BLOOMINGTON – Former IU coach Bob Knight was admitted to the hospital Friday night, based on a message distributed to program alumni.
Per the contents of the message, a quick replace unfold to former gamers, the hall-of-fame coach had been admitted with an acute sickness. Knight’s son, Pat, launched a message on behalf of the household Monday afternoon saying the previous IU coach had been launched from the hospital and is residence.
“On behalf of the Knight Family, we thanks to your ideas and prayers. As many have heard, my dad was hospitalized over the weekend with an sickness and has since been launched from the hospital. We ask to your privateness as he’s cared for and resting at residence in good fingers. Coach at all times taught us, and people who performed for him, the significance of preventing by adversity and he and our household thanks for the large quantity of assist you’ve gotten proven and given throughout this time. We admire your continued ideas and prayers.”
Indiana’s coach for 29 years, Knight received three nationwide championships main the Hoosiers. He was Division I males’s basketball’s all-time wins chief on the time of his retirement.
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Knight has made his residence in Bloomington for the previous a number of years. In 2020, he broke a long-held promise to not return to this system from which he was dismissed in 2000, when he attended an IU-Purdue sport. Knight has been an everyday behind the scenes at group practices since Mike Woodson — who performed for Knight from 1976-80 — was employed as head coach in March 2021.
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