Soon after the hire, Rosborough, a former Iowa Hawkeye but still a teacher and eighth grade coach in Chicago at the time, called Olson to tell him about a prospect.

His willingness to work, his passion for the game, and his knowledge of the Chicago area made him a good fit at Iowa.

"[16] Recruiting was one of Rosborough's initial responsibilities, as he explained in a 2019 interview, “One of the good things we did at Iowa was to start an Advanced Invitational Camp.

[18] On Olson's departure, Rosborough was hired as an assistant to athletic director Bump Elliott and stayed at Iowa for two additional years.

Following the success in Tulsa, Rosborough was hired as the head men's basketball coach at Northern Illinois University in April 1986, with a stated goal to build a team that could make the NCAA tournament.

[17][20] In his three seasons as head coach at NIU, he answered to three different Athletic Directors, an instability that led to Rosborough being fired from the program in 1989.

[21] Rosborough said in a 2019 interview, “I knew right away when they hired the third AD that it wasn’t a good fit, so that was kind of a struggle year.

Following the 1997 National Championship, Olson promoted Rosborough to Associate Head Coach, the position he would retain until leaving the team in 2007.

In the first game of the NCAA Tournament, Arizona was in danger of getting upset by South Alabama, who was leading by two points at the half.

The Wildcats relied on a perimeter strategy from guards Miles Simon, Mike Bibby, Michael Dickerson, and Jason Terry to carry the team.

One of the team's unique accomplishments in their improbable run to the 1997 championship was that they were the only team in NCAA Tournament history to beat three No.1 seeds: Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams' nearly undefeated Kansas Jayhawks in the Sweet Sixteen, Hall of Fame coach Dean Smith's North Carolina Tar Heels in the Final Four, and Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino's Kentucky Wildcats in the National Championship.

[22] When Lute Olson was hired at Iowa in the spring of 1974, Jim Rosborough phoned and told him about a Chicago prospect.

His willingness to work, his passion for the game, and his knowledge of the Chicago area made him a good fit at Iowa."

Following the season, Rosborough rejected an offer to move to a non-coaching position within the athletic department, ending the long partnership with Olson.

"[24] Rosborough's background in tennis and unlikely friendship with Jeb Schoonover is detailed in a 2004 Tucson Weekly magazine story called "The Odder Couple.

[28] Greg attended the University of Arizona and while there worked alongside his father as the basketball team's video coordinator.

[29] Greg lives with his wife Rebecca in New York City, where he is a menswear designer and was a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist in 2019.

[30] Rosborough and his wife participate annually in the Humane Society of Southern Arizona's "Puttin' on the Dog" fundraiser to support shelter animals.

[31] Rosborough has been an active board member involved in community governance at Epworth Heights, in Ludington, Michigan, his family summer home.