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A quick timeline of Bobby Knight

 

>Robert Montgomery Knight (born October 25, 1940) is a retired American basketball coach. Nicknamed The General, Knight won 902 NCAA Division I men's college basketball games.

1940 Born October 25 in Massillon, Ohio

1958 Graduated from Orrville (OH) High School

1958 Enters Ohio State, where he'll play basketball for three years

1960 Wins NCAA Championship as member of Ohio State basketball team

1962 Graduates from Ohio State with a B.S. in History and Government

1962 Becomes assistant basketball coach at Cuyahoga Falls High School (in Ohio)

1963 Takes position as assistant basketball coach at U.S. Military Academy at West Point

1965 Becomes head basketball coach at U.S. Military Academy at West Point (youngest varsity coach in major college history)

1971 Decides to leave Army coaching job with a record of 102-50

1971 Begins tenure as head coach at Indiana University

1973 Leads Indiana to its first Big 10 conference title (they will win 11 titles under Knight)

1973 Indiana plays in first Final Four (by the time he is fired he will have coached Indiana in five Final Fours)

1976 Upset over a few turnovers, grabs sophomore Jim Wisman by jersey and jerks him into his seat

1976 Records 200th career coaching victory

1976 Leads Indiana to an undefeated season and wins first of three NCAA Championships

1979 Leads Hoosiers to victory in NIT Tournament Championship

1979 Coaches Pan-Am Team to Gold Medal

1979 Tried and convicted (in absentia) for hitting a Puerto Rican policeman at Pan Am practice. Sentenced to six months in jail, which he does not serve because he has already left country

1980 Earns 300th career win

1981 Wins second NCAA Championship at Indiana

1981 While at Final Four in Philadelphia, shoves an LSU fan into a garbage can

1983 Stands at midcourt and swears at Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke over what Knight calls "the worst officiating I have seen in 12 years"

1984 Coaches U.S. Olympic team to gold medal

1984 Becomes one of three coaches in history to win "Triple Crown" of coaching (NCAA, NIT and Olympic Gold Medal)

1985 Allows reporter John Feinstein access to Indiana's program for '85-'86 season. Feinstein would write about what he saw in A Season on the Brink

1986 Recieves technical foul in a game against Illinois, then kicks a megaphone and yells at Indiana cheerleaders for disupting a free throw attempt by Steve Alford

1987 Puerto Rico drops charges on Knight and ceases attempts to extradite him

1987 Wins third NCAA Championship at Indiana

1988 In interview with Connie Chung, Knight says, "If rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it." Knight claims that the quote was taken out of context

1989 Gets 500th win in a victory over Northwestern in January

1989 Becomes winningest coach in Big 10 history

1991 Had asked not to be considered for his induction into Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, calling his rejection in 1987 "a slap in the face"

1992 Gives a mock whipping to Hoosier Calbert Cheaney. Claims it wasn't racially motivated and apoligizes; this same year he bars a female AP reporter from the Indiana locker room

1993 Wins 600th career game; wins 11th Big Ten regular season title. Ties for first among all Big Ten coaches

1994 Head-butts a player while screaming at him on the bench. Claims it was unintentional

1995 Fined $30,000 for an outburst at a post-game news conference

1997 Earns 700th victory on March 5

1999 Accidentally shoots hunting partner in the back and is cited for failing to report incident

2000 Accused of grabbing freshman Indiana student by the arm in fall of '99. Knight yelled at him for "disrespecting him." The student had said, "What's up, Knight."

2000 Fired from Indiana University in September

2001 Named head coach at Texas Tech University on March 23

2001 Compiles a 23-10 record at Texas Tech in his first season as coach

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