Former Hoosiers coach Knight battling undisclosed illness

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An email from the university about Knight's health was sent to former Indiana basketball players on Friday asking for prayers and saying the former coach hoped to return home soon.

BLOOMINGTON — Former Indiana Hoosiers coach Bob Knight was hospitalized over the weekend with an undisclosed illness but was not listed as a patient on Monday at two hospitals in Bloomington, Indiana, where he lives.The 82-year-old Knight won three national championships, 11 Big Ten titles and 662 games at Indiana before being fired in September 2000 after he allegedly grabbed a student by the arm in a hallway.

Texas Tech hired Knight in 2001, and he stayed there until retiring in 2008 with a then-Division I record 902 career wins. Knight was succeeded by his son, Pat, at Texas Tech and moved back to Bloomington in 2019. Then, after vowing never to return to an Indiana University event, he relented on that promise by attending the Hoosiers' game against Purdue in February 2020, joined by dozens of his former players and former Purdue coach Gene Keady.

 

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Update | Bob Knight was released from a hospital in Bloomington and has returned home his son says.

That nose ain't crimson.

Family posted earlier this afternoon on his website that he has returned home already.

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