Former Hoosiers coach Bob Knight battling undisclosed illness

Former Indiana Hoosiers coach Bob Knight was hospitalized overthe weekend with an undisclosed illness but was not listed as apatient on Monday at two hospitals in Bloomington, Indiana, wherehe lives.

An email from the university about Knight’s health was sent toformer Indiana basketball players on Friday asking for prayers andsaying the former coach hoped to return home soon.

The university did not have an update on Knight’s condition onMonday.

The 82-year-old Knight won three national championships, 11 BigTen titles and 662 games at Indiana before being fired in September2000 after he allegedly grabbed a student by the arm in a hallway.The incident violated a zero-tolerance policy instituted by theuniversity following an investigation into accusations of physicaland verbal abuse made by former player Neil Reed, who died of aheart attack in 2012.

Texas Tech hired Knight in 2001, and he stayed there untilretiring in 2008 with a then-Division I record 902 career wins.

Knight was succeeded by his son, Pat, at Texas Tech and movedback to Bloomington in 2019. Then, after vowing never to return toan Indiana University event, he relented on that promise byattending the Hoosiers’ game against Purdue in February 2020,joined by dozens of his former players and former Purdue coach GeneKeady.