Report: ESPN won't renew its contract with Bob Knight
Bob Knight reportedly won’t return to ESPN as a college basketball analyst next season.
According to Sports Illustrated, the network “will not renew its contract” with Knight, whose final broadcast with the network will be the NIT championship game between Stanford and Miami at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night at 8 p.m. ET.
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Knight, the Hall of Fame head coach at Army, Indiana and Texas Tech, originally joined ESPN after his retirement from TTU in 2008.
He has served as an in-game color analyst and has also appeared as an in-studio analyst on various ESPN programs. He’s had his share of interesting moments during his time as a broadcaster.
In February, the 74-year-old Knight began screaming at someone while live on the air to move out of his view during a SMU-Temple game in Dallas.
Knight also had a head-scratching moment during a 2013 Kentucky-Vanderbilt game where he inexplicably could not understand the difference between the shot clock and game clock. A year earlier, Knight decided not to say “Kentucky” on the air, instead referring to the Wildcats as the “team from the SEC.”
Knight previously worked as one of ESPN’s lead color analysts for SEC and Big 12 games, but most recently called American Athletic Conference games with Mike Patrick this season.
An ESPN spokesman declined to comment on SI’s report.
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