Nick Robinson (BYU Cougars) - Coaches Database

Nick Robinson

Current position: Assistant men’s basketball coach
Current team: BYU Cougars (Head coach: Mark Pope)
Current conference: West Coast Conference (WCC)
Teams coached: Southern Utah Thunderbirds
Southern Utah record: 29-90 (.244)
Overall record: 29-90 (.244)

Nicholas Stromberg Robinson
Born November 2, 1979
Hometown: Liberty, Missouri
Alma Mater: Stanford University (BS & MS, 2005)
Graduated from Liberty HS (MO) and then spent two years on a LDS mission in Brazil before starting college
- Played basketball for four seasons at Stanford, three for head coach Mike Montgomery and one for Trent Johnson
- Served as team captain in both his junior and senior seasons; played in four NCAA Tournaments
Started out his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Rio Rancho HS (NM) before getting back into the college game
Spent two years on Johnson‘s staff back at Stanford, one each as director of basketball operations and as an assistant coach
- Was an assistant for one season under Larry Holley at D-II William Jewell in his hometown of Liberty, MO
Reunited with Johnson, then the head coach at LSU, in 2009 and became assistant to the head coach
- Elevated to DBO the following year and then assistant coach the year after that, spending three seasons with the program
Hired as the head coach at Southern Utah in 2012, serving in that capacity for four seasons
- Went just 29-90 at the helm, finishing under .500 each year with two 24+ loss records, and was fired in March 2016
After a year away, Robinson joined the staff at Seattle as an assistant under new head coach Jim Hayford
In 2019, he was hired by Mark Pope to be an assistant coach at BYU; has been a part of one NCAA Tournament and one NIT at BYU