Former IU men’s basketball coach Bob Knight will hold a talk at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 30, at Bloomington High School North, the school announced Wednesday.
There will be 3,000 general admission tickets available for sale online for $25 each.
The talk will be moderated by longtime Bloomington sportswriter Bob Hammel, and the two will discuss stories from Knight’s coaching career.
Knight won more than 900 games as a head coach with both IU and Texas Tech. In his 29 years at the helm of IU men’s basketball, Knight won three NCAA championships and 11 Big Ten regular season titles.
On September 10, 2000, Knight was fired by IU for an altercation he had with an IU student that violated the school’s “zero-tolerance policy” it implemented with him after a string of allegations that accused the coach of being overly physical and threatening with coaches and players.
Knight has not made many public appearances in Bloomington since his firing, but most recently he held a book signing at a local Walmart in 2013.
Knight is the winningest coach in IU men’s basketball history, with 662 overall victories and 353 Big Ten wins in his time with the Hoosiers.
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