Former Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight died in Bloomington Indiana on November 1 2023, according to a post on bobknight.com, a website that represents Knight and his foundation. He was 83. An Orrville, Ohio, native who played at Ohio State collegiately, Robert Montgomery Knight was part of Fred Taylor’s 1960 national championship-winning team that also included future NBA hall-of-famers John Havlicek and Jerry Lucas. After graduating from Ohio State, Knight briefly worked as a high school assistant before taking a similar position at Army, under Tates Locke. He replaced Locke as head coach in West Point in 1965. In 1971, Knight was hired as head coach at Indiana. His 1975-76 team remains the last in Division I men’s basketball to complete a season undefeated, 32-0. Between 1974 and 1976, Indiana lost just once. In total, Knight won 662 games at Indiana, most in program history by some distance. When he retired in 2008, Knight’s 902 wins were an NCAA Division I men’s record. Knight was infamous for his temper. When he allegedly grabbed an IU student on campus in the fall of 2000, he was fired from his job. Knight eventually took the head coaching job at Texas Tech, where he won 138 games and qualified for the NCAA tournament four times in six-plus seasons in Lubbock. After retiring in 2008, Knight worked for ESPN as a college basketball analyst before largely retreating from public life.
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