Interim coach no more.
Isaac Brown will be dropping his interim title and will be taking over as full-time head men’s basketball coach, the program announced in a release on Friday.
Brown— who will become the program’s 26th full-time head coach— has agreed to a five-year deal.The deal is worth $6 million, according to ESPN’s Rece Davis.
Brown will become the first African American head coach in program history and the first to ever lead a Division-I program in Kansas.
Brown took over in the interim role on Nov. 18 following Gregg Marshall’s resignation and has led the Shockers 13-4 start.