![]() ![]() At the time there were only 10 teams in the Big Ten (how novel) and Knight lamented the fact that a tournament might interrupt the ability of the league to play a true round-robin schedule where every team plays a home and away series with every other team in the conference each year. One of Knight’s main objections was the impact on the schedule. Times article he said that “they’ll eventually get it through”, speaking of the Big Ten coaches and administrators that were in favor of the tournament. There is no doubt that Knight was always unambiguously opposed to the concept of a Big Ten tournament.īack in 1987, when he was at the pinnacle of his career, and perhaps the pinnacle of his influence, Knight knew the tournament was inevitable. There have been suggestions that perhaps Indiana’s ineptitude in the tournament can be attributed to a Bob Knight curse. Today we go back to the very beginning, to a legendary coach that didn’t want to see it happen and then nearly wasn’t allowed to coach in the first game.
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