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Bobby Knight has thrown his support behind Donald Trump ahead of Indiana's Tuesday primary. (AP) Bobby Knight: Cruz's basketball gaffe shows his incompetence

Legendary Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight laced into Ted Cruz's mistaken pronouncement of a basketball hoop as a "ring" at a rally in his state earlier this week.

Knight, who has thrown his support behind Donald Trump ahead of Indiana's Tuesday primary, appeared alongside the Republican front-runner in an interview with "Fox & Friends" taped before their Evansville rally on Thursday and aired Friday morning.

Asked by Fox News' Brian Kilmeade if he had ever heard someone, like Cruz, call a basketball hoop a "ring," Knight chuckled.

"Well, I don't think I have," Knight said, slapping a hand on Trump's left shoulder. "A guy that would come into this state and think that we played with rings instead of baskets is not a guy that’s very well prepared to do a whole hell of a lot."