Bob Knight: a life in images

Knight, left, played basketball at Ohio State, where he was a reserve on a Buckeyes group that reached 3 straight Final Fours from 1960 through 1962. Photo: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive Head coaches Bob Cousy of Boston College, left, Bob Knight of Army, center, and Ray Mears of Tennessee dribble towards the prize each wished to reclaim to his school from the 1969 National Invitational Tournament. Knight invested the very first 6 years of his record-setting head training profession at West Point. Picture: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive From his 1971 arrival in Bloomington, Knight rapidly brought back Indiana’s basketball custom with an innovative movement offense and a nearly specifically man-to-man defense. Picture: Rich Clarkson/NCAA Photos/Getty Images Indiana head coach Bob Knight beings in the locker space after a February 1973 video game versus Northwestern in Bloomington, Indiana. Photo: NCAA Photos/Getty Images Knight, who was a devoted outdoorsman, loads his shotgun while searching on 1 January 1981 in Bloomington, Indiana. Picture: Rich Clarkson/NCAA Photos/Getty Images Knight works the phone in his workplace on Indiana University’s Bloomington school in 1981. Picture: Rich Clarkson/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images Knight hugs Scott May after beating Michigan in the 1976 NCAA title video game to clinch Indiana’s very first nationwide title in 23 years. The 1975-76 Hoosiers went 32-0; it stays the last time a significant college males’s group completed with an ideal record. Picture: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive Knight won his 2nd nationwide title in 1981 behind a group led by Isiah Thomas, right, beating Dean Smith’s North Carolina group after NCAA authorities chose to play the video game hours after United States president Ronald Reagan was shot and injured previously in the day. Photo: George Tiedemann/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images Knight, selected to coach the United States males’s basketball group at the 1984 LA Olympics, talks to Pat Summitt at an interview ahead of the Games. Summitt, the famous Tennessee coach and captain of the 1976 Olympic group, led the females’s side to gold. Photo: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive The Olympic group Knight coached in Los Angeles in 1984 was the last amateur United States group to win gold in guys’s basketball. And, to not a surprise, it featured debate. Knight kept Indiana’s Steve Alford on his group while cutting the similarity future Hall of Famers Charles Barkley and John Stockton. Photo: Peter Read Miller/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images The Indiana coach’s most well-known outburst began 23 February 1985, when Purdue’s Steve Reid will try a totally free toss. A furious Knight got a red plastic chair and heaved it throughout the court, where it landed behind the basket. Picture: AP Knight surrendered an exhibit video game to the Soviet Union in 1987 when he pulled his group off the court after being required a 3rd technical nasty. Photo: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive Knight stalks the sideline throughout a 1990 NCAA competition video game versus California at the Hartford Civic. Picture: Manny Millan/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images Knight, right, participates in Michael Jordan’s jersey retirement event at Chicago’s United Center in November 1994. Jordan won the very first of his 2 Olympic gold medals under Knight at LA 1984. Picture: Nathaniel S Butler/NBAE/Getty Images Knight talks with Indiana guard Neil Reed throughout a February 1995 video game versus Penn State at Assembly Hall in Bloomington. 2 years later on, video appeared of Knight presumably putting his hands around Reed’s neck throughout a practice, a charge that triggered Indiana president Myles Brand to put Knight on a zero-tolerance policy following a university examination. Picture: Gary Mook/Getty Images Knight appears on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in April 2002. Picture: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images Following his ouster from Indiana, Knight resumed his training profession at Texas Tech, a program with a relatively modest basketball custom. In his very first 6 years there, Knight led the Red Raiders to 5 20-plus-win seasons, an accomplishment never ever formerly attained at the school. Photo: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski broke Knight’s all-time wins record in a 2011 video game versus Michigan State at Madison Square Garden that his coach relayed for ESPN. The 2 welcomed later on. Photo: Chris Trotman/Getty Images After a number of years out of the spotlight Knight went back to public view in 2016, requiring to the stump for Republican governmental prospect Donald Trump down the home stretch of his project. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Knight went back to Indiana University for the very first time in twenty years in February 2020 to commemorate the 40th anniversity of the Hoosiers’ 1980 Big Ten champion group, which he coached. He was provided a standing ovation. Photo: Justin Casterline/Getty Images

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