NickRobinson

A former student-athlete at Stanford with more than 20 years of college basketball experience and a combined eight NCAA Tournament appearances as a player and coach, Nick Robinson was hired as the Kentucky men’s basketball director of operations in June of 2024.

In his most recent role before coming to Lexington, Robinson worked alongside Mark Pope as an assistant coach at BYU from 2019-2024. During this time, the Cougars amounted a 110-51 record making two NCAA Tournament appearances, including one as a No. 6 seed this past March. The team finished fifth in the Big 12 in 2023-24, its first season in the conference, after being picked to finish 13th in the preseason poll. The successful campaign included a program-record four wins over ranked opponents, highlighted by a road win at No. 7 Kansas.

Before his arrival in Provo, Robinson was an assistant coach at Seattle from 2017-19 and the head coach at Southern Utah from 2012-16. He helped Seattle to back-to-back winning seasons in 2017-18 and 2018-19, the first time such had occurred since the 1968-69 and 1969-70 seasons. While serving as the head coach at Southern Utah, Robinson’s student-athletes collected two All-Big Sky selections, 20 Big Sky Academic All-Conference honors, five NABC Honors Court selections and one NABC Academic Excellence Team Award. Before arriving at Southern Utah, Robinson spent three seasons in the Southeastern Conference at LSU where he served in a variety of roles including assistant coach, director of basketball operations and executive assistant to the head coach. While with the Tigers, Robinson was involved with the development of a pair of NBA draft picks – Justin Hamilton and Johnny O’Bryant III.  Prior to that, Robinson was an assistant coach at William Jewell College in 2008-09 and both an assistant coach and director of operations at his alma mater, Stanford, from 2006-08. With the Cardinal, Robinson reached the Sweet 16 in the 2008 NCAA Tournament and helped coach three future NBA players – Brook Lopez, Robin Lopez and Landry Fields.

Robinson played college basketball in Palo Alto from 2001-05, helping the Cardinal to a 92-34 record, Pac-10 regular-season and tournament championships and four NCAA Tournament appearances. His legacy includes hitting one of the most famous shots in Stanford program history when he connected on a running 35-footer at the buzzer to send the No. 2 Cardinal past No. 12 Arizona in 2004. He graduated from Stanford with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s in sociology.

Robinson and his wife Meagan have four children: Annie, Tate, Toby and Elise.