{"id":143595,"date":"2022-11-30T04:55:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/former-indiana-basketball-coach-bob-knight-returns-to-iu-practice-talks-to-the-team-ahead-of-the-unc-game\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T04:55:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T04:55:11","slug":"former-indiana-basketball-coach-bob-knight-returns-to-iu-practice-talks-to-the-team-ahead-of-the-unc-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/former-indiana-basketball-coach-bob-knight-returns-to-iu-practice-talks-to-the-team-ahead-of-the-unc-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight returns to IU practice, talks to the team ahead of the UNC game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Legendary former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight returned to practice today, the day before No. 10 IU’s showdown with No. 18 North Carolina in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n
Knight spoke to the IU basketball team today.<\/span><\/p>\n
“You all didn’t come here to play, you came here to win,” Knight told the players according to walk-on Nathan Childress.<\/span><\/p>\n
Knight has been to IU practices here and there, but it’s been fairly rare due to his declining health.<\/span><\/p>\n
Current IU coach Mike Woodson played for Bob Knight, and Woodson mentions Knight’s name frequently when discussing Indiana basketball with the public or in media Q&A sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n
The Hoosiers (6-0) host the Tar Heels (5-2) on Wednesday (9:15 pm, ESPN) in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.<\/p>\n
Former IU standouts Randy Wittman, a consultant to Woodson, Ted Kitchel and Christian Watford also were at practice. watford Finished his career ranked ninth on the school’s all-time scoring list with 1,730 points, and his 776 career rebounds put him in ninth place on the career rebounds list at IU. Watford was a starter on IU’s 2012-13 team that spent most of the season ranked No. 1 in the country. Watford was a teammate of Jordan Hulls, who now is IU’s director of recruiting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Knight’s Hoosiers beat North Carolina for the national title in 1981 and also ended Michael Jordan’s college career in the 1984 Sweet Sixteen.<\/span><\/p>\n
That 1984 game is one of many Knight masterpieces. North Carolina was No. 1 and had a 28-2 record with two losses by a combined five points. The Tar Heels had five future NBA players in Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins, Brad Daugherty, Kenny Smith and Joe Wolf; a group that scored nearly 70,000 points in the NBA.<\/span><\/p>\n
The Hoosiers were unranked, had a record of 21-8, but upset North Carolina 72-68 as Jordan fouled out with only 13 points. That Indiana had team had only two players who even made an NBA roster, and Steve Alford and Uwe Blab scored a combined 1,249 points in the league.<\/span><\/p>\n
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