Robert Montgomery Knight Court at Assembly Hall.

Or maybe Bobby Knight Court at Assembly Hall, that has more of a ring to it.

Whatever it would be called Indiana University needs to do what many other great basketball universities have done and pay homage to the man who made the program. North Carolina has the Dean E. Smith Center, Kentucky plays in Rupp Arena, and living legend Mike Krzyzewski watches his players hustle on Coach K Court.

Knight helped to open Assembly Hall in 1972 and soon thereafter took the Hoosiers to national prominence. During and since Knight's tenure at Indiana, the Hoosiers have been college basketball royalty. His three NCAA championships and 661 wins at Indiana are more than enough to warrant his status as a legend. He is well on his way to passing Dean Smith as college basketball's all-time winningest coach. He stands just 60 wins behind Smith's 879 and barring any health problems he should be able to crack 1,000 wins in his lifetime considering he is just 63 years old.

To put his immense amount of wins in perspective Mike Krzyzewski, who many consider today's top coach, has 677 wins and another one of today's top coaches Tubby Smith of Kentucky just reached 300 on Tuesday night.

The problem with Indiana honoring its greatest coach is that his well-publicized firing by then Indiana President Myles Brand and the IU Board of Trustees more than obliterated the relationship between Knight and Indiana. Even if Indiana and Knight were to put their differences, lawsuits and other matters aside there is no guarantee that Knight would agree to the naming. It would be out of respect for Texas Tech if he was still coaching there and declined. But, even in leaving Bloomington, Knight has always shown his appreciation of the IU fans. That is who this court would be named for --the fans. IU and college basketball fans alike. That is why I think at some point Knight would agree to it.

At Texas Tech, he has already shown that he can be a success anywhere he goes, compiling a 56-23 record in two and a half seasons with the Red Raiders. If he coaches a total of 10 seasons at Texas Tech, which would make him about 70 years old, he could reach legendary status in Lubbock.

Which means we could have Bobby Knight Court at United Spirit Arena.

But, it just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Silver Anniversary

Throughout this week ESPN, in conjunction with their 25th year of televising men's college basketball, has been naming all-time teams for each of the conferences they regularly televise.

The concept has been heavily advertised and has been pretty interesting. At press time the all-time ACC team had yet to be revealed, but that team has been the one most argued over. With such superstars as Len Bias, Grant Hill, Christian Laettner, Antawn Jamison, Shane Battier and Danny Ferry at forward and only two spots available it should be exciting to see who makes it.

I've only had one major complaint with ESPN's panel of expert picks thus far. And that comes in the SEC where they selected Chuck Person and Jamal Mashburn as the forwards. Mashburn certainly deserves to make it but to take Person over Charles Barkley is wrong. Barkley averaged five points less per game than Person, but he also averaged two more rebounds and almost a block and a half more per contest.

Barkley's shooting percentage of 62.6 percent was nine points higher than Person. The most telling stat to me is that Person averaged 15 shots per game, while Barkley shot the ball about 8.5 times per game.

Now I know why Chuck Person got the nickname "The Rifleman."

Upset of the Week

Two picks again this week and they are both home teams. No. 6 Louisville travels to Tennessee, where the Vols are 9-1 at home and we aren't talking about Pat Summitt's Lady Vols. Buzz Peterson's Vols get the job done on Sunday.

Unfortunately for the Vols, their SEC companion Kentucky will fall on Sunday in South Bend at the hands of the Fighting Irish.

Last week: I went 1-1 with North Carolina beating the Huskies and UCLA coming up short against Arizona. Although my projection of Arizona's losing ways continuing came true as they lost to USC.