Men's Basketball Coach Glenn Robinson to be Featured on January 17 Hoopsville Talk Show

by Sports Information
1/16/06

LANCASTER, PA – Franklin & Marshall College head men’s basketball coach Glenn Robinson will be featured on D3hoops.com’s weekly talk show, Hoopsville, on January 17.

The show will begin at 8:11 p.m. and is available online at www.goucher.edu/radio. Listeners will need Quicktime Player, available online at www.apple.com/quicktime/download, to play the broadcast.

The head coach of the Diplomats for 35 years since taking over the program prior to the 1971-72 season and the all-time wins leader in NCAA Division III history with a 704-250 mark in 34+ seasons, Robinson became the 25th member of the 700 wins club and only the 10th active member joining Bobby Knight (Texas Tech), Don Meyer (Northern State), Herb Magee (Philadelphia), Eddie Sutton (Oklahoma State), Lute Olson (Arizona), John Chaney (Temple), Mike Krzyzewski (Duke), Jim Boeheim (Syracuse) and Jim Calhoun (Connecticut) with a 77-65 win over Swarthmore College at home in the Mayser Center on November 27, 2005.

A 1967 graduate of West Chester University, Robinson reset the NCAA Division III basketball wins record of former Illinois Wesleyan coach Dennie Bridges on February 14, 2004 with a 75-52 win over Muhlenberg College in the Mayser Center.

Historically, Robinson guided the Diplomats to the Division III Final Four in 1979, 1991, 1996 and 2000 and was named the Basketball Times Division III "Coach of the Year" in 1991. He has earned conference and National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) regional "Coach of the Year" honors 12 times, including the 2004 award for guiding the Diplomats to a 26-4 record, the Centennial Conference title and an NCAA Elite Eight berth.

Part of his success has been the personnel with which he has had to work as Will Lasky (1991 honorable mention, 1992 first team), Donnie Marsh (1977 & 1979 second team), Jeremiah Henry (1996 first team), Dave Jannetta (1994 honorable mention, 1995 third team), Brad Markey (1989 second team), Dennis Westley (1981 second team), Terry Scott (1988 third team), Phil Hoeker (1989 honorable mention), Chris Finch (1991 & 1992 honorable mention), Charlie Detz (1994 & 1995 honorable mention), Mike Mehaffey (1996 honorable mention), Alex Kraft (2000 first team, 2001 honorable mention), Duran Searles (2004 honorable mention) and Steve Justin (2004 honorable mention) all earned All-America honors under Robinson.

D3Hoops.com is widely considered the preeminent source of information on Division III basketball in the electronic medium. D3hoops has appeared in Sports Illustrated, ESPN Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Hartford Courant and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, among other publications.