Jeff Goodman of FOXSports.com reports Oregon State will hire Brown coach and Princeton alumnus Craig Robinson to take over its struggling men’s basketball program. Robinson just oversaw a successful season in which his Bears went 19-10 and finished second in the Ivy League at 11-3, en route to a big to the inaugural College Basketball Invitational. He was named the 2006-07 Basketball U. Ivy League Coach of the Year in his first season on College Hill. Brown now will do its second national coaching search in the past two years in order to find a replacement for Robinson.

Slant: There was little advance warning of the move, and Robinson has to be elated with the opportunity, even if it’s a major rebuilding job. The hire may draw quizzical looks from the national media, but Robinson is merely the latest Ivy League coach to move on to a major conference job, joining John Thompson III (Georgetown) and his former boss, Bill Carmody (Northwestern), as well as Fran Dunphy, who went to Temple. Brown finds itself in the familiar position now of needing to bring in a new coach, and athletic director Mike Goldberger should have a solid applicant pool, especially after the past two coaches parlayed success in Providence into a successful launching pad for their Division I head coaching careers.