Mike Woodson says he sat in Bob Knight's thrown chair in Indiana's upset over Purdue

On the 40th anniversary of Bob Knight's infamous chair toss against Purdue, Mike Woodson arrived Sunday at Assembly Hall ready to honor his late mentor.

So the outgoing Indiana coach brought his own red plastic chair, placed it on the floor between the Hoosiers' metal folding chairs that are still tethered together, and used it during the rivalry game against the No. 13 Boilermakers.

Then Woodson added yet another twist to a question that has mystified Indiana fans for four decades: Where is the chair Knight tossed across the court in anger on Feb. 23, 1985?

"You realize that is ‘the chair,'" Woodson said after Indiana's 73-58 victory. "I've had it a while. A lot of people say they have the chair but Scott Greer, the tennis coach here many years ago, he was the only one thinking out of the box that night when Coach Knight threw that chair. That morning he got up and came to Assembly Hall and got the chair and got (track coach) Sam Bell and Coach Knight and all to sign off on it, took pictures with it."

Woodson's story seems as plausible as any other, though verifying it would be difficult. Bell died in June 2016, Greer died in July 2022 and Knight died in November 2023.

But the incident has hardly been forgotten. Replays still get millions of views online, and tales of the time a furious Bob Knight threw a chair across the court still make the rounds routinely in sports circles.

How did it happen?

Five minutes into a game against the rival Boilermakers, Knight let the referees know he disagreed with a foul call and drew the first of three technical fouls during the sequence.

Knight then turned around, grabbed his plastic chair and hurled it past Purdue guard Steve Reid, who was standing at the free-throw line, and into a