Editing Bob Knight (section)

====1980s====
[[File:Isiah Thomas and Bobby Knight, The Cincinnati Enquirer 1981-03-15 page C-4.jpg|thumb|Knight with [[Isiah Thomas]] in 1981]]
The [[1979–80 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1979–80 Hoosiers]], led by [[Mike Woodson]] and [[Isiah Thomas]], won the Big Ten championship and advanced to the [[1980 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1980 Sweet Sixteen]].<ref name="Jordan-2022">{{Cite magazine |last=Jordan |first=Haley |date=July 29, 2022 |title=Hoosier Favorite No. 30? Picking Favorite Indiana Basketball Players, One Number At a Time |url=https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/indiana-basketball-hoosiers-by-the-numbers-favorite-player-to-wear-number-30 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102132149/https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/indiana-basketball-hoosiers-by-the-numbers-favorite-player-to-wear-number-30 |url-status=live }}</ref> The following season, in [[1980–81 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1980–81]], Thomas and the Hoosiers once again won a conference title and won the [[1981 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1981 NCAA tournament]], Knight's second national title.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Jordan |first=Haley |date=March 30, 2023 |title=This Day in History: Isiah Thomas Leads Indiana Basketball to 1981 NCAA Title |url=https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/this-day-in-history-bobby-knight-leads-indiana-basketball-1981-ncaa-title |access-date=November 2, 2023 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |language=en |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406152634/https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/this-day-in-history-bobby-knight-leads-indiana-basketball-1981-ncaa-title |url-status=live }}</ref>

In [[1982–83 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1982–83]], with the strong play of [[Uwe Blab]] and All-Americans [[Ted Kitchel]] and [[Randy Wittman]], the No. 1 ranked Hoosiers were favorites to win another national championship.<ref name="IndianaHQ" /> However, with an injury to Kitchel mid-season,<ref name="Jordan-2022" /> the Hoosiers lost to Kentucky in the [[1983 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1983 Sweet Sixteen]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Jared |date=June 17, 2020 |title=Top 10 most disappointing losses in IU basketball history |url=https://247sports.com/college/indiana/contentgallery/indiana-hoosiers-college-basketball-iu-history-disappointing-memorable-losses-top-10-148248312/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=247Sports |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102173640/https://247sports.com/college/indiana/contentgallery/indiana-hoosiers-college-basketball-iu-history-disappointing-memorable-losses-top-10-148248312/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the [[1985–86 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1985–86]] season, the Hoosiers were profiled in a bestselling book ''[[A Season on the Brink]]''.<ref name="Publishers Weekly" /> To write it, Knight granted author [[John Feinstein]] almost unprecedented access to the Indiana basketball program, as well as insights into Knight's private life.<ref name="CSPAN">{{cite web |title=Q&A with John Feinstein |url=http://www.c-span.org/video/?302898-1/qa-john-feinstein |access-date=December 1, 2014 |publisher=C-SPAN Q&A |archive-date=November 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110053340/http://www.c-span.org/video/?302898-1/qa-john-feinstein |url-status=live }}</ref> The following season, in [[1986–87 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1986–87]], the Hoosiers were led by All-American [[Steve Alford]] and captured a share of the Big Ten title.<ref name="Mitchell-2023" /> The team won Knight's third national championship (the school's fifth) against [[Syracuse Orange men's basketball|Syracuse]] in the [[1987 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1987 NCAA tournament]] with a game-winning jump shot by [[Keith Smart]] with five seconds remaining in the championship game.<ref>{{cite news|first=Rick |last=Weinberg |title=60: Smart's jumper wins NCAA title for Indiana |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments/60 |publisher=ESPN |access-date=March 30, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050516141441/http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments%2F60 |archive-date=May 16, 2005 }}</ref>

In the [[1988–89 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1988–89 season]], the Hoosiers were led by All-American [[Jay Edwards (basketball)|Jay Edwards]] and won a Big Ten championship.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pegram |first=Mike |date=May 14, 2020 |title=Thursday Throwback: Edwards shoots down the Boilers |url=https://247sports.com/college/indiana/Article/Indiana-Hoosiers-Basketball-Purdue-Thursday-Throwback-Edwards-shoots-down-the-Boilers-147143883/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=247Sports |language=en |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102173646/https://247sports.com/college/indiana/Article/Indiana-Hoosiers-Basketball-Purdue-Thursday-Throwback-Edwards-shoots-down-the-Boilers-147143883/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Knight was involved in several controversies in the 1980s as well. In a game between Indiana and Purdue in Bloomington on January 31, 1981, Isiah Thomas allegedly hit Purdue guard [[Roosevelt Barnes (American football)|Roosevelt Barnes]] in what some critics described as a "sucker punch".<ref>{{cite book |last=Challen |first=Paul |title=The Isiah Thomas Story |publisher=ECW Press |year=2004 |isbn=1-55022-662-2 |location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada}}</ref> Video replay later shown by Knight showed Barnes had thrown the first punch, and that Thomas was merely reacting to this.

When the two schools played their second game of the season at Purdue on February 7, 1981, Knight claimed a number of derisive chants were directed at him, his wife, and Indiana University. In response, Knight invited Purdue athletic director George King on his weekly television show to discuss the matter, but King declined. Therefore, in place of King, Knight brought onto the show a "jackass" (male donkey) wearing a Purdue hat as a representative of Purdue.<ref>{{cite news |last=Nelson |first=John |date=March 26, 1981 |title=Knight Infamous Prankster |newspaper=The Victoria Advocate}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bob Knight & the Purdue Mascot | date=December 9, 2006 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdm4Oi1YRZY |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113234109/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdm4Oi1YRZY |archive-date=November 13, 2011 |access-date=May 6, 2012 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

On February 23, 1985, during a Purdue–Indiana game in Bloomington, five minutes into the game a scramble for a loose ball resulted in a foul call on Indiana's Marty Simmons. Immediately after the resumption of play, a foul was called on Indiana's Daryl Thomas. Knight, irate, insisted the first of the two calls should have been for a [[jump ball]] and ultimately received a [[technical foul]]. Purdue's Steve Reid stepped to the [[free throw line]] to shoot the resulting free throws, but before he could, Knight grabbed a red plastic chair from Indiana's bench and threw it across the floor toward the basket in front of Reid. Knight was charged with a second and third technical foul and was ejected from the game.

He apologized for his actions the next day and was given a one-game suspension and two years' probation from the [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]]. In later years, Knight would occasionally joke about the chair-throwing incident by saying that he saw an old lady standing on the opposite sideline and threw her the chair so she could sit down.<ref>{{cite news |date=February 21, 2005 |title=Knight chair toss resonates 20 years later |newspaper=NBC Sports |url=http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/7008442/ |url-status=dead |access-date=May 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023052612/http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/7008442/ |archive-date=October 23, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bobby Knight Throws a Chair | date=April 9, 2006 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvRO2GE4x4M |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105013847/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvRO2GE4x4M |archive-date=January 5, 2012 |access-date=May 6, 2012 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

Former Indiana basketball player [[Todd Jadlow]] has written a book alleging that from 1985 to 1989, Knight punched him in the face, broke a clipboard over the top of his head, and squeezed his testicles and the testicles of other Hoosiers, among other abuses.<ref>Corcoran, Tully, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/book-bob-knight-used-to-squeeze-players’-testicles-punch-players-in-the-head-etc/ar-AAjoMbM?O "Book: Bob Knight used to squeeze players' testicles, punch players in the head, Etc."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327080216/http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/book-bob-knight-used-to-squeeze-players%E2%80%99-testicles-punch-players-in-the-head-etc/ar-AAjoMbM?OCID=ansmsnnews11|date=March 27, 2017}}, MSN, October 16, 2016.</ref>

In an April 1988 interview with [[Connie Chung]], when discussing an Indiana basketball game in which he felt the referees were making poor calls against the Hoosiers, Knight said, "I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it." In response, women's groups nationwide were outraged by Knight's comments.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 14, 2006 |title=Bob Knight's outburst timeline |work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/big12/2006-11-14-knight-timeline_x.htm |url-status=live |access-date=April 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925030044/http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/big12/2006-11-14-knight-timeline_x.htm |archive-date=September 25, 2009}}</ref>