Wichita State Fires Men’s Basketball Coach Isaac Brown

The Shockers have dismissed Brown after three seasons.

Wichita State has fired men’s basketball coach Isaac Brown, the school announced Saturday.

Brown went 48-34 in three seasons at the helm of the Shockers program. He took over as Wichita State’s head coach in November 2020 when predecessor Gregg Marshall resigned following allegations of abuse. Brown had joined the Shockers as an assistant under Marshall prior to the 2014-15 season.

Wichita State earned seven consecutive NCAA tournament berths under Marshall from 2011-12 through 2017-18, including a Final Four appearance in 2013. The program reached the NCAA tournament under Brown in the 2020-21 season, losing in the First Four, but failed to earn a ticket to the Big Dance in each of the past two seasons.

The Shockers went 17-15 overall and 9-9 in the American Athletic Conference this season. That performance was slightly better than the 15-13 overall and 6-9 AAC marks from the 2021-22 season, but it wasn’t good enough for athletic director Kevin Saal.

“Wichita State Men’s Basketball maintains a rich tradition of excellence and is a source of great pride for the university, for the City of Wichita, for our state and for our region,” Saal said in a statement. “We must recapture the competitiveness, pride and unified support upon which this proud program has been built for decades.”

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