As someone who covered Bob Knight’s tumultuous last two seasons at Indiana University, I was fortunate enough to speak with John Feinstein a few times. He once told me that people often asked him if he hated Knight.

Feinstein wrote “A Season on the Brink” in 1986, a book chronicling the 1985-86 Indiana men’s basketball season coached by Bob Knight. The Hoosiers, led by Steve Alford, finished 21-8 and second in the Big Ten standings.

John Feinstein, author of the bestselling book “A Season on the Brink” about college basketball coach Bob Knight, died unexpectedly Thursday.