Indiana Hoosiers basketball fans always waited for Bob Knight to erupt. On a winter night in 1985 it didn't take long. Five minutes into a game against rival Purdue, Knight drew a technical foul then nonchalantly turned around, picked up a chair and hurled it past Boilermakers guard Steve Reid.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana fans always waited for Bob Knight to lose his temper. It was as much a part of Hoosiers basketball under Knight as the wins.Five minutes into a game against rival Purdue, Knight drew a technical foul then nonchalantly turned around,It became a defining moment of Knight’s storied career.
Eventually, the list of his misdeeds under the bright lights grew: pulling his team off the floor against the Soviet Union; hitting a phone at the scorer’s table in the NCAA Tournament; appearing to kick son Pat while he sat on Indiana’s bench; and playfully using a bullwhip on his players during an NCAA news conference.
The video of Knight has drawn hundreds of thousands or millions of views on social media. The images have spawned a few copycats, dozens of tales and countless claims of who actually was inside Assembly Hall when it happened. The crowd gave Knight a standing ovation and chanted “Bob-by! Bob-by!” The raucous applause continued as Knight was called for his third technical and again when he made the short stroll from Indiana’s bench to the locker room.
School officials issued an oddly worded apology from Knight, but they didn’t punish the coach. A year later, they used cables to lock in place the chairs and courtside trash cans. The benches weren’t unlocked until they started using interlocking metal folding chairs decades later. “That’s the furthest I’ve thrown a chair in a long time,” Knight said when he tossed aside a broken metal chair in 2002 while coaching a reinvigorated Texas Tech program.
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