Bobby Collins
Bobby Collins (born October 30, 1965)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Shaw University Bears
Current conference: Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA)
Hampton record: 65-57 (.533)
Winston-Salem State record^: 115-110 (.511)
Maryland Eastern Shore record: 49-82 (.374)
Shaw University record^: 10-11 (.476)
Overall record^: 239-260 (.479)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2006)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- CIT Appearances: 1 (2015)
- CIAA (Div II) Regular Season Champion: 0
- MEAC Tournament Champion: 1 (2006)
- CIAA (Div II) Tournament Champion: 1 (2012)
- NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances: 2 (2012, 2013)
Awards:
- Ben Jobe Award: 1 (2015)
- MEAC Coach of the Year: 2 (2005, 2015)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2020-present | Shaw University |
| 2018-2020 | South Carolina State (asst) |
| 2014-2018 | Maryland Eastern Shore |
| 2006-2014 | Winston-Salem State |
| 2002-2006 | Hampton |
| 1995-2002 | Hampton (asst) |
| 1994-1995 | Old Dominion (asst) |
Bobby Collins Facts
- Bobby Lee Collins
- Born October 30, 1965
- Hometown: Southern Pines, North Carolina
- Alma Mater: Eastern Kentucky University (BA, 1991)
- Played at EKU under head coaches Max Good and Mike Pollio, earning All-OVC Honorable Mention as a senior in 1991
- Spent one season playing professionally in Finland before returning to his alma mater to work as an admissions assistant
- Started his coaching career in 1994, serving as an assistant under Jeff Capel II at Old Dominion for one season
- Arrived at Hampton in 1995, working as an assistant under Byron Samuels for two seasons and then under Steve Merfeld for five
- Took over as head coach of the Pirates in 2002, leading the team for four seasons
- Reached the NCAA Tournament in 2006 by way of a MEAC Tournament title
- Left Hampton for Winston-Salem State in 2006, then in the process of transitioning from Division II to Division I
- After one season as a transitional D-I program, the school decided to move back to D-II and later re-joined the CIAA
- Collins went 115-110 overall during his eight-year tenure as the Rams’ head coach
- Returned to Division I in 2014 when he was hired as the head coach at Maryland Eastern Shore
- Went to the 2015 CIT in his first year but was just 31-67 over the next four, leading to his dismissal in March 2018
- Worked as an assistant on Murray Garvin‘s staff at South Carolina State for two seasons
- In March 2020 when he was hired as head coach at Shaw University (NC), however the 2020-21 season was cancelled
- Went 10-11 (6-8 CIAA) in his first full season a the helm (2021-22)
Bobby Collins Coaching Tree
- Dwayne Killings (Albany)
- Clifford Reed (Maryland Eastern Shore)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at both the NCAA Division I and Division II levels
