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Knight, Bobby
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popular name of Robert Knight
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| Basketball coach, born in Massillon, Ohio, USA. He played on the Ohio State 1960 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) champion team, then became assistant coach (1963) and head coach (1965–70) at West Point. He became coach at Indiana University (1971) and led his team to three NCAA championships (1976, 1981, 1987), and his Indiana teams never had a losing season. He coached the American team that won the Olympic gold medal in basketball (1984) and the US team that won the gold medal in the Pan American Games (1979). He emphasized discipline and defence on the court, and his passion for winning occasionally got him into trouble: as coach of the US team at the Pan-American Games (1979) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he was charged with aggravated assault against a police officer in the gymnasium; and at the 1981 NCAA ‘final four’, he put a bothersome Louisiana State University supporter in a trash can. |
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