Bobby Collins (basketball)
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Conference | MEAC |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
September 20, 1966 Southern Pines, North Carolina |
| Playing career | |
| 1987–1991 | Eastern Kentucky |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1994–1995 | Old Dominion (asst.) |
| 1995–2002 | Hampton (asst.) |
| 2002–2006 | Hampton |
| 2006–2014 | Winston-Salem State |
| 2014–present | Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| MEAC Tournament championship (2006) | |
| Awards | |
| MEAC Coach of the Year (2015) | |
Bobby Lee Collins (born September 20, 1966) is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Maryland Eastern Shore. He has been the head coach at Winston-Salem State University and Hampton University.
Collins played collegiate basketball at Eastern Kentucky University from 1987 until 1991, earning All-Ohio Valley Conference Honorable Mention in his senior season. After earning his degree in business administration and management, he played one season overseas in Finland before returning to his alma mater to spend two years as an admissions counselor. In 1994, Collins took his first coaching job as an assistant to Jeff Capel II with the Old Dominion Monarchs.
He left Old Dominion after one season to join the coaching staff at Hampton. As a part of the Pirates' staff, Collins helped a program that was transitioning to Division I upon his arrival become a constant presence at the top of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. This rise to the top reached its apex with back-to-back MEAC tournament titles in 2001 and 2002. The 2001 Pirates squad pulled off one of the most memorable upsets in the history of the NCAA tournament, playing as a 15-seed and defeating the second-seeded Iowa State Cyclones in the first round.
Following the 2002 season, Hampton's then-head coach Steve Merfeld left the school to take over at the University of Evansville. Shortly thereafter, Collins was promoted to the position as head coach, his first-ever head coaching position.
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