How Don Knuth's computer skills helped his college basketball team

Reminds me a little bit about this article on Shane Battier: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html?_r=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html?...</a><p>It goes into how Battier gets to see the charts and statistics for the players on the opposing team, so that he'll have better odds when defending against their jump shots.

best part:<p>fed to an ibm computer, capable of making 50k calculations per _minute_

<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1671519" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1671519</a>

I think nowadays such analysis plays a big part in sports. For example when Germany's football team beat Argentina in this year's World Cup I couldn't help but think that the German coach knows something the other coach (legendary Diego Maradona) doesn't.

Jerry Lucas used his own memory system and his personal collection of data on opponents to his advantage during his extremely successful basketball career.<p>The video at the following link discusses it briefly. At the moment I can't find any more detailed discussion of it.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6yf3qaT4A" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6yf3qaT4A</a>

Is the K in Knuth supposed to be pronounced?

Knuth seems very tall. I wonder if he plays basketball as a hobby.