COLLEGE BASKETBALL : DAILY REPORT : Big Ten Disciplines Knight, Henson

Indiana Coach Bob Knight and Illinois Coach Lou Henson were reprimanded and censured Wednesday by the Big Ten Conference for their verbal spat after a game Sunday in Champaign, Ill.

Conference commissioner Jim Delany said the coaches violated a league regulation on conduct after Indiana’s 70-58 victory.

“Coach Henson’s negative characterization of Coach Knight and Coach Knight’s sarcastic characterization of the Illinois basketball program constitute violations of conference policy,” Delany said in a statement. The Big Ten did not reveal what the reprimands or censures entail.

After the game Henson and Knight traded words in an exchange punctuated with profanity from Knight, according to witnesses.

At a postgame news conference, Knight launched into a sarcastic, 10-minute monologue on Illinois’ ban from postseason play for NCAA recruiting violations.

Henson called Knight a “classic bully” and said he asked him to “step outside.” TODAY’S NCAA GAMES

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