Larry Brown resigns from SMU

FILE - In this March 6, 2016, file photo, SMU head coach Larry Brown works the sideline during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Cincinnati, in Cincinnati. Larry Brown says he is resigning as SMU's basketball coach, ending a four-year run during which the Mustangs made the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1993 and then were banned from postseason play last season. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Well traveled basketball coach Larry Brown led SMU to at least 25 wins in each of the past three seasons, but won’t be back for a fifth year with the Mustangs.

Brown told ESPN’s Andy Katz on Friday he is resigning.

Tim Jankovich, a former Bill Self assistant at Kansas and SMU’s associate head coach, will reportedly take over the program.

Though Brown didn’t tell Katz his reason for stepping down — “I’ve got nothing else I can say right now,” Brown told ESPN — CBS Sports reported the 75-year-old resigned because SMU didn’t show interest in giving him a longterm contract extension.

A former head coach at UCLA and Kansas, Brown went 94-39 at SMU in his four seasons, and guided the Mustangs to the 2015 NCAA Tournament.

Brown spent much of his career in the NBA, winning a championship with Detroit in 2004, but also led both UCLA and KU to a Final Four berth and won the national championship at Kansas in 1988.

In what proved to be Brown’s final season at SMU, he served a nine-game suspension and the NCAA banned the Mustangs from the postseason, after an investigation surrounding guard Keith Frazier found a “lack of coach control.”