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Bob Knight retired as men’s college basketball’s all-time winningest coach. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\nFifty years after he coached the last undefeated men’s Division I basketball team, legendary Indiana coach Bob Knight will be honored with a statue at the program’s Assembly Hall home in Bloomington, Ind., the school announced Monday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Knight, who died in 2023 at age 83, led the Hoosiers to national titles in 1976, 1981 and 1987. He produced a 662-239 record in 29 seasons at Indiana, getting the program to the Final Four five times and overseeing 11 Big Ten regular-season-title-winning squads.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n The university plans to put the next statue next to a set of statues depicting the top six players from the 1975-76 team that went 32-0 — Quinn Buckner, Scott May, Ken Benson, Bobby Wilkerson, Jim Crews and Tom Abernathy.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n “Coach Knight’s influence on the game of basketball is immeasurable, but his impact on this university and Hoosier basketball fans is even deeper,” Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson said in a statement. “On a personal level, having started my career here as a student manager under Coach Knight, I saw firsthand the unparalleled standard of excellence he demanded. He taught me, and countless others, that success is the result of meticulous preparation and unwavering discipline. This statue will be a well-deserved tribute to a man who didn’t just win games; he changed how the sport is played.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n <\/p>\n Before arriving at Indiana, Knight coached Army to a 102-50 record over six seasons. He left Bloomington after with an impeccable basketball record but after a series of controversies including a chair-throwing incident and numerous instances of alleged bullying behavior inside and outside of the team.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Knight subsequently coached at Texas Tech from 2001–02 to 2007-08, taking the Red Raiders to the NCAA Tournament four times.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n His overall record of 902-371 leaves him as one of college basketball’s winningest coaches.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Knight, who coached the U.S. men’s team to a gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991 and the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n The bronze statue will be paid for by a private donor, the Indiana athletic department announced.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n