There is an iconic photograph of Bob Knight in his early-1980s peak, slumped in a chair and shoeless, sipping water inside the Assembly Hall locker room before tipoff. A sign hangs a few feet away, its words emblematic of Knight’s Indiana basketball machine.
“Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.”
It was a creed Knight held to his core. If he shouted this at his players once, he shouted it at them a thousand times. It became a staple to his success, as imperative as his trusty motion offense or the Hoosiers’ stifling man-to-man defense. Knight’s teams, above all, were a reflection of those eight words.