Ten days before the start of summer practices, the UTEP men’s basketball team completed its coaching staff with the addition of Mike Robertswho joins the Miners after two years in Cincinnati.
Roberts fills a coaching vacancy that opened later assistant principal Jeremy Cox left for Oklahoma last month. Roberts was at Cincinnati from 2021-23 and before that held full-time positions at his alma mater Indiana (2019-21), UNC Greensboro (2012-19), Rice (2008-12) and Cal (2007-08).
Roberts played at Indiana from 2000 to 2005, including finishing runner-up in the 2002 NCAA tournament.
“I am very excited to welcome Mike Roberts to Borderland as a member of our coaching staff,” said UTEP head coach Joe Golding. “From day one here at UTEP, I was committed to identifying men of high character to coach and mentor our student-athletes, and we found that in Mike.
“On the court, we are gaining a wealth of knowledge about basketball having played and coached at the highest levels of college basketball under the tutelage of more than one of the great coaches of our time. Our program will benefit from his vast experience and knowledge of the game, and we couldn’t be more excited that he has chosen to be a part of Miner Basketball.”
Roberts began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Texas Tech in 2005-06 under head coach Bobby Knight.
The Miners begin summer workouts on June 24.
Bret Bloomquist can be reached at bbloomquist@elpasotimes.com; @Bretbloomquist on Twitter.
This article originally appeared in the El Paso Times: UTEP Basketball Hires Mike Roberts as Men’s Assistant
