Martynas Rubikas joined the High Point staff as a graduate assistant in the summer of 2023 and was promted to Assistant Coach in the spring of 2025.
Over the past three seasons with the Panthers, he helped High Point compile and overall record of 87-20 with a 42-6 Big South record. Rubikas was a part of HPU’s 2026 NCAA Tournament run and first-ever tournament berth in 2025. As the 12-seed this past season, HPU made history with its first-ever tournament win, with an upset over No. 5 seed Wisconsin, 83-82 to make the Round of 32. The Panthers hoisted the Big South championship trophy and cut down the nets for the second time in program history and become the first Big South team to win back-to-back tournament championships since Winthrop from 2019-21.
HPU finished the 2025-26 season with a Big South and program record, 31-5, breaking the program and conference record of 29 wins set by High Point last season and Winthrop in 2006-07. The Panthers collected their third straight Big South Regular-Season title and No. 1 seed entering the Big South Tournament after setting a new program record in league play going 15-1.
High Point finished the season 3rd in the CollegeInsider Mid-Major Top 25 poll -- highest placement in program history -- and have been in the poll for 56 consecutive weeks making for the longest streak in Big South program history. HPU also ranked in the Field of 68 mid-major rankings, finishing 7th at the end of the season. In the final weeks of the season, High Point was receiving votes in the Associate Press poll and received as many as 14 votes on March 15, the most ever by a Panthers team.
Throughout the 2025-26 season, High Point performed in the top 25 in national statistical categories finishing out the regular-season as 1st in steals per game (10.9), 1st in scoring margin (19.7), 4th in assist/turnover ratio (1.74), 3rd in free throws made (19.9), 3rd in scoring offense (90.0), 3rd in fastbreak points (18.88), 19th in effective field goal percentage (56.6%), and 20th in field goal percentage (49.1%). In KenPom, the Panthers ranked 10th in raw offense with a 120.7 rating, behind Vanderbilt and Florida. On the defensive side, HPU ranked 37th overall in raw defense.
During the 2024-25 season, he helped the staff lead HPU to its first ever-NCAA tournament appearance as the No. 13 seed and matched up against No. 4 seed Purdue. He helped the staff turn around an under .500 program and guided the Panthers to back-to-back outright Big South Regular Season titles for the first time in program history.
HPU finished with an overall record of 29-6 during the 2024-25 season, which tied for the most wins in Big South program history (Winthrop, 2006-07) and the most wins in HPU program history. The Panthers finished the regular season with a 26-5 record and a 14-2 league record.
Prior to HPU, Rubikas spent the five seasons as an assistant coach at the high school level. In two seasons (2021-2023) with Southern California Academy, Rubikas helped the Rams to a 41-14 record, serving as player development coach, video coordinator, and advance scout. From 2018-2021, Rubikas spent three seasons as an assistant coach at St. Louis Christian Academy. Rubikas was a student manager with the men’s basketball program at the University of Cincinnati from 2015-2018.
