Eddie Robinson (2015) - Hall of Fame - University of Central Oklahoma Athletics

Hall of Fame

Eddie Robinson

Induction

2015
Sport(s)

Men's Basketball

A high-flying 6-foot-9 forward from Flint, Mich. Robinson spent two years at Brown Mackie (Kan.) College before coming to UCO. He was a two-year standout for the Bronchos in the late 1990s before becoming the only player in school history to compete in the National Basketball Association.

Robinson averaged 14.8 points and 7.4 rebounds a game as a junior in 1997-98 when he helped UCO go 25-7 in winning the Lone Star Conference title and making it to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Division II national tournament and followed with perhaps the best individual single-season performance in school history.

As a senior, Robinson led Division II in scoring with a 28.0 average while adding 9.5 rebounds and 2.2 blocked shots a game. He scored 40-plus points four times – capped by a school-record 52-point outburst against Southwestern Oklahoma – and was named the LSC North Division Player of the Year, a consensus first-team All-American and the Lone Star Conference Male Athlete of the Year.

Robinson signed as a free agent with the Charlotte Hornets two months after his senior season ended and spent two seasons there before going on to play three injury-plagued years with the Chicago Bulls. He averaged 7.0 points and 2.7 rebounds a game in a five-year NBA career that ended in 2004.

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