabasketball/bobby-knight-dead.html |access-date=November 2, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101233749/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/sports/ncaabasketball/bobby-knight-dead.html |url-status=live }}

Knight continued at Ohio State in 1958 when he played for Basketball Hall of Fame coach Fred Taylor.{{Cite web |last=Helwagen |first=Steve |date=March 19, 2020 |title=Flashback: Ohio State's lone national title came 60 years ago |url=https://247sports.com/college/ohio-state/Article/Ohio-State-Buckeyes-mens-basketball-captured-its-lone-national-championship-60-years-ago-145190302/ |access-date=November 1, 2023 |website=247Sports |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Coach Bob Knight passes away at 83 {{!}} NCAA.com |url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2023-11-01/coach-bob-knight-passes-away-83 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=ncaa.com |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102000205/https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2023-11-01/coach-bob-knight-passes-away-83 |url-status=live }} Despite being a star player in high school, he played a reserve role as a forward on the 1960 Ohio State Buckeyes team that won the NCAA championship and featured future Hall of Fame players John Havlicek and Jerry Lucas.{{Cite web |last=Medcalf |first=Myron |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Important moments in Bob Knight's career |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/37894332/important-moments-bob-knight-career |access-date=November 2, 2023 |publisher=ESPN |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102000200/https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/37894332/important-moments-bob-knight-career |url-status=live }} Knight was also a member of the 1961 and 1962 Buckeyes teams that lost in the finals to the Cincinnati Bearcats.{{Cite news |last=May |first=Peter |date=March 21, 2012 |title=Ohio Universities Resume a Rivalry, 50 Years Later |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/sports/ncaabasketball/remembering-the-title-games-between-cincinnati-and-ohio-state.html |access-date=November 2, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617052917/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/sports/ncaabasketball/remembering-the-title-games-between-cincinnati-and-ohio-state.html |url-status=live }}

Due in part to the star power of those Ohio State teams, Knight usually received scant playing time, but that did not prevent him from making an impact. In the 1961 NCAA championship game, Knight came off the bench with 1:41 on the clock and Cincinnati leading Ohio State, 61–59.{{Cite web |last=Arace |first=Michael |date=November 2, 2023 |title=Arace: Bobby Knight made himself in Indiana, but he was made in Ohio. He never forgot it |url=https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/columns/2023/11/02/a-look-at-bobby-knights-championship-years-at-ohio-state-university/71418054007/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=The Columbus Dispatch |language=en-US |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102224422/https://subscribe.dispatch.com/restricted?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dispatch.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fcolumns%2F2023%2F11%2F02%2Fa-look-at-bobby-knights-championship-years-at-ohio-state-university%2F71418054007%2F&sltsgmt=TBP_initially_free_24_then_premium_control_A&gps-source=CPROADBLOCKDH |url-status=live }} In the words of then–Ohio State assistant coach Frank Truitt:

Knight got the ball in the left front court and faked a drive into the middle. Then [he] crossed over like he worked on it all his life and drove right in and laid it up. That tied the game for us, and Knight ran clear across the floor like a 100-yard dash sprinter and ran right at me and said, "See there, coach, I should have been in that game a long time ago!"{{Cite web |last=Kupper |first=Mike |date=2023-11-01 |title=Bobby Knight dies, one of basketball's greatest — and most volatile — coaches |url=https://www.eagletribune.com/bobby-knight-dies-one-of-basketball-s-greatest-and-most-volatile-coaches/article_2eb4cc41-7c5f-5b00-a458-2156669e6331.html |access-date=2023-11-02 |work=Los Angeles Times |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102224420/https://www.eagletribune.com/bobby-knight-dies-one-of-basketball-s-greatest-and-most-volatile-coaches/article_2eb4cc41-7c5f-5b00-a458-2156669e6331.html |url-status=live }}

To which Truitt replied, "Sit down, you hot dog. You're lucky you're even on the floor."Delsohn, Steve and Mark Heisler (2006). Bob Knight: The Unauthorized Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 22. {{ISBN|074324348X}}.

In addition to lettering in basketball at Ohio State, it has been claimed that Knight also lettered in football and baseball;{{cite web |url=http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/bob-knight-at.htm |title=Howstuffworks 'Bob Knight' |publisher=Entertainment.howstuffworks.com |access-date=October 11, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206142202/http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/bob-knight-at.htm |archive-date=December 6, 2010 |url-status=dead }} however, the official list of Ohio State football letter earners does not include Knight.{{cite web |url=http://admin.xosn.com/fls/17300//pdf/fb/m-footbl-letterwinners.pdf?SPSID=87751&SPID=10408&DB_OEM_ID=17300 |title=Tradition and History: Ohio State Letterwinners |work=Ohio State 2007 Spring Football Media Guide |publisher=Ohio State University Athletics |format=PDF |page=148 |access-date=October 31, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923131005/http://admin.xosn.com/fls/17300//pdf/fb/m-footbl-letterwinners.pdf?SPSID=87751&SPID=10408&DB_OEM_ID=17300 |archive-date=September 23, 2012 |url-status=dead }} Knight graduated with a degree in history and government in 1962.{{Cite web |last=Puma |first=Mike |title=Knight known for titles, temper |url=http://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Knight_Bob.html |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=ESPN Classic |archive-date=August 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810223404/https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Knight_Bob.html |url-status=live }}

After graduating from Ohio State University in 1962, he coached junior varsity basketball at Cuyahoga Falls High School in Ohio for one year.{{cite magazine|magazine=Sports Illustrated|last=Deford|first=Frank|title=The Rabbit Hunter|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/12/28/knight.flashback/|date=January 26, 1981|access-date=May 30, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211061150/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/12/28/knight.flashback/|archive-date=February 11, 2009|url-status=dead}} Knight then enlisted in the U.S. Army and served on active duty from June 1963 to June 1965 and in the U.S. Army Reserves from June 1965 to May 1969.[https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/athletes-military-records-22111/#file-65419 "NA FORM 13164 for Robert Montgomery Knight Military Records"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003061130/https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/athletes-military-records-22111/#file-65419 |date=October 3, 2022 }}, National Archives and Records Administration He conducted initial training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and was transferred to West Point, New York, in September 1963. He became a private first class.

While in the army, he accepted an assistant coaching position with the Army Black Knights in 1963, where, two years later, he was named head coach at the relatively young age of 24.{{cite news|title=Good Knight! He'll coach Army|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-akron-beacon-journal/122961676/|newspaper=The Akron Beacon Journal|date=May 18, 1965|page=57|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=April 16, 2023|archive-date=April 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416144223/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-akron-beacon-journal/122961676/|url-status=live}} {{Open access}} In six seasons as a head coach at West Point, Knight won 102 games, with his first coming against Worcester Polytechnic Institute.{{Cite web |last=Norlander |first=Matt |date=December 9, 2015 |title=LOOK: Army coach honors 50th anniversary of Bob Knight's first win |url=https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/look-army-coach-honors-50th-anniversary-of-bob-knights-first-win/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=CBS Sports |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102004711/https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/look-army-coach-honors-50th-anniversary-of-bob-knights-first-win/ |url-status=live }} He led Army to four NITs, advancing to the semifinals three times. One of his players was Mike Krzyzewski, who later served as his assistant before becoming a Hall of Fame head coach at Duke.{{Cite magazine |last=Lyons |first=Dan |date=February 15, 2022 |title=The Incident That Reportedly Led to Coach K to Being 'Done With' Bobby Knight |url=https://www.si.com/college/2022/02/16/coach-k-bob-knight-relationship-ended-2015-incident-ian-oconnor-mike-krzyzewski-book |access-date=November 2, 2023 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |language=en-us |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102004701/https://www.si.com/college/2022/02/16/coach-k-bob-knight-relationship-ended-2015-incident-ian-oconnor-mike-krzyzewski-book |url-status=live }} Mike Silliman was another of Knight's players at Army, and Knight was quoted as saying that Silliman was the best player that he had coached.{{Cite web |last=McMillan |first=Ken |date=January 27, 2015 |title=Army great Silliman to be honored |url=https://www.recordonline.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2015/01/27/army-great-silliman-to-be/35428880007/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=Times Herald-Record |language=en-US |archive-date=December 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220130535/https://www.recordonline.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2015/01/27/army-great-silliman-to-be/35428880007/ |url-status=live }}

File:Coach-k-knight.jpg and Knight during his tenure at Army]]

During his tenure at Army, Knight gained a reputation for having an explosive temper.{{Cite web |last1=Corley |first1=Cheryl |last2=Beane |first2=Patrick |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Hall of Fame basketball coach Bobby Knight has died at 83 |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1184960767/bobby-knight-indiana-basketball-coach-hoosiers-dies |access-date=November 1, 2023 |publisher=NPR |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102000705/https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1184960767/bobby-knight-indiana-basketball-coach-hoosiers-dies |url-status=live }} After Army's 66–60 loss to BYU and Hall of Fame coach Stan Watts in the semifinals of the 1966 NIT, Knight completely lost control, kicking lockers and verbally blasting the officials.{{Cite web |last=Call |first=Jeff |date=March 25, 2016 |title=Nemelka recalls BYU's NIT championship 50 years ago in New York City |url=https://www.deseret.com/2016/3/25/20585423/nemelka-recalls-byu-s-nit-championship-50-years-ago-in-new-york-city |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=Deseret News |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102003047/https://www.deseret.com/2016/3/25/20585423/nemelka-recalls-byu-s-nit-championship-50-years-ago-in-new-york-city |url-status=live }} Embarrassed, he later went to Watts' hotel room and apologized. Watts forgave him, and is quoted as saying, "I want you to know that you're going to be one of the bright young coaches in the country, and it's just a matter of time before you win a national championship."Rock, Brad, and Lee Warnick. Greatest Moments in BYU Sports. Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, 1984. Print.

Knight was one of seven candidates vying to fill the Wisconsin men's basketball head coaching vacancy after John Erickson resigned to become the Milwaukee Bucks' first-ever general manager on April 3, 1968.{{Cite web |last=Krause |first=Dennis |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Dennis Krause Blog: Bobby Knight almost coached at Wisconsin |url=https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2023/11/02/basketball-coach-bob-knight-dies-indiana-wisconsin- |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=Spectrum News |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102004642/https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2023/11/02/basketball-coach-bob-knight-dies-indiana-wisconsin- |url-status=live }} Knight was offered the position but requested more time to think it over. By the time he had returned to West Point, news that he was to become the Badgers' new coach was prematurely leaked to the local media. After consulting with Bo Schembechler, who had also had a negative experience as a Wisconsin football coaching candidate the previous year, Knight withdrew his candidacy and continued to coach at Army for three more seasons. Erickson's assistant coach John Powless was promoted instead.[https://journaltimes.com/good-knight-badgers-finally-over-bobby-s-rejection/article_766498a9-8bc9-55b2-9c9b-9a0ceae317e8.html Temkin, Barry. "Good Knight: Badgers finally over Bobby's rejection," Chicago Tribune, Thursday, March 23, 2000.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326103121/https://journaltimes.com/good-knight-badgers-finally-over-bobby-s-rejection/article_766498a9-8bc9-55b2-9c9b-9a0ceae317e8.html |date=March 26, 2020 }} Retrieved March 26, 2020{{Cite web|date=2016-09-27|title=Excerpt: How Bo Schembechler and Bob Knight could've been Badgers|url=https://www.espn.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/136952/excerpt-how-bo-schembechler-and-bob-knight-couldve-been-badgers|access-date=2024-01-04|publisher=ESPN|language=en}}

In 1971, Indiana University Bloomington hired Knight as head coach.{{Cite web |last1=Press |first1=Matt |last2=Foley |first2=Will |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Bob Knight, Indiana basketball coaching legend and controversial figure, dies at 83 |url=https://www.idsnews.com/article/2023/11/bob-knight-indiana-university-basketball-coach-dead-bloomington-iu |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=Indiana Daily Student |language=en-US |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102224422/https://www.idsnews.com/article/2023/11/bob-knight-indiana-university-basketball-coach-dead-bloomington-iu |url-status=live }} During his 29 years at the school, the Hoosiers won 662 games, including 22 seasons of 20 or more wins, while losing 239, a .735 winning percentage.{{cite web|title=Bob Knight|url=http://www.texastech.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/knight_bob00.html|publisher=Texas Tech Athletics|access-date=April 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915162633/http://texastech.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/knight_bob00.html|archive-date=September 15, 2008|year=2007|url-status=dead}} In 24 NCAA tournament appearances at Indiana, Hoosier teams under Knight won 42 of 63 games (.667), winning titles in 1976, 1981, and 1987, while losing in the semifinals in 1973 and 1992.{{cite web|title=Bob Knight|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~athlweb/graphic/sports/m-bkball/mbkcbio.html|publisher=Indiana University Bloomington Athletics|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000611213328/http://www.indiana.edu/~athlweb/graphic/sports/m-bkball/mbkcbio.html |archive-date=June 11, 2000}}

File:President Gerald Ford Meets with 1976 NCAA Champion Indiana University Basketball Team.jpg at the White House]]

In 1972–73, Knight's second year as coach, Indiana won the Big Ten championship and reached the Final Four, losing to UCLA, which was on its way to its seventh consecutive national title.{{Cite magazine |last=Brew |first=Tom |date=March 24, 2020 |title=ON THIS DAY: In 1973, a Very Young Bob Knight Almost Took Down the UCLA Dynasty |url=https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/on-this-day-indiana-ucla-1973 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |language=en |archive-date=March 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328035251/https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/on-this-day-indiana-ucla-1973 |url-status=live }} The following season, in 1973–74, Indiana once again captured a Big Ten title.{{Cite web |last1=Glenesk |first1=Matthew |last2=Osterman |first2=Zach |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Ranking Bob Knight's top 5 IU basketball teams: Undefeated champs to what-could-have-been |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2023/11/01/ranking-bobby-knight-best-indiana-hoosiers-basketball-teams-iu-1976-1975-1981-1993-1987/70367290007/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=The Indianapolis Star |language=en-US |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102011218/https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2023/11/01/ranking-bobby-knight-best-indiana-hoosiers-basketball-teams-iu-1976-1975-1981-1993-1987/70367290007/ |url-status=live }}

In the two following seasons, 1974–75 and 1975–76, the Hoosiers were undefeated in the regular season and won 37 consecutive Big Ten games, including two more Big Ten championships.{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Eric |date=October 29, 2012 |title=Indiana Basketball: Top 5 Teams in Hoosiers History |url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1386377-indiana-basketball-top-5-teams-in-hoosiers-history |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=Bleacher Report |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102011214/https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1386377-indiana-basketball-top-5-teams-in-hoosiers-history |url-status=live }} In 1974–75, the Hoosiers swept the entire Big Ten by an average of 22.8 points per game. However, in an 83–82 win against Purdue they lost consensus All-American forward Scott May to a broken left arm.{{Cite web |last=Sports |first=IndyStar |date=July 18, 2013 |title=Indiana Basketball: And the No. 1 player all-time in Indiana University basketball history is ... |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/hoosier-insider/1/01/01/indiana-basketball-and-the-no-1-player-all-time-in-indiana-university-basketball-history-is/2557209/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=The Indianapolis Star |language=en-US |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102023549/https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/hoosier-insider/1/01/01/indiana-basketball-and-the-no-1-player-all-time-in-indiana-university-basketball-history-is/2557209/ |url-status=live }} With May's injury limiting him to seven minutes of play, the No. 1 Hoosiers lost to Kentucky 92–90 in the Mideast Regional.{{Cite magazine |last=Brew |first=Tom |date=March 23, 2020 |title=ON THIS DAY: In 1975, Kentucky Steals Indiana's Shot at History |url=https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/on-this-day-indiana-loses-kentucky-1975 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102023548/https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/on-this-day-indiana-loses-kentucky-1975 |url-status=live }} Despite the loss, the Hoosiers were so dominant that four starters—Scott May, Steve Green, Kent Benson, and Quinn Buckner—would make the five-man All-Big Ten team.

The following season, in 1975–76, the Hoosiers went the entire season and 1976 NCAA tournament without a single loss, defeating Michigan 86–68 in the title game.{{Cite web |last=Osterman |first=Zach |date=January 2, 2016 |title=1976 Indiana Hoosiers' undefeated season: An oral history |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2016/01/02/1976-indiana-hoosiers-undefeated-season-oral-history/78181576/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=The Indianapolis Star |language=en-US |archive-date=November 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101224427/https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2016/01/02/1976-indiana-hoosiers-undefeated-season-oral-history/78181576/ |url-status=live }} Immediately after the game, Knight lamented that "it should have been two." The 1976 Hoosiers remain the last undefeated NCAA Division I men's basketball team.{{cite news|first=Dave |last=Dorr |url=http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/sports2000/trends/150673.html |title=A perfect season |work=Sporting News |date=April 10, 1976 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000229072546/http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/sports2000/trends/150673.html |archive-date=February 29, 2000|access-date=March 28, 2008}}{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/sports/hh/1976/ |title=Hoosier Historia |publisher=heraldtimesonline.com |access-date=March 28, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070606115814/http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/sports/hh/1976/ |archive-date=June 6, 2007 |url-status=live }} Through these two seasons, Knight's teams were undefeated in the regular season, including a perfect 37–0 record in Big Ten games on their way to their third and fourth conference titles in a row. Behind the play of Mike Woodson, Indiana won the 1979 NIT championship.{{Cite web |last=Dopirak |first=Dustin |date=January 19, 2022 |title=Mike Woodson on IU-Purdue rivalry: 'It's just always been a battle over the years.' |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2022/01/19/mike-woodson-rejoins-iu-purdue-basketball-rivalry-sideline-indiana/6578214001/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=The Indianapolis Star |language=en-US |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102021903/https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2022/01/19/mike-woodson-rejoins-iu-purdue-basketball-rivalry-sideline-indiana/6578214001/ |url-status=live }}

Throughout the 1970s, however, Knight was beginning to be involved in several controversies.{{Cite web |date=February 4, 2008 |title=The Knightmare is Over |url=https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2008/02/05/the-knightmare-is-over/23628132007/ |access-date=November 4, 2023 |website=The Columbus Dispatch |language=en-US}} 1960 Olympic gold medalist Douglas Blubaugh was head wrestling coach at IU from 1973 to 1984. Early in his tenure while he jogged in the practice facility during basketball practice, Knight yelled at him to leave, using more than one expletive. Blubaugh pinned Knight to a wall, and told him never to repeat the performance, and Knight never did.{{Cite web |title="Doug Blubaugh was tougher than he was good," NewsOK, Barry Tramel, 10 August 2017 |url=http://newsok.com/article/5559704 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171120071923/http://newsok.com/article/5559704 |archive-date=November 20, 2017 |access-date=November 13, 2017}}

On December 7, 1974, Indiana defeated Kentucky 98–74. Near the end of the game, Knight went to the Kentucky bench where the official was standing to complain about a call. Before he left, Knight hit Kentucky coach Joe B. Hall in the back of the head.{{cite web |title=Recapping the rivalry |url=https://247sports.com/college/kentucky/article/recapping-the-top-5-games-in-the-kentucky-indiana-hoops-rivalry-52292/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110101123/http://kentucky.247sports.com/Article/Recapping-the-top-5-games-in-the-Kentucky-Indiana-hoops-rivalry-52292 |archive-date=January 10, 2012 |access-date=March 22, 2012}} Kentucky assistant coach Lynn Nance, a former FBI agent, had to be restrained by Hall from hitting Knight. Hall later said, "It publicly humiliated me."Atlanta Constitution Journal, February 28, 1982.{{verify source|date=April 2017}} Knight blamed the furor on Hall, stating, "If it was meant to be malicious, I'd have blasted the fucker into the seats."{{cite book |last=Delsohn |first=Steve |url=https://archive.org/details/bobknightunautho00dels |title=Bob Knight: The Unauthorized Biography |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2006 |isbn=9780743243483 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bobknightunautho00dels/page/96 96] |url-access=registration}}

Years after the incident, it was reported that Knight choked and punched Indiana University's longtime sports information director, Kit Klingelhoffer, over a news release that upset the coach. In 1976, Knight grabbed IU basketball player Jim Wisman and jerked him into his seat.

File:Isiah Thomas and Bobby Knight, The Cincinnati Enquirer 1981-03-15 page C-4.jpg in 1981]]

The 1979–80 Hoosiers, led by Mike Woodson and Isiah Thomas, won the Big Ten championship and advanced to the 1980 Sweet Sixteen.{{Cite magazine |last=Jordan |first=Haley |date=July 29, 2022 |title=Hoosier Favorite No. 30? Picking Favorite Indiana Basketball Players, One Number At a Time |url=https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/indiana-basketball-hoosiers-by-the-numbers-favorite-player-to-wear-number-30 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102132149/https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/indiana-basketball-hoosiers-by-the-numbers-favorite-player-to-wear-number-30 |url-status=live }} The following season, in 1980–81, Thomas and the Hoosiers once again won a conference title and won the 1981 NCAA tournament, Knight's second national title.{{Cite magazine |last=Jordan |first=Haley |date=March 30, 2023 |title=This Day in History: Isiah Thomas Leads Indiana Basketball to 1981 NCAA Title |url=https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/this-day-in-history-bobby-knight-leads-indiana-basketball-1981-ncaa-title |access-date=November 2, 2023 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |language=en |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406152634/https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/this-day-in-history-bobby-knight-leads-indiana-basketball-1981-ncaa-title |url-status=live }}

In 1982–83, with the strong play of Uwe Blab and All-Americans Ted Kitchel and Randy Wittman, the No. 1 ranked Hoosiers were favorites to win another national championship. However, with an injury to Kitchel mid-season, the Hoosiers lost to Kentucky in the 1983 Sweet Sixteen.{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Jared |date=June 17, 2020 |title=Top 10 most disappointing losses in IU basketball history |url=https://247sports.com/college/indiana/contentgallery/indiana-hoosiers-college-basketball-iu-history-disappointing-memorable-losses-top-10-148248312/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=247Sports |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102173640/https://247sports.com/college/indiana/contentgallery/indiana-hoosiers-college-basketball-iu-history-disappointing-memorable-losses-top-10-148248312/ |url-status=live }}

In the 1985–86 season, the Hoosiers were profiled in a bestselling book A Season on the Brink. To write it, Knight granted author John Feinstein almost unprecedented access to the Indiana basketball program, as well as insights into Knight's private life.{{cite web |title=Q&A with John Feinstein |url=http://www.c-span.org/video/?302898-1/qa-john-feinstein |access-date=December 1, 2014 |publisher=C-SPAN Q&A |archive-date=November 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110053340/http://www.c-span.org/video/?302898-1/qa-john-feinstein |url-status=live }} The following season, in 1986–87, the Hoosiers were led by All-American Steve Alford and captured a share of the Big Ten title. The team won Knight's third national championship (the school's fifth) against Syracuse in the 1987 NCAA tournament with a game-winning jump shot by Keith Smart with five seconds remaining in the championship game.{{cite news|first=Rick |last=Weinberg |title=60: Smart's jumper wins NCAA title for Indiana |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments/60 |publisher=ESPN |access-date=March 30, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050516141441/http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments%2F60 |archive-date=May 16, 2005 }}

In the 1988–89 season, the Hoosiers were led by All-American Jay Edwards and won a Big Ten championship.{{Cite web |last=Pegram |first=Mike |date=May 14, 2020 |title=Thursday Throwback: Edwards shoots down the Boilers |url=https://247sports.com/college/indiana/Article/Indiana-Hoosiers-Basketball-Purdue-Thursday-Throwback-Edwards-shoots-down-the-Boilers-147143883/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=247Sports |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102173646/https://247sports.com/college/indiana/Article/Indiana-Hoosiers-Basketball-Purdue-Thursday-Throwback-Edwards-shoots-down-the-Boilers-147143883/ |url-status=live }}

Knight was involved in several controversies in the 1980s as well. In a game between Indiana and Purdue in Bloomington on January 31, 1981, Isiah Thomas allegedly hit Purdue guard Roosevelt Barnes in what some critics described as a "sucker punch".{{cite book |last=Challen |first=Paul |title=The Isiah Thomas Story |publisher=ECW Press |year=2004 |isbn=1-55022-662-2 |location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada}} Video replay later shown by Knight showed Barnes had thrown the first punch, and that Thomas was merely reacting to this.

When the two schools played their second game of the season at Purdue on February 7, 1981, Knight claimed a number of derisive chants were directed at him, his wife, and Indiana University. In response, Knight invited Purdue athletic director George King on his weekly television show to discuss the matter, but King declined. Therefore, in place of King, Knight brought onto the show a "jackass" (male donkey) wearing a Purdue hat as a representative of Purdue.{{cite news |last=Nelson |first=John |date=March 26, 1981 |title=Knight Infamous Prankster |newspaper=The Victoria Advocate}}{{cite web |title=Bob Knight & the Purdue Mascot | date=December 9, 2006 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdm4Oi1YRZY |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113234109/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdm4Oi1YRZY |archive-date=November 13, 2011 |access-date=May 6, 2012 |via=YouTube}}

On February 23, 1985, during a Purdue–Indiana game in Bloomington, five minutes into the game a scramble for a loose ball resulted in a foul call on Indiana's Marty Simmons. Immediately after the resumption of play, a foul was called on Indiana's Daryl Thomas. Knight, irate, insisted the first of the two calls should have been for a jump ball and ultimately received a technical foul. Purdue's Steve Reid stepped to the free throw line to shoot the resulting free throws, but before he could, Knight grabbed a red plastic chair from Indiana's bench and threw it across the floor toward the basket in front of Reid. Knight was charged with a second and third technical foul and was ejected from the game.

He apologized for his actions the next day and was given a one-game suspension and two years' probation from the Big Ten. In later years, Knight would occasionally joke about the chair-throwing incident by saying that he saw an old lady standing on the opposite sideline and threw her the chair so she could sit down.{{cite news |date=February 21, 2005 |title=Knight chair toss resonates 20 years later |newspaper=NBC Sports |url=http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/7008442/ |url-status=dead |access-date=May 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023052612/http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/7008442/ |archive-date=October 23, 2012}}{{cite web |title=Bobby Knight Throws a Chair | date=April 9, 2006 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvRO2GE4x4M |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105013847/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvRO2GE4x4M |archive-date=January 5, 2012 |access-date=May 6, 2012 |via=YouTube}}

Former Indiana basketball player Todd Jadlow has written a book alleging that from 1985 to 1989, Knight punched him in the face, broke a clipboard over the top of his head, and squeezed his testicles and the testicles of other Hoosiers, among other abuses.Corcoran, Tully, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/book-bob-knight-used-to-squeeze-players’-testicles-punch-players-in-the-head-etc/ar-AAjoMbM?O "Book: Bob Knight used to squeeze players' testicles, punch players in the head, Etc."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327080216/http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/book-bob-knight-used-to-squeeze-players%E2%80%99-testicles-punch-players-in-the-head-etc/ar-AAjoMbM?OCID=ansmsnnews11|date=March 27, 2017}}, MSN, October 16, 2016.

In an April 1988 interview with Connie Chung, when discussing an Indiana basketball game in which he felt the referees were making poor calls against the Hoosiers, Knight said, "I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it." In response, women's groups nationwide were outraged by Knight's comments.{{cite news |date=November 14, 2006 |title=Bob Knight's outburst timeline |work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/big12/2006-11-14-knight-timeline_x.htm |url-status=live |access-date=April 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925030044/http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/big12/2006-11-14-knight-timeline_x.htm |archive-date=September 25, 2009}}

From 1990–91 through 1992–93, the Hoosiers posted 87 victories, the most by any Big Ten team in a three-year span, breaking the mark of 86 set by Knight's Indiana teams of 1974–76. They captured two Big Ten crowns in 1990–91 and 1992–93, and during the 1991–92 season reached the Final Four.{{Cite web |last=Bailey |first=Teddy |date=December 4, 2017 |title=IU's 1992 Final Four team had incredible depth |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2017/12/04/ius-1992-final-four-team-had-incredible-depth/921910001/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=The Indianapolis Star |language=en-US |archive-date=June 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629234420/https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2017/12/04/ius-1992-final-four-team-had-incredible-depth/921910001/ |url-status=live }} During the 1992–93 season, the 31–4 Hoosiers finished the season at the top of the AP Poll, but were defeated by Kansas in the Elite Eight. Players from the team in this era included Greg Graham, Pat Knight, All-Americans Damon Bailey and Alan Henderson, Brian Evans, and National Player of the Year Calbert Cheaney.{{Cite magazine |last=Brew |first=Tom |date=March 27, 2020 |title=ON THIS DAY, In 1993, A Wounded Knee, and One Last Missed Opportunity For Great Group |url=https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/on-this-day-indiana-falls-kansas-1993 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |language=en |archive-date=March 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328195531/https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/on-this-day-indiana-falls-kansas-1993 |url-status=live }}

Throughout the mid and late 1990s Knight continued to experience success with continual NCAA tournament appearances and a minimum of 19 wins each season.{{Cite web |title=Bob Knight Coaching Record |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/bob-knight-1.html |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=Sports-Reference.com |language=en}} However, 1993 would be Knight's last conference championship and 1994 would be his last trip to the Sweet Sixteen.{{Cite web |title=Bob Knight – Indiana University IU Hoosiers Basketball History |url=https://indianahq.com/bob-knight/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=IndianaHQ |language=en-US |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102022111/https://indianahq.com/bob-knight/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Bob Knight's coaching tree spread far and wide |url=https://apnews.com/article/bob-knight-coaching-tree-ae4459e7a98899d2d8560cf06ed71b26 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=AP News |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102021903/https://apnews.com/article/bob-knight-coaching-tree-ae4459e7a98899d2d8560cf06ed71b26 |url-status=live }}

Throughout the 1990s Knight was yet again involved in several controversies:

• At a practice leading up to an Indiana–Purdue game in West Lafayette in 1991, Knight yelled expletives and threats that were designed to motivate his Indiana team. In one portion he exclaimed he was "fucking tired of losing to Purdue." The speech was secretly taped and has since gone viral, receiving over 1.84 million views on YouTube alone.{{cite web |title=Bobby Knight - rant |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_2ifFbEYRc |website=youtube.com |access-date=21 May 2025}} Although it is still not known who taped the speech, many former players suspect it was team manager Lawrence Frank. Players who were present were unable to remember the specific speech because such expletive-filled outbursts by Knight were so frequent.{{cite news |last=Lewis |first=Tom |date=February 18, 2008 |title=Did Lawrence Frank Tape Classic Knight Tirade? |newspaper=Indy Cornrows |url=http://www.indycornrows.com/2008/2/18/14524/2873 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413105413/https://www.indycornrows.com/2008/2/18/14524/2873 |archive-date=April 13, 2019}}
• In March 1992 prior to the NCAA regional finals, controversy erupted after Knight playfully mock whipped Indiana players Calbert Cheaney and Pat Graham during practice. The bullwhip had been given to Knight as a gift from his team. Several black leaders complained at the racial connotations of the act, given that Cheaney was a black student.(Knight: My Story, pg. 297.)
• In January 1993, Knight mentioned the recruiting of Ivan Renko, a fictitious Yugoslavian player he had created. Knight created Renko in an attempt to expose disreputable basketball recruiting experts.{{cite web |last1=Hansen |first1=Jeff |title=Ivan Renko was a big time Indiana hoops recruit for Bobby Knight and he taught us a lot about the information era of sports journalism |url=https://giveemhellbrigham.com/ivan-renko-was-a-big-time-indiana-hoops-recruit-for-bobby-knight-and-he-taught-us-a-lot-about-the-information-era-of-sports-journalism/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325130849/https://giveemhellbrigham.com/ivan-renko-was-a-big-time-indiana-hoops-recruit-for-bobby-knight-and-he-taught-us-a-lot-about-the-information-era-of-sports-journalism/ |archive-date=March 25, 2023 |access-date=October 10, 2023 |website=giveemhellbrigham.com|date=February 23, 2023 }} Even though Renko was completely fictitious, several recruiting services started listing him as a prospect with in-depth descriptions of his potential and game style. Some of the more reputable recruiting gurus claimed to have never heard of Renko, whereas some other "experts" even claimed to possess or to see film of him actually playing basketball.{{cite book |author1=Bob Knight |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvuEfNiw0yYC&q=ivan+renko&pg=PA335 |title=Knight: My Story |author2=Bob Hammel |publisher=Thomas Dunne Books |year=2002 |isbn=978-0312282578 |location=New York |pages=334–335 |access-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102224426/https://books.google.com/books?id=IvuEfNiw0yYC&q=ivan+renko&pg=PA335#v=snippet&q=ivan%20renko&f=false |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |url-status=live}}
• Knight was recorded berating an NCAA volunteer at a March 1995 post-game press conference following a 65–60 loss to Missouri in the first round of the NCAA tournament held in Boise, Idaho. The volunteer informed the press that Knight would not be attending the press conference, when Knight was actually running a few minutes late and had planned on attending per NCAA rules.{{cite web |title=ESPN.com – Page2 – Outside the Lines – Bob Knight: The Final Crisis? |url=https://www.espn.com/page2/tvlistings/show3transcript.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603094409/http://sports.espn.go.com/page2/tvlistings/show3transcript.html |archive-date=June 3, 2011 |access-date=October 11, 2010 |publisher=ESPN}}{{cite web |title=1995 – Bobby Knight Rants on NCAA Official | date=June 26, 2012 |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7rv9JUSkh6c |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131032722/https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7rv9JUSkh6c |archive-date=January 31, 2015 |access-date=September 9, 2017 |via=YouTube}}
• Neil Reed and former Indiana player Richard Mandeville alleged in a CNN interview that Knight once showed players his own feces. According to Mandeville, Knight said, "This is how you guys are playing."{{cite web |date=March 15, 2000 |title=Former Players Break Silence About Bobby Knight; Indianians Rally Around Coach (rush transcript) |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/15/nsst.00.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815000238/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/15/nsst.00.html |archive-date=August 15, 2018 |access-date=August 30, 2018 |publisher=CNN}}
• On February 19, 2000, Clarence Doninger, Knight's boss, alleged that he had been physically threatened by Knight during a confrontation after a game.
• An Indiana investigation inquired about an allegation in which Knight berated and physically intimidated a university secretary, once throwing a potted plant in anger, showering her with glass and debris. The university later asked Knight to issue an apology to the secretary.
• It was alleged that Knight attacked assistant coach Ron Felling, throwing him out of a chair after overhearing him criticizing the basketball program in a phone conversation.

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On March 14, 2000, (just before Indiana was to begin play in the NCAA tournament), the CNN Sports Illustrated network ran a piece on Robert Abbott's investigation of Knight in which former player Neil Reed claimed he had been choked by Knight during a practice in 1997.{{cite news|title=The Knight Tape: Video captures encounter between IU coach, ex-player|publisher=CNN Sports Illustrated|date=September 9, 2000|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/thenetwork/news/2000/04/11/knight_cnnsi/|access-date=September 29, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206071248/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/thenetwork/news/2000/04/11/knight_cnnsi/|archive-date=February 6, 2009|url-status=dead}} Knight denied the claims in the story. However, less than a month later, the network aired a tape of an Indiana practice from 1997 that appeared to show Knight placing his hand on the neck of Reed.[http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/09/11/knight.protest.02 CNN.com – Fired Bob Knight calms angry student demonstrators – September 11, 2000] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518025450/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/09/11/knight.protest.02 |date=May 18, 2008 }}

In response, Indiana University president Myles Brand announced that he had adopted a "zero tolerance" policy with regard to Knight's behavior.{{cite web|url=http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/people/k/knight_bob/knight.html |title=Bob Knight – Former Indiana University basketball coach |publisher=.indystar.com |access-date=October 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419194719/http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/people/k/knight_bob/knight.html |archive-date=April 19, 2010 }} Later in the year, in September 2000, Indiana freshman Kent Harvey (not a basketball player) reportedly said, "Hey, Knight, what's up?" to Knight. According to Harvey, Knight then grabbed him by the arm and lectured him for not showing him respect, insisting that Harvey address him as either "Mr. Knight" or "Coach Knight" instead of simply "Knight." Brand stated that this incident was only one of numerous complaints that occurred after the zero-tolerance policy had been put into place. Brand asked Knight to resign on September 10, and when Knight refused, Brand relieved him of his coaching duties effective immediately. Knight's dismissal was met with outrage from students. That night, thousands of Indiana students marched from Indiana University's Assembly Hall to Brand's home, burning Brand in effigy.

Harvey was supported by some and vilified by many who claim he had intentionally set up Knight. Kent Harvey's stepfather, Mark Shaw, was a former Bloomington-area radio talk show host and Knight critic.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/threats-follow-knight-dismissal/ "Threats Follow Knight Dismissal"], 2000/09/11. On September 13, Knight said goodbye to a crowd of some 6,000 supporters in Dunn Meadow at Indiana University.{{Cite web |last=Brennan |first=Eamonn |date=August 14, 2014 |title=What if Bob Knight hadn't been fired? |url=https://www.espn.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/99949/what-if-bob-knight-hadnt-been-fired |access-date=November 3, 2023 |publisher=ESPN |language=en}} He asked that they not hold a grudge against Harvey and that they continue to support the basketball team.{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/bobknight_farewell |title=Internet Archive: Details: Coach Bob Knight's Farewell Address to Indiana University |date=September 13, 2000 |access-date=October 11, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930012504/http://www.archive.org/details/bobknight_farewell |archive-date=September 30, 2009 |url-status=live }} Knight's firing made national headlines, including the cover of Sports Illustrated and around-the-clock coverage on ESPN, as well as mentions on CNN and CBS.{{Cite web |title=Bobby Knight: University Honors and Awards: Indiana University |url=https://honorsandawards.iu.edu/awards/honoree/916.html |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=Indiana University Honors & Awards |language=en-US |archive-date=January 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127213221/https://honorsandawards.iu.edu/awards/honoree/916.html |url-status=live }}

Two days after Knight was fired from Indiana University, Jeremy Schaap of ESPN interviewed him and discussed his time at Indiana. Towards the end of the interview, Knight talked about his son, Pat, who had also been dismissed by the university, wanting an opportunity to be a head coach. Schaap, thinking that Knight was finished, attempted to move on to another subject, but Knight insisted on continuing about his son. Schaap repeatedly tried to ask another question when Knight shifted the conversation to Schaap's style of interviewing, notably chastising him about interruptions. Knight then commented (referring to Schaap's father, Dick Schaap), "You've got a long way to go to be as good as your dad."{{cite web |title=Bob Knight interview |url=http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/people/k/knight_bob/interview.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081105045952/http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/people/k/knight_bob/interview.html |archive-date=November 5, 2008 |work=The Indianapolis Star}}

In a March 2017 interview on The Dan Patrick Show, Knight stated that he had no interest in ever returning to Indiana. When host Dan Patrick commented that most of the administration that had fired Knight seventeen years earlier were no longer there, Knight said, "I hope they're all dead."{{Cite web|date=2017-03-10|title=Bob Knight on old Indiana administration that fired him: 'I hope they're all dead'|url=https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/bob-knight-on-old-indiana-administration-that-fired-him-i-hope-theyre-all-dead/|access-date=2024-01-04|website=CBSSports.com|language=en}}

Knight ultimately returned to Assembly Hall at halftime of Indiana's game against Purdue on February 8, 2020, and received a rousing standing ovation.{{Cite magazine |last=West |first=Jenna |date=February 8, 2020 |title=Bob Knight Returns to Assembly Hall |url=https://www.si.com/college/2020/02/08/bob-knight-return-assembly-hall-indiana-purdue-video |access-date=November 2, 2023 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |language=en-us |archive-date=April 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200403083050/https://www.si.com/college/2020/02/08/bob-knight-return-assembly-hall-indiana-purdue-video |url-status=live }} It was the first Indiana game attended by Knight since his dismissal by the school 20 years prior.{{Cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28660306/emotional-bob-knight-ends-20-year-split-indiana |title=Emotional Knight ends 20-year split with Indiana |date=February 8, 2020 |access-date=February 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209141217/https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28660306/emotional-bob-knight-ends-20-year-split-indiana |archive-date=February 9, 2020 |url-status=live }}

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Following his dismissal from Indiana, Knight took a season off while on the lookout for coaching vacancies.{{Cite web |last=Osterman |first=Zach |date=September 9, 2020 |title=20 years later: The story of Bob Knight's firing from IU basketball |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2020/09/09/20-years-later-story-bob-knights-firing-iu-basketball-20-years-later-story-bob-knights-firing-iu-bas/5750680002/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=The Indianapolis Star |language=en-US}} He accepted the head coaching position at Texas Tech University, although his hiring was opposed by a faculty group led by Walter Schaller, associate professor of philosophy.{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E4D7163DF936A25750C0A9679C8B63 | work=The New York Times | title=COLLEGE BASKETBALL; At Texas Tech, Some Professors Balk at Knight | first=Liz | last=Robbins | date=March 15, 2001 | access-date=April 26, 2010 | archive-date=November 2, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102224422/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/15/sports/college-basketball-at-texas-tech-some-professors-balk-at-knight.html | url-status=live }} When he was introduced at the press conference, Knight quipped, "This is without question the most comfortable red sweater I've had on in six years."{{cite news |last=Drape |first=Joe |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E6D9123CF937A15750C0A9679C8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss |title=COLLEGE BASKETBALL; Texas Tech Will Be Knight's New Home |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 24, 2001 |access-date=October 11, 2010 |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102224430/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/24/sports/college-basketball-texas-tech-will-be-knight-s-new-home.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss |url-status=live }}

Knight quickly improved the program, which had not been to an NCAA tournament since 1996. He led the Red Raiders to postseason appearances in each of his first four years at the school (three NCAA Championship tournaments and one NIT). After a rough 2006 season, the team improved in 2007, finishing 21–13 and again making it to the NCAA tournament, where it lost to Boston College in the first round.{{Cite web |title=Texas Tech 75–84 Boston College (Mar 15, 2007) Final Score |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game/_/gameId/274000026 |access-date=November 3, 2023 |publisher=ESPN |language=en}} The best performance by the Red Raiders under Knight came in 2005 when they advanced as far as the Sweet Sixteen.{{Cite web |last=Giese |first=Nathan |title=A look at Bob Knight's time as Texas Tech basketball coach |url=https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/sports/college/red-raiders/2023/11/01/bob-knights-timeline-as-texas-tech-basketball-coach-death-83/71413863007/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=Lubbock Avalanche-Journal |language=en-US}} In both 2006 and 2007 under Knight, Texas Tech defeated two Top 10-ranked teams in consecutive weeks. During Knight's first six years at Texas Tech, the Red Raiders won 126 games.{{Cite web |last1=Mitchell |first1=Dawn |last2=Glenesk |first2=Matthew |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Timeline: Bob Knight over the years — from Ohio schoolboy to Indiana legend |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2020/02/08/bobby-knight-timeline-indiana-basketball-coach-returns-assembly-hall/4421487002/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=The Indianapolis Star |language=en-US |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102021904/https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2020/02/08/bobby-knight-timeline-indiana-basketball-coach-returns-assembly-hall/4421487002/ |url-status=live }}

During Knight's coaching at Texas Tech, Knight was also involved in several controversies. In March 2006, a student's heckling at Baylor University resulted in Knight having to be restrained by a police officer. The incident was not severe enough to warrant any action from the Big 12 Conference.{{cite news |author=Keith Whitmire |date=March 2, 2006 |title=Big 12 won't take action against Knight |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/colleges/texastech/stories/030306dnspoknight.1c4691b0.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209053151/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/colleges/texastech/stories/030306dnspoknight.1c4691b0.html |archive-date=February 9, 2009}}

On November 13, 2006, Knight was shown allegedly hitting player Michael Prince under the chin to get him to make eye contact. Although Knight did not comment on the incident afterwards, Prince, his parents, and Texas Tech athletic director Gerald Myers insisted that Knight did nothing wrong and that he merely lifted Prince's chin and told him, "Hold your head up and don't worry about mistakes. Just play the game." Prince commented, "He was trying to teach me and I had my head down so he raised my chin up. He was telling me to go out there and don't be afraid to make mistakes. He said I was being too hard on myself." ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla defended Knight by saying "That's coaching!"{{cite news |author=Chad, Norman |date=November 20, 2006 |title=Viewing the Knight file, through fact and fiction |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |url=https://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/chad/4350211.html |url-status=live |access-date=January 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604205514/http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/chad/4350211.html |archive-date=June 4, 2011}}

On October 21, 2007, James Simpson of Lubbock, Texas, accused Knight of firing a shotgun in his direction after he yelled at Knight and another man for hunting too close to his home.{{cite news |author=Brandon George |date=November 29, 2007 |title=Bob Knight's hunting dispute on video |work=The Dallas Morning News |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/112907dnspoknight.4acb07d7.html |url-status=live |access-date=November 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130172515/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/112907dnspoknight.4acb07d7.html |archive-date=November 30, 2007}} Knight denied the allegations; however, an argument between the two men was recorded via camera phone and aired later on television.{{cite news |date=February 4, 2008 |title=Bob Knight confronted during hunting trip |work=The Dallas Morning News |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/video/dallasnews/sports/index.html?nvid=196646 |url-status=live |access-date=September 29, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924213054/http://www.dallasnews.com/video/dallasnews/sports/index.html?nvid=196646 |archive-date=September 24, 2008}}

Knight won his 900th game in his coaching career on January 16, 2008, in a 68–58 win against Texas A&M, but not before arguing with referees during the match.{{Cite web |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Bob Knight's coaching tree spread far and wide |url=https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/bob-knight-s-coaching-tree-spread-far-and-wide-18463245.php |access-date=November 4, 2023 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |agency=Associated Press |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Bobby Knight, Indiana's Combustible Coaching Giant, Dies at Age 83 |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/bobby-knight-indiana-s-combustible-coaching-giant-dies-at-age-83/7338275.html |access-date=November 4, 2023 |publisher=Voice of America |agency=Associated Press |language=en}}

On February 4, 2008, Knight announced his retirement.{{Cite web |last=Campbell |first=Lauren |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Bob Knight, polarizing college basketball coach, dies at 83 |url=https://www.masslive.com/sports/2023/11/bob-knight-legendary-college-basketball-coach-dies-at-83.html |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=MassLive |language=en}} His son Pat Knight, the head coach designate since 2005, was immediately named as his successor at Texas Tech.{{Cite web |date=October 2, 2005 |title=Knight's successor is his son |url=https://www.deseret.com/2005/10/2/19915144/knight-s-successor-is-his-son |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=Deseret News |agency=Associated Press |language=en}} The younger Knight had said that after many years of coaching, his father was exhausted and ready to retire.{{cite magazine|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/seth_davis/02/05/davis.night/|title='He was just worn out': Pat Knight sheds light on father's decision to leave|magazine=Sports Illustrated|access-date=February 5, 2008|date=February 5, 2008|author=Davis, Seth|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208132022/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/seth_davis/02/05/davis.night/|archive-date=February 8, 2008|url-status=dead}} Just after achieving his 900th win, Knight handed the job over to Pat in the mid-season in part to allow him to get acquainted with coaching the team earlier, instead of having him wait until October, the start of the next season.{{cite news | url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/seth_davis/02/05/davis.night/ | publisher=CNN | title=Pat Knight sheds light on father's decision to leave | date=February 5, 2008 | access-date=April 26, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622035840/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/seth_davis/02/05/davis.night/ | archive-date=June 22, 2011 | url-status=dead }} Knight continued to live in Lubbock after he retired.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/sports/ncaabasketball/05knight.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin |title=Bob Knight Resigns as Coach of Texas Tech |newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=February 4, 2008|date=February 4, 2008|author1=Thayer Evans |author2=Pete Thamel |author2-link=Pete Thamel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130021047/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/sports/ncaabasketball/05knight.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin|archive-date=November 30, 2016|url-status=live}}

In 1978, Knight was named the head coach of the United States men's national team for the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico.{{cite news |title=Knight picked to coach Pan American cage team |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/69294844/ |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=The Pantagraph |agency=Associated Press |date=13 December 1978 |page=B2 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}} The team, which included players such as Isiah Thomas and Ralph Sampson, trained together for more than 50 days and played in a tournament in Italy before arriving in Puerto Rico. During the games, Knight led the United States to a 9–0 record, with an average victory of 21.2 points, and gold medal.

However, his behaviour during the games, where he feuded with referees, officials and made critical comments about Puerto Rico, was heavily criticized,{{cite news |author1=John Jeansonne |title=The final score…. |url=https://johnfjeansonne.medium.com/the-final-score-7102653b65e8 |access-date=31 August 2024 |work=Medium.com |date=3 November 2023}}{{cite news |author1=Neil Amdur |title=Knight Scolded |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/04/archives/knight-scolded-us-five-wins-team-pulls-together-very-serious.html |access-date=31 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=4 July 1979}}{{closed access}} including by the president of the Basketball Federation of Puerto Rico, Arturo C. Gallardo, in a lengthy article in the New York Times.{{cite news |author1=Arturo C. Gallardo |title=In the Matter of Bobby Knight: The View From Puerto Rico |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/30/archives/in-the-matter-of-bobby-knight-the-view-from-puerto-rico-remark.html |access-date=31 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=30 December 1979}}{{closed access}} During the first game, with the United States leading by 35 points, he was ejected for arguing with referees and in another incident during a practice session, Knight was accused of assaulting the policeman guarding the gymnasium and was arrested. Both Knight and assistant coach Mike Krzyzewski refuted the policeman's version of the incident, with Krzyzewski stating "It's really unbelievable, the out-and-out lies that are being told. It's like my standing here and saying that my name is not Mike Krzyzewski, that it's Fred Taylor."{{cite magazine |author1=John Papanek |title=Triumph and turmoil in the Pan-Am games |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1979/07/23/triumph-and-turmoil-in-the-pan-am-games-his-basketball-players-won-gold-medals-but-coach-bobby-knight-precipitated-an-ugly-uproar-with-his-controversial-behavior-in-san-juan |access-date=31 August 2024 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=23 July 1979 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310222228/https://vault.si.com/vault/1979/07/23/triumph-and-turmoil-in-the-pan-am-games-his-basketball-players-won-gold-medals-but-coach-bobby-knight-precipitated-an-ugly-uproar-with-his-controversial-behavior-in-san-juan |archive-date=10 March 2021}} Knight was later charged with assault and summoned to appear before a judge but left the island before trial was held and refused to return with Indiana officials further rejecting Puerto Rican's extradition requests. He was later tried in absentia, found guilty and sentenced to a six-month prison term and a 500 dollar fine. Following a United States Supreme Court ruling in 1987 that overturned a law which gave state governors the power to reject extradition requests and opened up the possibility of his extradition to Puerto Rico, Knight wrote a letter to the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee, Germán Rieckehoff, apologizing for the incident. Rieckehoff "urged the Commonwealth not to consider any further legal action against Knight".{{cite news |title=Bobby Knight apologizes to Puerto Ricans for 1979 incident |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/07/22/Bobby-Knight-apologizes-to-Puerto-Ricans-for-1979-incident/3493553924800/ |access-date=31 August 2024 |work=United Press International |date=22 July 1987}}

Despite the controversies, Knight was selected in 1982 to coach the U.S. national team at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games.{{cite news |author1=Larry Edsall |title=Is the gold worth Knight's antics? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1080018624/ |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=The Muskegon Chronicle |agency=Booth News Service |date=5 August 1984 |page=3C |via=Newspapers.com}}{{closed access}}{{cite news |author1=Kevin Cowherd |title=Bob Knight can coach, but should he be ours? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/140792431/ |access-date=1 September 2024 |publisher=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=21 April 1984 |page=3B |via=Newspapers.com}}{{closed access}}{{cite news |author1=Denis Collins |title=Knight, Preparing for Olympics, Would Leave 'Incident' Behind |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1982/08/01/knight-preparing-for-olympics-would-leave-incident-behind/638e8b51-b42f-4440-9cfe-a9a8a9d353c4/ |access-date=31 August 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=1 August 1982}}{{closed access}}{{cite news |author1=George Vecsey |title=Not the Real Bobby Knight |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/16/sports/sports-of-the-times-not-the-real-bobby-knight.html |access-date=31 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=16 June 1982}} He held a 72 player tryout camp in April 1984 before settling on the 12 man roster which included Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin and Knight's Indiana player and protégé Steve Alford.{{Cite web |title=Jeff Turner Still Cherishes 1984 Olympic Gold Medal |url=https://www.nba.com/magic/news/jeff-turner-still-cherishes-1984-olympic-gold-medal-cohen-20160805 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |publisher=National Basketball Association |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102021901/https://www.nba.com/magic/news/jeff-turner-still-cherishes-1984-olympic-gold-medal-cohen-20160805 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last=Cunningham |first=Carson |title=American Hoops: U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball From Berlin to Beijing |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8032-2293-9}}{{cite news |title=Bob Knight's moves with 1984 US Olympic team showed his scouting skills matched his tactical skills |url=https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-basketball/bob-knights-moves-with-1984-us-olympic-team-showed-his-scouting-skills-matched-his-tactical-skills |access-date=31 August 2024 |work=Fox Sports |agency=Associated Press |date=2 November 2023}}

Worries that his behavior would again cause embarrassment during the games turned out to be unfounded and, despite rants and raves at officials, Knight was considered to be on his best behavior.{{cite news |title=Fears of basketball Knight-mare eased by unusually diplomatic Indiana coach |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/129496390/ |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=The Palm Beach Post |agency=Associated Press |date=8 August 1984 |page=D2 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}} He led the United States to victory in all eight games and to a gold medal.{{cite news |author1=Doug Haller |title=Knight, Barkley, Stockton and the bus of shame: Tales from the 1984 Olympic trials |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2173922/2021/01/14/bobby-knight-1984-olympic-trials-barkley-jordan-basketball/ |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=The Athletic |publisher=The New York Times |date=14 January 2021}}{{cite news |title=Bobby Knight, who coached 1984 U.S. Olympic men's basketball team to gold, dies at 83 |url=https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/bobby-knight-dies-basketball-coach-olympics-michael-jordan |access-date=31 August 2024 |work=NBC Sports |date=1 November 2023}} Doing so, Knight joined Pete Newell and Dean Smith as the only three coaches to win an NCAA title, NIT title, and Olympic gold.{{cite web|title=Bob Knight|publisher=Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame|url=https://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/bob-knight/|access-date=November 4, 2023}}{{cite news|first=John|last=Feinstein|title=Knight, Smith: in Atlanta, Going First Class by Coach|date=March 22, 1984|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1984/03/22/knight-smith-in-atlanta-going-first-class-by-coach/fbd392df-48bb-4ad8-a97f-e1562bcc1a11/|access-date=November 4, 2023}}

In 2008, ESPN hired Knight as a studio analyst and occasional color commentator.[https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/news/story?id=3269476 "Bob Knight joins ESPN for Championship Week and NCAA Tournament"], ESPN (AP), February 29, 2008. In November 2012, he called an Indiana men's basketball game for the first time, something he had previously refused to do.{{Cite book |last=Amato |first=Laura |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yAx-DwAAQBAJ&dq=In+November+2012,+Bob+Knight+called+an+Indiana+men's+basketball+game+for+the+first+time&pg=PT96 |title=Rising Above the Madness: Profiles of the Greatest NCAA Basketball Coaches of All Time |date=March 19, 2019 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-61243-919-8 |language=en}} Then-men's basketball coach Tom Crean reached out to Knight in an attempt to get him to visit the school again.{{cite web|url=http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/26283066/32640014 |title=User Blogs |access-date=January 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103152604/http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/26283066/32640014 |archive-date=November 3, 2013 }} On April 2, 2015, ESPN announced that it would not renew its contract with Knight.{{cite magazine|last1=Deitsch|first1=Richard|title=Source: ESPN will not renew contract of college hoops analyst Bob Knight|url=https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/04/02/bob-knight-not-renewed-espn|magazine=Sports Illustrated|access-date=April 2, 2015|date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405030611/http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/04/02/bob-knight-not-renewed-espn|archive-date=April 5, 2015|url-status=live}}

On February 27, 2019, Don Fischer, an IU radio announcer since 1974, said during an interview that Knight was in ill health. He continued by saying Knight's health "has declined" but did not offer any specifics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2019/03/01/bobby-knight-iu-basketball-coach-bob-knight-health-don-fischer/3030941002/|title=Health of legendary IU basketball coach Bob Knight said to be in decline|last=Ayello|first=James|website=Indianapolis Star|language=en|access-date=April 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321064716/https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2019/03/01/bobby-knight-iu-basketball-coach-bob-knight-health-don-fischer/3030941002/|archive-date=March 21, 2019|url-status=live}}

On April 4, 2019, Knight made his first public appearance after Fischer made his comments. He appeared with longtime friend and journalist Bob Hammel and spoke about different aspects of his career. During the presentation, Knight seemed to struggle with his memory: he re-introduced his wife to the audience after doing so only 10 minutes earlier, he mistakenly said that former IU basketball player Landon Turner had died, and, after telling a story about Michael Jordan, he later told the same story, replacing Jordan with former IU basketball player Damon Bailey.{{Cite web|url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2019/04/04/iu-basketball-coach-bob-knight-witty-but-struggles-memory-speaking-appearance/3359396002/|title=Former IU basketball coach Bob Knight witty, but struggles with memory at speaking appearance|website=Indianapolis Star|language=en|access-date=April 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405163315/https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2019/04/04/iu-basketball-coach-bob-knight-witty-but-struggles-memory-speaking-appearance/3359396002/|archive-date=April 5, 2019|url-status=live}}

Knight and his wife resided in Lubbock, Texas, even after his retirement.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cambriausa.com/style/at-home-with-the-coach/|title=At Home with the Coach | Cambria Style|access-date=February 25, 2021|archive-date=March 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321110929/https://www.cambriausa.com/style/at-home-with-the-coach/|url-status=live}} On July 10, 2019, the Indiana Daily Student, IU's campus newspaper, reported that Knight and his wife had purchased a home in Bloomington for $572,500, suggesting that Knight had decided to return to Bloomington to live.{{Cite web|url=https://www.idsnews.com/article/2019/07/bob-knight-reportedly-moving-back-to-bloomington|title=Bob Knight reportedly moving back to Bloomington|website=Indiana Daily Student|access-date=July 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712210709/https://www.idsnews.com/article/2019/07/bob-knight-reportedly-moving-back-to-bloomington|archive-date=July 12, 2019|url-status=dead}}

Knight was an innovator of the motion offense, which he perfected and popularized.{{cite news|last=Walker|first=Jeff|title=Knight Developed Motion Offense Through Research, And He's Always Adapting|url=http://www.knight880.com/special/stories/motion.shtml|access-date=April 26, 2012|newspaper=AVALANCHE-JOURNAL|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150127225035/http://www.knight880.com/special/stories/motion.shtml|archive-date=January 27, 2015|url-status=dead}} The system emphasizes post players setting screens and perimeter players passing the ball until a teammate becomes open for an uncontested jump shot or lay-up. This required players to be unselfish, disciplined, and effective in setting and using screens to get open.

Knight's motion offense did not take shape until he began coaching at Indiana. Prior to that, at Army, he ran a "reverse action" offense that involved reversing the ball from one side of the floor to the other and screening along with it. According to Knight, it was a "West Coast offense" that Pete Newell used exclusively during his coaching career.{{Cite web |last=Davis |first=Seth |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Legendary coach Bob Knight dies at 83 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5022341/2023/11/01/bob-knight-death-indiana/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=The Athletic |language=en}} After being exposed to the Princeton offense, Knight instilled more cutting with the offense he employed, which evolved into the motion offense that he ran for most of his career. Knight continued to develop the offense, instituting different cuts over the years and putting his players in different scenarios.{{Cite web |last=Marot |first=Michael |date=November 2, 2023 |title=Innovative motion offense a trademark of Bob Knight's legacy |url=https://www.valleycentral.com/sports/ap-innovative-motion-offense-a-trademark-of-knight-legacy/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |publisher=KVEO-TV |agency=Associated Press |language=en-US}}

Knight was well known for the extreme preparation he put into each game and practice. He was often quoted as saying, "Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."{{cite news|last=Kasakove|first=Evan|title=The legacy of Bob Knight |url=http://www.muhlenbergweekly.com/the-legacy-of-bob-knight-1.2498342 |access-date=April 27, 2012|newspaper=The Muhlenberg Weekly|date=April 13, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110104058/http://www.muhlenbergweekly.com/the-legacy-of-bob-knight-1.2498342 |archive-date=November 10, 2012}} Often during practice, Knight would instruct his players to a certain spot on the floor and give them options of what to do based on how the defense might react. In contrast to set plays, Knight's offense was designed to react according to the defense.

The three-point shot was adopted by the NCAA in 1986, which was midway through Knight's coaching career. Although he opposed the rule change throughout his life, it did complement his offense well by improving the spacing on the floor. He sardonically said at the time that he supported institution of the three-point shot because if a team's offense was functioning efficiently enough to get a layup, the team should be rewarded with three points for that basket. Knight's offense also emphasized a two-count. Players in the post are expected to try to post in the paint for two seconds and if they do not receive the ball they go set a screen. Players with the ball are expected to hold the ball for two seconds to see where they are going to take it. Screens are supposed to be held for two seconds, as well.

On defense Knight was known for emphasizing tenacious "man-to-man" defense where defenders contest every pass and every shot, and help teammates when needed. However, Knight also incorporated a zone defense periodically after eschewing it for the first two decades of his coaching career.{{cite web |url=http://www.knight880.com/special/stories/quotes.shtml |title=Tribute to Coach Bob Knight present by the Lubbock-Avalanche-Journal |publisher=Knight 880 |access-date=October 11, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617034239/http://www.knight880.com/special/stories/quotes.shtml |archive-date=June 17, 2011 |url-status=dead }}

Knight's coaching also included a firm emphasis on academics. All but four of his four-year players completed their degrees, or nearly 98 percent. Nearly 80 percent of his players graduated; this figure was much higher than the national average of 42 percent for Division 1 schools.{{cite news|last=Suellentrop|first=Chris|title=Bob Knight|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2002/03/bob_knight.html|access-date=April 26, 2012|newspaper=Slate|date=March 15, 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425102949/http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2002/03/bob_knight.html|archive-date=April 25, 2012|url-status=live}}

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Knight's all time coaching record is 902–371.{{Cite web |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Knight's illustrious career defined by list of achievements |url=https://apnews.com/article/bob-knight-death-indiana-college-basketball-fa5d2514be632f3b9a04ce2eb44802db |access-date=November 2, 2023 |work=Associated Press News |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102041800/https://apnews.com/article/bob-knight-death-indiana-college-basketball-fa5d2514be632f3b9a04ce2eb44802db |url-status=live }} His 902 wins in NCAA Division I men's college basketball games is fourth all-time to Knight's former player and former Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim, and North Carolina head Coach Roy Williams. Knight achieved his 880th career win on January 1, 2007, and passed retired North Carolina coach Dean Smith for most career victories, a title he held until his win total was surpassed by Krzyzewski on November 15, 2011.{{Cite web |date=January 2, 2007 |title=Bobby Knight gets record-win No. 880 |url=https://www.deseret.com/2007/1/2/19993936/bobby-knight-gets-record-win-no-880 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=Deseret News |agency=Associated Press |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102224425/https://www.deseret.com/2007/1/2/19993936/bobby-knight-gets-record-win-no-880 |url-status=live }} It was later surpassed by Boeheim on January 2, 2013,{{Cite web |date=January 3, 2013 |title=Boeheim gets 903rd win for Syracuse |url=https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/Boeheim-gets-903rd-win-for-Syracuse-4163210.php |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |language=en |archive-date=January 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106235435/http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/Boeheim-gets-903rd-win-for-Syracuse-4163210.php |url-status=live }} and by Williams on March 11, 2021.{{Cite web |last=Pearson |first=Zack |date=March 11, 2021 |title=UNC Basketball: Roy Williams passes Bobby Knight on all-time wins list |url=https://keepingitheel.com/2021/03/11/unc-basketball-roy-williams-passes-bobby-knight-time-wins-list/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=Keeping It Heel |archive-date=March 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312035333/https://keepingitheel.com/2021/03/11/unc-basketball-roy-williams-passes-bobby-knight-time-wins-list/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=March 11, 2021 |title=ACC Tournament Notes: North Carolina 81, Virginia Tech 73 |url=http://theacc.com/news/2021/3/11/mens-basketball-acc-tournament-notes-north-carolina-81-virginia-tech-73.aspx |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=theacc.com |language=en |archive-date=January 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119125339/https://theacc.com/news/2021/3/11/mens-basketball-acc-tournament-notes-north-carolina-81-virginia-tech-73.aspx |url-status=live }} Knight is the youngest coach to reach 200, 300, and 400 wins, as well as among the youngest to reach other milestones of 500, 600, 700, and 800 wins.{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Brent |date=August 22, 2011 |title=Bob Knight To Speak at Wabash College |url=https://sports.wabash.edu/news/2011/8/22/GEN_0822111023.aspx?path=general |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=Wabash College Athletics |language=en |archive-date=February 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204171150/https://sports.wabash.edu/news/2011/8/22/GEN_0822111023.aspx?path=general |url-status=live }}

Texas Tech's participation in the 2007 NCAA tournament gave Knight more NCAA tournament appearances than any other coach. He is the only coach to win the NCAA, the NIT, an Olympic gold medal, and a Pan American Games Gold medal.{{cite web |url=http://texastech.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/062707aad.html |title=Bob Knight nominated for ESPY Award |publisher=CSTV.com |date=June 27, 2007 |access-date=June 28, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016122844/http://texastech.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/062707aad.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 }} Knight is also one of only three people, along with Smith and Joe B. Hall, who have both played on and coached an NCAA Tournament championship basketball team.

Knight received a number of personal honors during and after his coaching career. He was named the National Coach of the Year four times (1975, 1976, 1987, 1989){{Cite web |last=Norlander |first=Matt |date=November 2, 2023 |title=Bob Knight dies at 83: Legendary Indiana basketball coach guided Hoosiers to three national championships |url=https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/bob-knight-dies-at-83-legendary-indiana-basketball-coach-guided-hoosiers-to-three-national-championships/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=CBS Sports |language=en}} and Big Ten Coach of the Year eight times (1973, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1989, 1992, 1993). In 1975 he was a unanimous selection as National Coach of the Year, an honor he was accorded again in 1976 by the Associated Press. In 1987 he was the first person to be honored with the Naismith Coach of the Year Award. In 1989 he garnered National Coach of the Year honors by the AP, UPI, and the United States Basketball Writers Association.{{Cite web |last=Schumann |first=Mike |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Legendary former IU basketball coach Bob Knight has passed away |url=https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/legendary-former-iu-basketball-coach-bob-knight-has-passed-away/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=The Daily Hoosier |language=en-US}} Knight was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991.{{Cite news |last=Moran |first=Malcolm |date=May 13, 1991 |title=BASKETBALL; Knight to Join Mentors And the Game's Greats |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/13/sports/basketball-knight-to-join-mentors-and-the-game-s-greats.html |access-date=November 2, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102123105/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/13/sports/basketball-knight-to-join-mentors-and-the-game-s-greats.html |url-status=live }}

On November 17, 2006, Knight was recognized for his impact on college basketball as a member of the founding class of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. The following year, he was the recipient of the Naismith Award for Men's Outstanding Contribution to Basketball.{{cite news | url=http://media.www.dailytoreador.com/media/storage/paper870/news/2007/03/30/Sports/Knight.To.Receive.Naismith.Award-2813903.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition | title=Knight to receive Naismith award | newspaper=The Daily Toreador | date=March 30, 2007 | access-date=March 30, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011347/http://media.www.dailytoreador.com/media/storage/paper870/news/2007/03/30/Sports/Knight.To.Receive.Naismith.Award-2813903.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition | archive-date=September 27, 2007 }} Knight was also inducted into the Army Sports Hall of Fame (Class of 2008){{Cite web |date=May 29, 2008 |title=Bob Knight among inductees to Army Sports Hall of Fame |url=https://www.recordonline.com/story/sports/college/2008/05/29/bob-knight-among-inductees-to/52395731007/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=Times Herald-Record |language=en-US}} and the Indiana Hoosiers athletics Hall of Fame (Class of 2009). In August 2003, he was honored as the first inductee in The Vince Lombardi Titletown Legends.{{Cite web |date=August 6, 2003 |title=Coach Knight To Be Inducted As Vince Lombardi Titletown Legend |url=http://big12sports.com/news/2003/8/6/1518919.aspx |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=Big 12 Sports |language=en}}

Three banners were hung at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall as a result of the three national championship wins led by Knight.{{Cite web |last=Aaron Golden |first=Todd |date=November 2, 2023 |title=Bob Knight, the biggest legend in Indiana history, dead at 83 |url=https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/sports/bob-knight-the-biggest-legend-in-indiana-history-dead-at-83/article_df9ac448-79aa-11ee-b619-df7f0fa8cc3e.html |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=Valdosta Daily Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=February 9, 2020 |title=6-Banner Sunday: The return of Bob Knight sends Assembly Hall to a craze despite loss to Purdue |url=https://www.insidethehall.com/2020/02/09/6-banner-sunday-the-return-of-bob-knight-sends-assembly-hall-to-a-craze-despite-loss-to-purdue/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=Inside the Hall |language=en-US}}

A number of Knight's assistant coaches, players, and managers have gone on to be coaches. In the college ranks, this includes Hall of Fame Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, Steve Alford, Murry Bartow, Dan Dakich, Bob Donewald, Marty Simmons, Jim Crews, Chris Beard, Matt Bowen and Dusty May.{{Cite web |last=Borzello |first=Jeff |date=November 1, 2023 |title=The coaching legacy Bob Knight leaves behind |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/37033282/the-vast-coaching-tree-bob-knight |access-date=November 3, 2023 |publisher=ESPN |language=en}} Among NBA coaches, they include Randy Wittman, Mike Woodson, Keith Smart, Isiah Thomas, and Lawrence Frank.{{Cite web |last=Cobb |first=David |date=November 2, 2023 |title=Bob Knight coaching tree: Mike Krzyzewski, Chris Beard among dozens impacted by college basketball icon |url=https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/bob-knight-coaching-tree-mike-krzyzewski-chris-beard-among-dozens-impacted-by-college-basketball-icon/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=CBS Sports |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Shuler |first=Roger |date=March 26, 1987 |title=WORKING FOR KNIGHT A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR BARTOW'S SON |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-03-26-8701230436-story.html |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=Chicago Tribune}}

In 1986, author John Feinstein published A Season on the Brink, which detailed the 1985–86 season of the Indiana Hoosiers. Granted almost unprecedented access to the Indiana basketball program, as well as insights into Knight's private life, the book quickly became a major bestseller and spawned a new genre, as a legion of imitators wrote works covering a single year of a sports franchise. In the book Feinstein depicts a coach who is quick with a violent temper, but also one who never cheats and strictly follows all of the NCAA's rules.{{Cite web |title=A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers by John Feinstein |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780025372306 |access-date=November 1, 2023 |website=Publishers Weekly |archive-date=May 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530005431/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780025372306 |url-status=live }}

Two years later, author Joan Mellen penned the book Bob Knight: His Own Man ({{ISBN|0-380-70809-4}}), in part to rebut Feinstein's A Season on the Brink. Mellen deals with seemingly all the causes celebres in Knight's career and presents the view that he is more sinned against than sinning.{{Cite news |last=Plambeck |first=Joseph |date=February 8, 2008 |title=Spotlight On: Bob Knight |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/sports/playemail/0207playknight.html |access-date=November 1, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101235707/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/sports/playemail/0207playknight.html |url-status=live }}

In 1990, Robert P. Sulek wrote Hoosier Honor: Bob Knight and Academic Success at Indiana University which discusses the academic side of the basketball program. The book details all of the players that have played for Knight and what degree they earned.{{Cite book|title=Hoosier honor : Bob Knight and academic success at Indiana University|last=Sulek, Robert Paul.|date=1990|publisher=Praeger|isbn=0275934470|location=New York|oclc=20262460}}

A number of close associates and friends of Knight have also written books about him. Former player and current Nevada Wolf Pack head basketball coach Steve Alford wrote Playing for Knight: My Six Seasons with Bobby Knight, published in 1990.{{Cite book |last=Alford, Steve. |url=https://archive.org/details/playingforknight00alfo |title=Playing for Knight : my six seasons with Coach Knight |publisher=Simon and Schuster |others=Garrity, John. |year=1990 |isbn=067172441X |edition=1st Fireside |location=New York |oclc=23255421 |url-access=registration |orig-year=1989}} Former player Kirk Haston wrote Days of Knight: How the General Changed My Life, published in 2016.{{Cite book |last=Haston, Kirk, 1979– |title=Days of knight : how the general changed my life |date=August 29, 2016 |isbn=9780253022400 |location=Bloomington |oclc=952855479}}

Knight's autobiography, written with longtime friend and sports journalist Bob Hammel, was titled Knight: My Story and published in 2003.{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Brody |title=Bob Knight's last fight |url=http://specials.idsnews.com/knight/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=Indiana Daily Student News |archive-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604164930/http://specials.idsnews.com/knight/ |url-status=live }} Three years later Steve Delsohn and Mark Heisler wrote Bob Knight: An Unauthorized Biography.{{Cite web |last=Littlefield |first=Bill |date=February 18, 2006 |title=Show rundown for 2/18/2006 |url=https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2006/02/18/show-rundown-for-2182006 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |publisher=WBUR |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102020140/https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2006/02/18/show-rundown-for-2182006 |url-status=live }}

In 2013, Knight and Bob Hammel published The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results.{{Cite book|title=The power of negative thinking : an unconventional approach to achieving positive results|last=Knight, Bobby |isbn=9780544027718|location=Boston |publisher=New Harvest |oclc=828148611|year=2013|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/powerofnegativet0000knig}} Knight discussed his approach to preparing for a game by anticipating all of the things that could go wrong and trying to prevent it or having a plan to deal with it. In the book Knight also shared one of his favorite sayings, "Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes."{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/basketball/2013/03/04/bob-knight-new-book/1963405/|title=Bob Knight's book harnesses power of negative thinking|website=USA Today|language=en|access-date=April 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422063557/https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/basketball/2013/03/04/bob-knight-new-book/1963405/|archive-date=April 22, 2019|url-status=live}}

In 2017, sports reporter Terry Hutchens published Following the General: Why Three Coaches Have Been Unable to Return Indiana Basketball to Greatness which discussed Knight's coaching legacy with Indiana and how none of the coaches following him have been able to reach his level of success.{{Cite book |last=Hutchens |first=Terry|year=2017 |title=Following the general: why three coaches have been unable to return Indiana basketball to greatness |location=Indianapolis |publisher=Terry Hutchens Publications |isbn=9780997396522 |oclc=1006378833 }}

Knight appeared or was featured in numerous films and television productions. In 1994 a feature film titled Blue Chips featured a character named Pete Bell, a volatile but honest college basketball coach under pressure to win who decides to blatantly violate NCAA rules to field a competitive team after a sub-par season.{{Cite magazine |last=Rohan |first=Tim |date=July 8, 2019 |title=The inside story of Blue Chips |url=https://www.si.com/nba/2019/07/08/blue-chips-movie-oral-history-25-year-anniversary-basketball |access-date=November 3, 2023 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |language=en-us}} It starred Nick Nolte as Bell and NBA star Shaquille O'Neal as Neon Bodeaux, a once-in-a-lifetime player that boosters woo to his school with gifts and other perks. The coach's temper and wardrobe were modeled after Knight's, though at no time had Knight been known to illegally recruit.{{Cite web |last=Benbow |first=Dana Hunsinger |date=February 16, 2019 |title=25 years later: Behind the scenes of 'Blue Chips,' Bob Knight refused to lose to that Hollywood team |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2019/02/16/bobby-knight-didnt-want-iu-baskeball-lose-nick-notle-western-blue-chips-movie/2638183002/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=The Indianapolis Star |language=en-US}} Knight himself appears in the film and coaches against Nolte in the film's climactic game.

ESPN's first feature-length film was A Season on the Brink, a 2002 TV adaptation from John Feinstein's book.{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Jaden |date=November 2, 2023 |title=Bob Knight, College Basketball Coach and ESPN Analyst, Dies at 83 |url=https://variety.com/2023/sports/obituaries-people-news/bob-knight-dead-basketball-coach-1235776798/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} In the film Knight is played by Brian Dennehy.{{Cite web |last=Benbow |first=Dana Hunsinger |date=April 16, 2020 |title=Brian Dennehy portrayal of IU basketball coach Bob Knight 'weirdest situation' in acting career |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2020/04/16/when-brian-dennehy-played-ius-bob-knight-a-season-brink/5147071002/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=The Indianapolis Star |language=en-US}} ESPN also featured Knight in a reality show titled Knight School, which followed a handful of Texas Tech students as they competed for the right to join the basketball team as a non-scholarship player.{{Cite web |title=Knight School |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/knight-school/cast/1000301085/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=TV Guide |language=en}}

Knight made a cameo appearance as himself in the 2003 film Anger Management.{{Cite web |date=June 3, 2002 |title=Knight To Appear W/ Nicholson In Film About Anger Management |url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2002/06/03/Sports-Industrialists/Knight-To-Appear-W-Nicholson-In-Film-About-Anger-Management.aspx |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=Sports Business Journal |language=en}} In 2008, Knight appeared in a commercial as part of Volkswagen's Das Auto series where Max, a 1964 black Beetle, interviews famous people. When Knight talked about Volkswagen winning the best resale value award in 2008, Max replied, "At least one of us is winning a title this year." This prompted Knight to throw his chair off the stage and walk out saying, "I may not be retired."{{cite web|title=Angry Bob Knight Yells At Volkswagen|publisher=Jalopnik|url=http://jalopnik.com/377439/angry-bob-knight-yells-at-volkswagen|access-date=September 29, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913173812/http://jalopnik.com/377439/angry-bob-knight-yells-at-volkswagen|archive-date=September 13, 2008|url-status=dead}}

Knight also made an appearance in a TV commercial for Guitar Hero: Metallica and Risky Business with fellow coaches Mike Krzyzewski, Rick Pitino, and Roy Williams.{{Cite web |date=March 30, 2009 |title=Knight rocks the house |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2009/03/30/knight-rocks-the-house/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=The Denver Post |language=en-US}}

In 2009, Knight produced three instructional coaching DVD libraries—on motion offense, man-to-man defense, and instilling mental toughness—with Championship Productions.{{Cite web|url=https://www.championshipproductions.com/cgi-bin/champ/auth/526/Bob-Knight.html|title=Bob Knight|website=championshipproductions.com|access-date=March 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911011013/http://www.championshipproductions.com/cgi-bin/champ/auth/526/Bob-Knight.html|archive-date=September 11, 2018|url-status=dead}}

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Knight married the former Nancy Falk{{cite book|last1=Delsohn|first1=Steve|last2=Heisler|first2=Mark|title=Bob Knight : the unauthorized biography|date=2006|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=9780743243483|page=[https://archive.org/details/bobknightunautho00dels/page/21 21]|url=https://archive.org/details/bobknightunautho00dels|url-access=registration|access-date=April 29, 2016}} on April 17, 1963. They had two sons, Tim and Pat.{{Cite news |last=Schudel |first=Matt |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Bob Knight, polarizing powerhouse coach of college basketball, dies at 83 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/01/coach-bob-knight-dead/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} The couple divorced in 1985. Pat played at Indiana from 1991 to 1995 and was head coach at Lamar from the time of his father's retirement until he was dismissed in 2014.{{Cite web |date=March 7, 2011 |title=Pat Knight fired as coach at Texas Tech |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pat-knight-fired-as-coach-at-texas-tech/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |publisher=CBS News |language=en-US}}{{Cite magazine |last=Mascaro |first=Chris |date=February 16, 2014 |title=Pat Knight, son of Bob, fired as Lamar University's men's basketball coach |url=https://www.si.com/si-wire/2014/02/16/pat-knight-fired-by-lamar-university |access-date=November 3, 2023 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |language=en-us}} Pat Knight coached Texas Tech after his father's retirement before he moved to Lamar. In 1988, Knight married his second wife, Karen Vieth Edgar, a former Oklahoma high school basketball coach.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}{{Cite book |last=Sulek |first=Robert Paul |title=Hoosier honor: Bob Knight and academic success at Indiana University |date=1990 |publisher=Praeger |year=1990 |isbn=0275934470 |location=New York}}

Knight had a high regard for education and made generous donations to the schools he was a part of, particularly libraries. At Indiana University Knight endowed two chairs, one in history and one in law.{{Cite web |last=Bikoff |first=Ken |date=November 1, 2023 |title=Legendary Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight passes at 83 |url=https://247sports.com/college/duke/article/legendary-indiana-basketball-coach-bob-knight-passes-at-83-218739373/ |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=247Sports |language=en}} He also raised nearly $5 million for the Indiana University library system by championing a library fund to support the library's activities. The fund was ultimately named in his honor.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thevwindependent.com/news/2012/10/01/bob-knight-controversial-coach-has-words-of-wisdom/|title=Bob Knight lives life on his own terms|date=October 1, 2012|website=The VW independent|language=en-US|access-date=April 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424192823/http://www.thevwindependent.com/news/2012/10/01/bob-knight-controversial-coach-has-words-of-wisdom/|archive-date=April 24, 2019|url-status=dead}}

When Knight came to Texas Tech in 2001, he gave $10,000 to the library, while his wife gave $25,000, donations which included the first gifts to the Coach Knight Library Fund which has now collected over $300,000.{{Cite web |last=McCoy |first=Mara |date=April 28, 2001 |title=Knight brings money with fame |url=https://www.dailytoreador.com/archives/knight-brings-money-with-fame/article_5d2eaa8c-da75-597f-9978-c5f7184a1e09.html |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=The Daily Toreador |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Indiana University Undergraduate Library Services records, 1952–1998, bulk 1970–1990 |url=https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Ar-VAC1066 |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu}} Later, in 2005, Knight donated an additional $40,000 to the library.{{Cite web |date=March 15, 2005 |title=Knight gives $40,000 to school's libraries |url=https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Knight-gives-40-000-to-school-s-libraries-8692402.php |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=Plainview Herald |language=en-US}} On November 29, 2007, the Texas Tech library honored this with A Legacy of Giving: The Bob Knight Exhibit.

Samples, Ben. "Exhibit Honoring Coach Bob Knight Opens." today.ttu.edu. Texas Tech University, November 21, 2007. Web. October 14, 2017.

On April 18, 2011, video surfaced showing Knight responding to a question concerning John Calipari and Kentucky's men's basketball team by stating that in the previous season, Kentucky made an Elite Eight appearance with "five players who had not attended a single class that semester." These claims were later disproven by the university and the players in question, including Patrick Patterson, who graduated in three years, and John Wall, who finished the semester with a 3.5 GPA.{{cite news |date=April 19, 2011 |title=Kentucky responds to Bob Knight's 'blatantly erroneous' comments |work=USA Today |url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2011/04/bob-knight-kentucky-john-calipari-mitch-barnhart-/1 |url-status=live |access-date=January 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321222457/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2011/04/bob-knight-kentucky-john-calipari-mitch-barnhart-/1 |archive-date=March 21, 2012}} Knight later apologized for his comments stating, "My overall point is that 'one-and-dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize."{{cite news |date=April 19, 2011 |title=Bob Knight apologizes to John Calipari, Kentucky basketball |work=USA Today |url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2011/04/knight-apologizes-kentucky-basketball/1 |url-status=live |access-date=January 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320044943/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2011/04/knight-apologizes-kentucky-basketball/1 |archive-date=March 20, 2012}}

Knight supported Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and later made an appearance at his rally in Indianapolis for the 2018 midterms. At the rally, Knight called Trump "a great defender of the United States of America".{{Cite news|url=http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/2018/11/trumps_road_show_in_florida_says_democrats_too_extreme|title=Trump's Road Show: In Florida, says Democrats too extreme|access-date=November 6, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107010334/http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/2018/11/trumps_road_show_in_florida_says_democrats_too_extreme|archive-date=November 7, 2018|url-status=dead}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/4312558/bob-knight-donald-trump-indiana/|title=Bob Knight Explains Why He Loves Donald Trump|magazine=Time|language=en|access-date=November 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121120629/http://time.com/4312558/bob-knight-donald-trump-indiana/|archive-date=November 21, 2018|url-status=live}}

Knight died in Bloomington, Indiana, on November 1, 2023, at age 83.{{cite web|url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2023/11/01/indiana-basketball-coach-bobby-knight-dies-iu-hoosiers-obituary-bob/5571787002/|title=Legendary Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight dies at 83|work=Indy Star|date=November 1, 2023|first=Zach|last=Osterman|access-date=November 1, 2023|archive-date=November 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101224326/https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2023/11/01/indiana-basketball-coach-bobby-knight-dies-iu-hoosiers-obituary-bob/5571787002/|url-status=live}}

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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Army Cadets

| conference = NCAA University Division independent

| startyear = 1965

| endyear = 1971

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1965–66

| name = Army

| overall = 18–8

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason = NIT Fourth Place

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1966–67

| name = Army

| overall = 13–8

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1967–68

| name = Army

| overall = 20–5

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason = NIT First Round

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1968–69

| name = Army

| overall = 18–10

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason = NIT Fourth Place

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1969–70

| name = Army

| overall = 22–6

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason = NIT Third Place

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1970–71

| name = Army

| overall = 11–13

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Army

| overall = 102–50 ({{Winning percentage|102|50}})

| confrecord =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Indiana Hoosiers

| conference = Big Ten Conference

| startyear = 1971

| endyear = 2000

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1971–72

| name = Indiana

| overall = 17–8

| conference = 9–5

| confstanding = T–3rd

| postseason = NIT First Round

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 1972–73

| name = Indiana

| overall = 22–6

| conference = 11–3

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = NCAA Division I Final Four

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = postseason

| season = 1973–74

| name = Indiana

| overall = 23–5

| conference = 12–2

| confstanding = T–1st

| postseason = CCAT Champion

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 1974–75

| name = Indiana

| overall = 31–1

| conference = 18–0

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = NCAA Division I Elite Eight

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = national

| season = 1975–76

| name = Indiana

| overall = 32–0

| conference = 18–0

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = NCAA Division I Champion

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1976–77

| name = Indiana

| overall = 16–11

| conference = 11–7

| confstanding = 5th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1977–78

| name = Indiana

| overall = 21–8

| conference = 12–6

| confstanding = 2nd

| postseason = NCAA Division I Sweet 16

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = postseason

| season = 1978–79

| name = Indiana

| overall = 22–12

| conference = 10–8

| confstanding = 5th

| postseason = NIT Champion

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 1979–80

| name = Indiana

| overall = 21–8

| conference = 13–5

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = NCAA Division I Sweet 16

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = national

| season = 1980–81

| name = Indiana

| overall = 26–9

| conference = 14–4

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = NCAA Division I Champion

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1981–82

| name = Indiana

| overall = 19–10

| conference = 12–6

| confstanding = T–2nd

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 32

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 1982–83

| name = Indiana

| overall = 24–6

| conference = 13–5

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = NCAA Division I Sweet 16

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1983–84

| name = Indiana

| overall = 22–9

| conference = 13–5

| confstanding = 3rd

| postseason = NCAA Division I Elite Eight

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1984–85

| name = Indiana

| overall = 19–14

| conference = 7–11

| confstanding = 7th

| postseason = NIT Final

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1985–86

| name = Indiana

| overall = 21–8

| conference = 13–5

| confstanding = 2nd

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64

}}

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| championship = national

| season = 1986–87

| name = Indiana

| overall = 30–4

| conference = 15–3

| confstanding = T–1st

| postseason = NCAA Division I Champion

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1987–88

| name = Indiana

| overall = 19–10

| conference = 11–7

| confstanding = 5th

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64

}}

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| championship = conference

| season = 1988–89

| name = Indiana

| overall = 27–8

| conference = 15–3

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = NCAA Division I Sweet 16

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1989–90

| name = Indiana

| overall = 18–11

| conference = 8–10

| confstanding = 7th

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64

}}

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| championship = conference

| season = 1990–91

| name = Indiana

| overall = 29–5

| conference = 15–3

| confstanding = T–1st

| postseason = NCAA Division I Sweet 16

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1991–92

| name = Indiana

| overall = 27–7

| conference = 14–4

| confstanding = 2nd

| postseason = NCAA Division I Final Four

}}

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| championship = conference

| season = 1992–93

| name = Indiana

| overall = 31–4

| conference = 17–1

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = NCAA Division I Elite Eight

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1993–94

| name = Indiana

| overall = 21–9

| conference = 12–6

| confstanding = 3rd

| postseason = NCAA Division I Sweet 16

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1994–95

| name = Indiana

| overall = 19–12

| conference = 11–7

| confstanding = T–3rd

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1995–96

| name = Indiana

| overall = 19–12

| conference = 12–6

| confstanding = T–2nd

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1996–97

| name = Indiana

| overall = 22–11

| conference = 9–9

| confstanding = T–6th

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1997–98

| name = Indiana

| overall = 20–12

| conference = 9–7

| confstanding = T–5th

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 32

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1998–99

| name = Indiana

| overall = 23–11

| conference = 9–7

| confstanding = T–3rd

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 32

}}

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| season = 1999–2000

| name = Indiana

| overall = 20–9

| conference = 10–6

| confstanding = 5th

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64

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| name = Indiana

| overall = 662–239 ({{Winning percentage|662|239}})

| confrecord = 353–151 ({{Winning percentage|353|151}})

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| name = Texas Tech Red Raiders

| conference = Big 12 Conference

| startyear = 2001

| endyear = 2008

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2001–02

| name = Texas Tech

| overall = 23–9

| conference = 10–6

| confstanding = T–3rd

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2002–03

| name = Texas Tech

| overall = 22–13

| conference = 6–10

| confstanding = T–7th

| postseason = NIT Third Place

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2003–04

| name = Texas Tech

| overall = 23–11

| conference = 9–7

| confstanding = T–5th

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 32

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2004–05

| name = Texas Tech

| overall = 22–11

| conference = 10–6

| confstanding = 4th

| postseason = NCAA Division I Sweet 16

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2005–06

| name = Texas Tech

| overall = 15–17

| conference = 6–10

| confstanding = T–7th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2006–07

| name = Texas Tech

| overall = 21–13

| conference = 9–7

| confstanding = 5th

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2007–08

| name = Texas Tech

| overall = 12–8*

| conference = 3–3*

| confstanding = T–6th*

| postseason = *

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Texas Tech

| overall = 138–82 ({{Winning percentage|138|82}})

| confrecord = 53–49 ({{Winning percentage|53|49}})

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of resignation from Texas Tech

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| overall = 902–371 ({{Winning percentage|902|371}})

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