Sport: College Basketball's Knight-Errant

The championship is back home again in Indiana

If Bobby Knight had played a little more at Ohio State 25 years ago, college basketball might be a little seemlier today. By expert accounts, he was a better player than many people remember, though not as good as he thought. The trouble was, his college teammates in 1960 included John Havlicek, Jerry Lucas and Larry Siegfried, who went on in the pros to amass 14 championship rings. Knight began on the bench, and is still on the bench. His space in the Hall of Fame has been fashioned out of pine.

In order to start coaching at West Point, he...

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