Oregon State Hoops Coach Shares Acceptance Speech Stage with President-Elect Obama

As you Final Four Blog fans might have already heard, there was a pretty big election yesterday. Perhaps you heard about it. Hopefully you participated, but even if you only care about college basketball, there was still some slight college hoops element amid the presidential fanfare, acceptance speeches, pundit yammering and proposition percentages. In fact, a very famous college basketball coach was on the same stage with President-Elect Barack Obama last night after he gave his acceptance speech.

Craig Robinson, a former coach at Brown and now the head coach at Oregon State University, is the brother-in-law of Senator and soon-to-be President Barack Obama. In other words, he’s Michelle Obama’s older brother. He wasn’t on camera for that long, but he was very noticeable because he’s a huge guy. He used to be a pretty good college basketball player, himself.
Robinson didn’t speak at the event, but he did have a role in the Democratic National Convention, where he introduced his sister to the crowd. Will Craig Robinson’s position at Oregon State and Barrack Obama’s position in the White House ever cross paths? We’ll be sure to let you know if or when they do.

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