Tim and Pat Knight are the two boys that Bob Knight had with Nancy Falk, his first wife. It is said that on November 1, 2023, in Bloomington, Indiana, their father, Robert Montgomery Knight, an extremely well-known American men’s collegiate basketball coach, passed away at the age of 83.
Who is Bobby Knight?
Robert Montgomery Knight, also known as “the General,” was a highly renowned American men’s collegiate basketball coach who had a lasting impact on the sport.
Knight’s career was highlighted by a remarkable accomplishment: he won 902 games as an NCAA Division I men’s basketball coach, a statistic that remained a record until his retirement and still puts him seventh all-time in coaching victories.
On April 17, 1963, Knight married the former Nancy Falk. Tim and Pat, their two sons, were born, but the couple separated in 1985.
Tim and Pat Knight are the two boys that Bob Knight had with Nancy Falk, his first wife. Following in their father’s footsteps, Tim and Pat Knight went on to become successful college basketball coaches.
Both of them have benefited from their father’s rigorous teaching methods and astute basketball observations.
Knight married Karen Vieth Edgar, a former high school basketball coach in Oklahoma, as his second wife in 1988.
Knight was born in the Ohio town of Massillon in 1940. His early years were spent in Orrville, Ohio, where his love of basketball was first ignited.
His mother, Hazel, was a devoted teacher who instilled in him ideals that would later form his coaching style. His father, Pat, was employed by the railway.
At Orrville High School, Knight put on his first pair of trainers and started down a path that would eventually make him one of the most well-known and revered players in the history of the game.
Meet Tim Knight
Tim Knight was born in 1964 and played basketball for his father at Indiana from 1983 to 1987. He is the first of the two sons. He was a two-time All-Big Ten Conference selection and helped the Hoosiers win the 1987 NCAA championship.
After his playing career ended, Tim worked as an assistant coach for his father at Indiana and Texas Tech. He is currently the head coach at Lamar University.
Meet His secondborn, Pat Knight
A well-known figure in American basketball history, Patrick Clair Knight is renowned for his abilities as a coach and scout.
He became the West Coast Region college scout for the Indiana Pacers on July 1, 2014. Prior to this, he had a distinguished coaching career.
He was the men’s basketball head coach at Texas Tech Red Raiders and the basketball head coach of the Lamar Cardinals.
Beyond coaching, Knight is involved in the basketball world. With a lot of experience working with a variety of teams in the NBA, USBL, IBL, NCAA, and CBA, he has held a variety of coaching, administrative, and scouting positions.
After his father’s retirement in 1991, Pat was head coach at Lamar until his dismissal in 2014. He also played for Indiana from 1991 to 1995. Following his father’s retirement, Pat Knight coached Texas Tech before relocating to Lamar.
Being the son of the renowned Bob Knight, a Basketball Hall of Fame member, Patrick Clair Knight has a notable basketball lineage. In 2008, he even followed in the footsteps of a coaching icon by succeeding his father as the 13th head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
