[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 182 (Friday, November 3, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H5395]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HONORING COACH BOB KNIGHT

  (Mrs. HOUCHIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of the 
General of IU basketball, the legendary Coach Bob Knight.
  Growing up in southern Indiana, there were three things that shaped 
my childhood: family, faith, and IU basketball.
  Any game day, TVs across our towns would play the game, and on the 
screen was Coach Bob Knight. During those games, my mom really only had 
two emotions: frustration, yelling, Come on, boys; or elation, 
celebrating game play.
  I was a student during Coach Knight's last year at IU, and I always 
said that you haven't really seen an IU game unless you were able to 
witness one that he had coached or had been kicked out of.
  Coach Knight's legacy was complex to say the least, but that didn't 
stop Hoosiers from loving him and through him the game of basketball. 
Boy, did he create champions on and off the court. He brought home 
three national championship banners to the walls of Assembly Hall and 
902 wins, more than any other coach in IU history.
  Under Coach Knight, IU basketball wasn't just a sport about wins and 
championships, it was a way of life.
  In his honor, today we remember what it means to be an IU Hoosier.

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