After 37 years of coaching and 14 seasons with the Jayhawks, longtime assistant coach Norm Roberts is calling it a career. Roberts, a member of the ‘A STEP UP Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame,’ has been with Kansas head coach Bill Self since 1995.

For the first time since 2012, a Kansas men’s basketball team will soon take the court for a season without Norm Roberts on the sideline. Bill Self’s longtime assistant coach announced his retirement on Monday morning after 37 years of coaching.

Norm Roberts says the ever-changing landscape of college basketball — one driven by NIL and the transfer portal — did not play a role in his decision to retire after 14 years as an assistant coach at Kansas and 37 years total in the business.