Indiana will put on a patch on its residence and away jerseys through the 2023-24 males’s faculty basketball season to honor longtime coach Bob Knight, who died earlier this week at 83. The commemorative patch reads “RMK” for his full identify (Robert Montgomery Knight) and options three stars above the letters to represent the three nationwide championships he dropped at this system in 1976, 1981 and 1987.
Knight coached at Indiana for 29 seasons from 1971 to 2000. He helped elevate the Hoosiers program into blue blood standing in males’s faculty basketball and completed his teaching profession with 902 wins, which sits sixth all time in males’s Division I historical past.Â
The eight-time Huge Ten Coach of the Yr and four-time nationwide coach of yr winner was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Corridor of Fame in 1991. The next season, Knight guided Indiana to the Last 4, which might be this system’s closing journey to the occasion underneath the path of the legendary and controversial coach.Â
Following his departure from Indiana, Knight was employed at Texas Tech the place he coached from 2001-08. Knight took the Texas Tech program to the NCAA Event 4 occasions in seven seasons, lifting the Purple Raiders from bottom-feeder standing to a daily within the Huge Dance.