The highest court in Indiana has declined to hear an appeal of a lawsuit seeking to reverse the firing of Bob Knight, the former Indiana University men’s basketball coach, the Associated Press reported.
The suit was brought by 46 fans who argued that Indiana’s trustees had violated the state’s open-meetings law in 2000, when they held closed-door meetings to discuss the coach’s fate. The trustees fired the coach days after the meetings (The Chronicle, September 22, 2000).
Two lower courts had previously ruled that the suit had no merit (The Chronicle, June 5).
Mr. Knight is now the coach at Texas Tech University. He is 11 wins shy of overtaking the former University of North Carolina coach Dean Smith as the winningest men’s coach in major-college basketball.
