NickRobinson

Robinson comes to Lexington after serving as an assistant coach at BYU from 2019-2024. Working alongside Pope at BYU, the Cougars amounted a 110-51 record during Robinson’s time in Provo, Utah, making two NCAA Tournament appearances, including one as a No. 6 seed this past March.

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 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. 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.

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.