-Sentenced to 6 months in jail on September 10, 1979 for hitting a Puerto Rican officer before a July practice at the Pan American Games in which Knight was coaching the U. S. team (the Puerto Rican government dropped the case 8 years later and Knight never served any time)

-Got into an altercation with an LSU fan on March 28, 1981 after a 67-49 win in the Final Four in which Knight allegedly forced the fan into a garbage can (no charges were filed)

-Publicly reprimanded on February 16, 1983 while at Indiana for criticizing Big Ten officials and Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke

-Ejected and suspended for 1 game after he threw a chair onto the court at Assembly Hall while Purdue’s Steve Reid shot his technical free throws on February 23, 1985

-Given a technical foul for yelling at officials in a game against Illinois on January 25, 1986 (followed this with kicking a megaphone and yelling at Indiana cheerleaders for disrupting a free throw attempt by Indiana’s Steve Alford)

-Fined $10,000 and given a warning for hitting the scorer’s table after being given a technical foul during Indiana’s 77-76 win against LSU in the NCAA tournament on March 22, 1987

-Refused to let Indiana finish a November 22, 1987 exhibition game against the Soviet Union with 15:05 remaining and Indiana down 66-43 because he was ejected for arguing with referee Jim Burr (reprimanded by the university and later made an apology)

-Quoted on April 25, 1988 in an NBC interview with Connie Chung on the subject of stress as saying, “I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it” (around 300 people marched in protest on the Indiana campus as a result)

-Gained notoriety from Indiana NAACP when he pretended to use a whip on black G/F Calbert Cheaney during practice on May 25, 1992 (Cheaney defended Knight saying the whip was a gift from teammates)

-Took his son, Pat, out of a game on December 7, 1993 while at Indiana and appeared to kick him in the leg (Knight later said he kicked the chair his son was sitting in and not his leg)

-Inadvertently head-butted Indiana player Sherron Wilkerson during a timeout of their 78-94 loss to Michigan State on March 9, 1994

-Given a warning and fined $30,000 while at Indiana after he yelled at an NCAA tournament media liaison at a post-game news conference on March 17, 1995

-Given 3 technical fouls in a 72-82 loss to Illinois on February 24, 1998 and was ejected (Big Ten officials give Knight a choice between a $10,000 fine or a 1-game suspension, missing the first round of the NCAA tournament - he chose the fine)

-Investigated for battery after allegedly choking Christopher Foster in a restaurant after he heard Knight making racist remarks and confronted him on June 7, 1999 (no charges are filed against either man)

-Cited for failing to report an accident and hunting without a license on October 12, 1999 when he accidentally shot his friend, Thomas Mikunda, in the back and shoulder while hunting (the wounds were not life-threatening)

-Fined $30,000 and suspended for the first 3 games of the ‘00-‘01 season by Indiana president Myles Brand on May 15, 2000 after it became public that Knight allegedly choked former player Neil Reed during a 1997 practice

-Fired as Indiana basketball coach on September 9, 2000 for what Indiana president Myles Brand called a pattern of “unacceptable behavior”

-Got into a heated argument with Texas Tech chancellor David Smith at a Texas grocery store on February 2, 2004

-Had to be restrained by a police officer when a Baylor student was heckling him as he left the court following Texas Tech’s 77-66 loss to Baylor on March 1, 2006 (Big 12 officials decided not to discipline Knight)

-Could be seen on television hitting player Texas Tech player Michael Prince under the chin to get him to look at Knight during a game on November 13, 2006 (Prince, his parents, and Texas Tech athletic director Gerald Myers all let it be known that they believed what Knight did was just to get Prince’s attention and not a form of assault)