Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four teams in the NCAA finals this weekend doesn't really belong there. The Indiana Hoosiers, coached by the brilliant Bobby Knight, are not one of the four best teams in the nation on paper. In fact, when I saw them play at the beginning of the season, I figured they would be somewhere in the middle...
...reason the Hoosiers are playing UCLA this Saturday is that they have one of the finest man-to-man defenses in the country. Coach Knight spends 80 per cent of his practices working on defensive fundamentals, and from all indications his players have learned well. Indiana's strong defense allows them to stay with teams with far superior material, even if the Hoosiers shooting is off range on a particular evening...
...point of all this is not that Harvard should try and steal Knight away from Indiana, but that the Department of Athletics should hire a defensively oriented coach. Knight could never fit in here. His boisterous, cantankerous, flamboyant style would clash with sedate, apathetic Harvard. However, his coaching philosophy is desperately needed. There is tremendous individual talent on the Crimson basketball team, but it needs to be blended together. The Harvard cagers' man-to-man defense has been pitifully weak for most of the last three seasons, causing the Crimson to lose a number of games they should have...
Teaching team defense is a particularly difficult task, and it often takes a coach a good two or three years to get his ballplayers playing the way he wants them to. However, Knight took an erratic Indiana squad and despite the loss of star forward George McGinnis built a 17-8 NIT team last year and an NCAA finalist this season, employing a healthy does of inexperienced sophomores and freshmen...
Wesley's oral biography traced and highlighted events in the life of the "pioneer in the rescue of black people..., the literary knight with a plumed pen" when Du Bois was one of only two blacks attending Harvard in the late...