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Texas Tech chancellor Kent Hance walked into a convenience store in Lake Placid, N.Y., last summer, 1,658 miles from his campus. The clerk looked up, noticed the Texas Tech logo on Hance’s T-shirt and said: “Bobby Knight, Bobby Knight.”
“I don’t know that you can put a price on a lot of national exposure he’s brought to Texas Tech and Lubbock,” Hance said.
Knight gets his first shot at his 880th victory tonight (ESPN2, 7 p.m.), and a win at home against Nevada-Las Vegas would make him the winningest Division I men’s coach in history. For his part, the 66-year-old Knight has played down his march to overtake former North Carolina coach Dean Smith’s record of 879 wins.
