LOOK: Indiana basketball to honor legendary Bob Knight with jersey patch for duration of 2023-24 season

Indiana will put on a patch on its house and away jerseys right through the 2023-24 males’s faculty basketball season to honor longtime trainer Bob Knight, who died previous this week at 83. The commemorative patch reads “RMK” for his complete identify (Robert Montgomery Knight) and lines 3 stars above the letters to signify the 3 nationwide championships he introduced to this system in 1976, 1981 and 1987.

Knight coached at Indiana for 29 seasons from 1971 to 2000. He helped lift the Hoosiers program into blue blood standing in males’s faculty basketball and completed his training profession with 902 wins, which sits 6th all time in males’s Division I historical past. 

The eight-time Big Ten Coach of the Year and four-time nationwide trainer of 12 months winner used to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 1991. The following season, Knight guided Indiana to the Final Four, which will be the program’s ultimate commute to the development underneath the course of the legendary and arguable trainer. 

Following his departure from Indiana, Knight used to be employed at Texas Tech the place he coached from 2001-08. Knight took the Texas Tech program to the NCAA Tournament 4 instances in seven seasons, lifting the Red Raiders from bottom-feeder standing to a typical within the Big Dance.