In the early 70s, we were in the Far West Classic in Portland and Indiana was one of the other teams in the tournament. It was early in Coach Knight's career. We had the last game that evening and Indiana played in the first game against BYU. Our coaches let us go to that game and it was amazing. These names won't mean anything to you younger guys, but the Indiana guards were Bobby Wilkerson and Quinn Buckner. The BYU guards would cross the mis court line and those 2 guards would shut them down. It was scary. Anyway, during the game, there was a loose ball headed toward the Indiana bench. Their freshman center was Kent Benson who was a highly recruited 6' 10 white kid. He goes diving for the ball and saves it but goes flying into the bench chair right next to Coach Knight. Coach gets up and starts yelling at the kid to get up and back onto the court.
The poor kid is trying to get up but his leg is stuck in the chair. He falls back down on the court trying to get his leg out and Coach Knight is still screaming at him to go play defense. The kid finally gets up and goes running down the court. Everyone is laughing except for that kid.
Some of you can act like assholes but there was never a shortage of kids that wanted to play for him at Indiana.