Important moments in Bob Knight's career - ESPN

There are only three men's college basketball coaches who have won more games than Bob Knight (902) — Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim and Roy Williams — but none of them did the job with more flair, personality and polarity. Knight, who died Wednesday at age 83, was both a mythical figure who revolutionized the game with his motion offense and an emotional wellspring who never hid how he felt, sometimes at his own expense. His stamp on the game is undeniable.

Knight is considered one of the greatest coaches of all time, and his list of achievements and challenges proves as much: In three decades at Indiana, Knight won three national titles and coached the Hoosiers to five Final Fours and 11 Big Ten titles. He also won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics. He won the Associated Press Coach of the Year award three times (1975, 1976 and 1989) and was also named Big Ten Coach of the Year eight times (1973, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1989, 1992 and 1993). He was one of the inductees in the first National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame class in 2006, the year the museum opened. And, he coached — and then hired — Krzyzewski at Army, kick-starting the career of the winningest coach in Division I history.

Knight's legacy is also filled with controversies that made him a polarizing figure.

Here is a look at some of the important moments in Knight's career.

Knight is one of just three people in NCAA history — joining Larry Brown and Joe B. Hall — to win a national championship as a player and a coach. Knight was a member of the 1960 Ohio State team, led by future Hall of Famers Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek, that won the national championship that year. The Buckeyes went on to make it to but lose the next two NCAA title games.

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