Los Angeles ? Tim Floyd is being hired as Southern California basketball coach, taking the job Rick Majerus accepted then abruptly quit last month.

USC spokesman Tim Tessalone said Thursday that a news conference would be held this afternoon on campus to introduce Floyd.

The former Chicago Bulls and New Orleans Hornets coach will return to the college ranks, where he was 35-25 in two seasons at Idaho; 127-58 in six seasons at the University of New Orleans, and 81-47 in four years at Iowa State.

The 50-year-old Floyd was fired by the Hornets last May after they went 41-41 and lost in the first round of the NBA playoffs in his only season with the team.

He still had two years remaining on his contract with the Hornets, an issue that had to be worked out before he took the Trojans’ post.

Floyd had the unenviable task of replacing Phil Jackson as the Bulls’ coach in the post-Michael Jordan era. Jackson won six NBA titles and 74 percent of his games in nine seasons.

Floyd went 49-190 in Chicago — one of the worst records ever for an NBA coach — before resigning in December 2001.

USC fired Henry Bibby on Dec. 6 — just four games into the season.