TALLAHASSEE, FLA. ? One big victory wasn’t enough to make up for four straight losing seasons.

Former Kansas assistant Steve Robinson was fired Monday as head basketball coach at Florida State.

The Seminoles scored arguably the biggest stunner of the season  and the biggest victory in the program’s history  when it snapped Duke’s 22-game winning streak with a 77-76 victory on Jan. 6, but FSU went 4-12 after that game.

Robinson was 64-86 in five years at Florida State, but just 46-72 over the last four seasons and 25-55 in the ACC.

“We haven’t won a lot of games and that’s why we’re here today,” athletic director David Hart Jr. said. “We just couldn’t turn the corner competitively.”

Hart said he had expected a breakout year for the Seminoles but “we’re still trying to learn how to win. It’s nobody’s fault, it just didn’t happen.”

Robinson, 44, went to FSU with high expectations. He had posted a 46-18 record and made consecutive NCAA Tournaments in two seasons at Tulsa after serving as a member of Roy Williams’ original staff at Kansas from 1988 to 1995.

During his time in Lawrence, KU won four Big Eight Conference titles and reached two Final Fours. Williams’ first staff also included Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings, former Oregon and Tennessee coach Jerry Green and Wichita State coach Mark Turgeon.

“It’s a sad time because he is one of the great human beings in the world, much less a guy who can coach the game of basketball and knows what it takes to run a program,” Williams said. “He got to Florida State at a very difficult time. I think the program has a much stronger, more solid base than it was when he got there. He has done a heck of a job, yet it is a very, very difficult job.”

Robinson led the Seminoles to the 1997-98 NCAA Tournament in his first season after replacing Pat Kennedy, but they haven’t been back since.

“Pat Kennedy had a very difficult time with it and won some, and Steve won some when he first got there,” Williams said. “It is a difficult league to play in. But, you know, he is one of the greatest guys in the profession. He is one of the guys in the profession that every coach would love for their son to play for, and that’s the highest compliment I can give anybody. I would trust him with my life. It is just sad that it didn’t work out.”

Robinson said he hoped to stay in coaching.

“I always held out hope we could turn it around,” he said. “I’ll be a better person, better coach, for the experience.”

Hart said Robinson would be paid $250,000 to cover the remaining two years on his contract and that the school would immediately begin looking for a new coach.

Possible successors include Richmond coach John Beilein, Tennessee Tech’s Jeff Lebo, Davidson’s Bob McKillop, Western Kentucky’s Dennis Felton, Winthrop’s Gregg Marshall, Hampton’s Steve Merfeld and Florida assistant John Pelfrey.