Bio
Les Robinson served as the head men's basketball coach and director of athletics at league schools The Citadel and ETSU during his illustrious career, earning SoCon Coach of the Year honors at each institution. Robinson combined for 213 wins at the schools, good for fifth in league history when he departed the SoCon and still in the top 10 nearly 30 years later.
A two-time South Carolina Coach of the Year, Robinson led The Citadel to its first 20-win in school history in 1978-79. At ETSU, Robinson guided the Bucs to SoCon tournament titles in 1989 and 1990 and a regular-season championship in 1989-90, when he was named the Tennessee Coach of the Year.
After spending his final four years at ETSU as the basketball coach and director of athletics, Robinson began a six-year run as the head coach at NC State, followed by four-year stint as the Wolfpack's AD.
In 2000, he returned to The Citadel, serving as the school's AD until retiring in 2008. Robinson, who served on both the NCAA Division I Basketball Committee and the NIT Selection Committee, was named the AstroTurf Southeast Region's Director of Athletics of the Year in 2007. He was inducted into ETSU's Hall of Fame in 2006 and The Citadel's Hall of Fame in 2012.