Bobby Roberts (December 19, 1927 â June 22, 2002) was an American college basketball coach for Clemson University from 1962 to 1970.
Roberts played for Mars Hill Junior College (now Mars Hill University) and Furman. He joined Clemson in 1958 as an assistant and coach of the freshman team. He was promoted to head coach when Press Maravich left the Tigers to take an assistant coaching position under Everett Case at NC State.
Roberts coached the Tigers for eight seasons. He was the first coach in school history to lead the ram to consecutive winning seasons in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), in 1965âÂÂ66 and 1966âÂÂ67. Roberts resigned his post with six regular-season games to go the 1969âÂÂ70 season, to be effective at the end of the year. The team finished 7âÂÂ19 in his last year. He was replaced by Tates Locke on March 18, 1970.
Roberts died on June 22, 2002, at age 74 at his home in Aiken, South Carolina.