It began with a jump-ball.
Steve Alford, formerly a scrappy guard on Bobby Knight’s 1984-85 Indiana Hoosiers, complained about the call and looked for the approval of his coach.
Knight began to raise his voice and pace along the sideline.
Within two seconds of inbounding the basketball, Darryl Thomas gets called for a ticky-tack hand-checking call.
Some more bickering. Heads shake. The crowd boos.
Then it happened. Knight, furious at the officiating, lifted and hurled his blood-red chair across the court, sliding just inches from a woman sitting in a wheelchair. Throwing the chair wasn’t enough for Knight, who confronted the officials and scolded them with a bony, outstretched index finger.