Craig Robinson

Craig Robinson (born April 21, 1962)

Teams coached: Brown Bears, Oregon State Beavers
Brown record: 30-28 (.517)
Oregon State record: 94-105 (.472)
Overall record: 124-133 (.482)

Career Accomplishments:

• NCAA National Championships:  0
• NCAA Tournament Appearances:  0
• NIT Championships:  0
• NIT Appearances:  0
• CBI Championships:  1  (2009)
• CBI Appearances:  5  (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014)

Awards:

• Ivy League Player of the Year:  2  (1982, 1983)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

Craig Robinson Facts

• Craig Malcolm Robinson
• Born April 21, 1962
• Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
• Alma Mater: Princeton University (BA, 1983) / University of Chicago (MBA, 1992)
• Grew up on Chicago’s South Shore, where he was valedictorian at Mount Carmel HS
  • His younger sister is former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama, making Robinson the brother-in-law of Former President of the United States Barack Obama
• Played at Princeton for legendary head coach Pete Carril; twice named Ivy League POY
  • Was encouraged by Carril to pursue business after a brief professional career
  • Got his MBA from UChicago and worked in finance and banking industries
  • Coached the University of Chicago Lab School (HS) team for one season and was an assistant at Illinois Institute of Technology for two years
• Started his college coaching career in 2000, working on fellow Carril disciple Bill Carmody‘s staff at Northwestern for six years
• Spent two seasons as the head coach at Brown, improving the Bears team from 10-17 before he arrived to 19-10 and a CBI berth by his second year
• Hired by Oregon State in April 2008, taking over a team that went 6-25 (0-18) in 2007-08
  • Went 18-18 and won the 2009 CBI Championship in his first season
  • Led the Beavers to four CBI appearances in six years, but never finished higher than 5th in the Pac-12 standings
  • Fired from his position in May 2014, receiving a $4 million buyout for the remainder of his contract
• Worked at ESPN as a college basketball analyst for the 2014-15 season
• Spent one year in the Milwaukee Bucks front office and then spent three years in the New York Knicks front office as VP of Player/Organization Development
• In July 2020, the NABC announced that Robinson was succeed Jim Haney as the organization’s Executive Director
• Along with his wife, Kelly, has two sons, as well as a son and daughter from a previous marriage

Craig Robinson Coaching Tree

• Jess Agel (Brown)
• Freddie Owens (Green Bay)