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Men's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- srobo@uncaa.unc.edu
- Phone:
- 919-962-1154
A former college head coach and a Hall-of-Fame assistant, Steve Robinson is in his 18th year at Carolina and his 26th on Roy Williams’ staff.
As Williams’ top assistant, Robinson’s primary responsibilities include scouting, recruiting and bench coaching. He helped recruit numerous future NBA players, including Nassir Little, Harrison Barnes, Danny Green, John Henson, Ed Davis, Marvin Williams, Brandan Wright and Paul Pierce to Carolina and Kansas.
Robinson works daily with the Tar Heel perimeter players, mentoring Cousy Award-winning point guards Raymond Felton, Ty Lawson and Kendall Marshall, as well as 2017 Final Four MVP Joel Berry II.
In 2019, Robinson was inducted into the A Step Above Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame.
Robinson is the second-longest-tenured assistant in UNC history behind only Bill Guthridge (30 years).
He has been named one of the top-25 recruiters in college basketball four times since coming to Carolina. Fox Sports has named him one of the top five high-major assistant coaches in all of college basketball.
Robinson was head coach at Tulsa for two years and at Florida State for five years. As head coach at Florida State, he led the Seminoles to the second round of the 1998 NCAA Tournament. Robinson was head coach at Tulsa in 1995-96 and 1996-97. He led the Golden Hurricane to a 46-18 record and back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
Robinson was an assistant at Kansas from 1988-95 and in 2002-03. Before joining Williams in 1988, Robinson spent two years as an assistant coach at Cornell and three seasons at his alma mater, Radford.
A native of Roanoke, Va., Robinson graduated from William Fleming High School and Ferrum Junior College, where he played basketball for two seasons. He was team captain at Radford in 1979 and 1980. While at Radford, he earned his bachelor’s degree in health and physical education in 1981 and his master’s degree in counseling in 1985.
He is a member of the Ferrum Junior College and Radford University Halls of Fame and will be inducted into the William Fleming HS Hall of Fame in December 2019. He serves on the Board of Visitors at Radford.
Robinson and his wife, Lisa, have four children – daughters Shauna and Kiaya and sons Tarron and Denzel. Tarron is married to the former Kathryn Small, and the couple has a daughter, Chloe. Denzel played two seasons for the Tar Heels and graduated in 2014.
