Craig Robinson (basketball coach)

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Craig Robinson

Title Head coach
College Oregon State
Sport Basketball
Team record 0-0 (.000)
Born April 21, 1962 (1962-04-21) (age 46)
Place of birth Chicago, Illinois
Career highlights
Playing career
1979–1983 Princeton
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1988–1990
1999–2000
2000–2006
2006–2008
2008–present		 IIT (asst.)
Chicago Laboratory Schools
Northwestern (asst.)
Brown
Oregon State

Craig Robinson (born April 21, 1962) is the head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University, and the older brother of Michelle Obama, the wife of United States Senator Barack Obama.[1] He is married with two children.[2]

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[edit] Playing career

Robinson was a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year at Princeton University, graduating in 1983 with an AB in Sociology. He is the fourth highest scorer in school history. He earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1992.

Robinson was drafted in the fourth round of the 1983 NBA draft, but never played in the league. He played professionally in Europe, returning to the U.S. in 1988 to became an assistant coach at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

[edit] Business career

He gave up basketball for the decade, going into banking. He worked in the early 1990s as a bond trader at Continental Bank, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and Loop Capital Markets.[3]

[edit] Coaching career

Robinson returned to coaching in 1999. An assistant for six years at Northwestern University, he became a head coach at Brown University in 2006, where he ran a variation of the Princeton offense which he learned from Pete Carril during his years at Princeton University. He was named the Ivy League "Coach of the Year" for the 2006-2007 season by Basketball-U.[citation needed]

On April 7, 2008, Robinson was hired as the Oregon State Beavers' new head basketball coach.[2]

On June 10, 2008, it was announced that Jesse Agel, Robinson's assistant of two years at Brown University, would be taking over the position.

[edit] Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Brown (Ivy League) (2006 — 2008)
2006–2007 Brown 11-18 6-8 5th
2007–2008 Brown 19-10 11-3 2nd
Brown: 30-28 17-11
Total: 30-28

      National Champion         Conference Champion         Conference Tournament Champion


[edit] References

  1. ^ Tucker, Eric. "Family ties: Brown coach, Barack Obama", Boston.com, 2007-03-01. Retrieved on 2008-04-08. 
  2. ^ a b Craig Robinson Era Begins at Oregon State. OSUBeavers.com (April 7, 2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-07.
  3. ^ Carney, John (2008-06-03). "Bond Trader Tapped To Coach Oregon State Basketball". Dealbreaker. Dead Horse Media. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.

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