Jamie Dixon is leaving Pittsburgh to become head coach at TCU, where he played on the last Horned Frogs team that won an NCAA Tournament game nearly three decades ago.
TCU hired Dixon on Monday, a week after Trent Johnson was fired with only eight Big 12 Conference wins in his four seasons.
Scott Barnes, Pittsburgh's athletic director for less than a year, said there had been several conversations with Dixon about the job at his alma mater since the Panthers were knocked out of the NCAA Tournament last week.
"We all knew that job was open so it wasn't a surprise," Barnes said.