Mike Woodson’s tenure at Indiana hasn’t gone very nicely, however he’ll have at the least one factor in frequent with former Hoosiers head coach Bob Knight when he leaves this system on the finish of the season: Woodson is about to make use of the identical chair Knight infamously tossed 4 many years in the past in a house loss to Purdue.
Woodson discovered the chair, in keeping with the Indianapolis Star, and used it throughout Sunday’s sport in opposition to Purdue, 40 years to the day after Knight’s toss.
On the time, Knight obtained a technical foul for arguing with the referees over what the famously combative Knight thought have been too many fouls known as on his crew.
So when Purdue’s Steve Reid went to the road totally free throws on one other Hoosier foul, Knight grabbed a chair and ripped it from the bench earlier than tossing it on the courtroom.
He was ejected and finally made gentle of the incident to David Letterman, when he mentioned a lady in attendance reminded him of his grandmother.
“I said, ‘Did you want me for something?’” Knight joked. “And she just said, ‘If you’re not going to sit down any more today than you have so far, could I have your chair?’”
Since then, the chair’s location remained a thriller, as a number of individuals mentioned they’d it of their possession.
It was not recognized how Woodson, who performed at Indiana and beforehand coached the Knicks, bought the chair.
Below Woodson, Indiana was eradicated within the first spherical of the NCAA Match in 2022 and the second spherical in 2023.
The Hoosiers did not qualify for the match final yr and entered Sunday’s sport 15-11 with a 6-9 Huge Ten report, having misplaced eight of their earlier 10 video games.
