Ex-Hoosiers coach Bob Knight back home after being released from hospital
Former Indiana Hoosiers coach Bob Knight was released from a hospital in Bloomington, Indiana, and returned home after being admitted with an illness over the weekend, his son said Monday.
"On behalf of the Knight Family, we thank you for your thoughts and prayers. As many have heard, my dad was hospitalized over the weekend with an illness and has since been released from the hospital," according to a statement from Pat Knight posted online. "We ask for your privacy as he is cared for and resting at home in good hands."
An email from the university about Knight’s health was sent to former Indiana basketball players on Friday, asking for prayers and saying Knight hoped to return home soon after being hospitalized with an undisclosed illness.
The university did not have an update on Knight’s condition on Monday.
Knight, 82, coached at Indiana for 29 seasons, winning three national titles and reaching five Final Fours. He also won 11 Big Ten regular-season titles before he was fired in 2000 for a confrontation he had with a student.
A year after his dismissal from Indiana, Knight became the head coach at Texas Tech. He coached there until the middle of the 2007-08 season, announcing his retirement in February 2008.
Knight, who began his coaching at Army, finished his coaching career with 902 wins, which was the most for a Division I men's basketball coach at the time.
Knight had a strained relationship with Indiana for nearly two decades following his firing. But he eventually moved back to Bloomington, Indiana and returned to Assembly Hall for a reunion during a Hoosiers game in 2020. He was reportedly a "weekly visitor" of the men's basketball team this season.
Knight was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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