NYTimes: “Bobby Knight, Basketball Coach Known for Trophies and Tantrums, Dies

NYT full story is below my recollection of the day that Bobby went slam-dunking berserk. There was this Cornell vs. Army showdown at West Point when I was an assistant Big Red b-ball coach (we’re talking a long time ago) and I missed the game because my head coach at the time, Jerry Lace, had sent me out on a scouting trip of another foe.

Army won the game that day but Knight was in a rage, as I was told by Lace, because Cornell slowed the game down to a stall. Knight, seething, chased the head coach and the assistant head coach into the locker room where they had to bar the door.

NY Times Story Follows

Bobby Knight, one of college basketball’s signature coaches and a singular personality renowned for his tempestuousness and hubris, qualities that helped bring him to the pinnacle of his sport and also tainted his success, died on Wednesday at his home in Bloomington, Ind. He was 83.

His death was announced in a statement on his website. It did not give a cause.

Mercurial and volatile, Knight was among the most polarizing characters in American sports. He was a brilliant coach who sought out intelligent players, deployed a ferocious man-to-man defense, extolled the virtues of precision passing and…