Lubbock, Texas ? Texas Tech basketball coach Bob Knight said Monday he would not accept his $250,000 base salary for the 2002-03 season because his Red Raiders had not “played as well as we should have played.”

Athletic director Gerald Myers said Knight was being too hard on himself and urged the 62-year-old Hall of Famer to reconsider.

“But his mind is made up,” Myers said. “He’s got high expectations, and he feels this is the right thing to do.”

The Red Raiders, seeded seventh in this week’s Big 12 Conference tournament in Dallas, finished the regular season 16-11 and went 6-10 in conference play. This comes one year after Tech finished 23-9 and reached the NCAA Tournament.

“I just feel like I had a product, and it broke,” Knight said by phone from Lubbock. “You shouldn’t have to pay for it. That’s all I think.”

Above, Knight yells at official Eddie Jackson during Tech’s game Saturday against Baylor in Waco, Texas.