Larry Brown when he 1st took the job as head basketball coach at SMU. Brown brought SMU into the national conversation the following year and led the team to a 27-10 record in the 2013-2014 season. only coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship (Kansas, 1988) and an NBA title (Pistons, 2004) On April 17, 2012, ESPN reported that Brown was to be named the new head coach of the SMU Mustangs, replacing Matt Doherty, who had been fired from SMU earlier in March. Tim Jankovich, the head coach of Illinois State, was hired as the coach-in-waiting.

WFAA