Knight My Story

The phenomenal New York Times bestseller-now with an all-new update 2002 was a year of vindication for coach Bob Knight. His Texas Tech team overachieved, he returned in triumph to the national spotlight, and he told the unvarnished truth about his career in this national bestseller. Now in 2003, Texas Tech is expected to go all the way, and Coach Knight has provided an all-new update about the past year for the paperback publication. In college basketball, the name Bobby Knight is synonymous with greatness and winning. This book focuses on Coach Knight's extraordinary basketball career, addressing both the public triumphs and the highly publicized controversies. It begins with the most public and painful event of his life: his front-page dismissal as Indiana University's basketball coach in 2000 after twenty-nine years in that position. But the story of Bobby Knight is so much more than controversy. Above all, it is a story about one man's tremendous success. How did he become the youngest coach in NCAA history? How did he build a dynasty in Indiana? What principles does he live by-and coach by-that keep the best players coming to play for him? For the first time, Coach Knight reveals everything.

Bobby Knight has proven over and over again that he is the finest basketball coach in America. No other coach can cite NCAA and NIT championships, and Olympic and Pan American gold medals among his achievements. He is one of only thirteen coaches in college basketball history to record 700 or more victories. His coaching achievements were honored in May of 1991, when he was inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame. He currently coaches Texas Tech.

Bob Hammel was sports editor of the Bloomington Herald-Times for thirty years before he retired following the 1996 Olympics. He is the author of nine previous books, six of which were on Indiana basketball.