RENO, Nev. Keith Brown will join the Wolf Pack men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach, Nevada head coach David Carter announced Tuesday.
Brown comes to the University of Nevada after spending the last two seasons as an assistant coach at Seattle University where he helped the Redhawks to a 21-8 record this year, the team’s most victories since 1984-85.
“We’re very excited to have Keith Brown join our staff,” Carter said. “He will be a great asset to our program because of his knowledge of the game and he gives us another good recruiter in the Los Angeles area.”
Prior to Seattle, Brown also spent four seasons from 2002-06 as an assistant coach at the University of Portland. While at Portland, he helped guard Eugene Jeter become the second-leading scorer in school history and earn first-team All-West Coast Conference honors in 2004 and 2006, while Jeter and fellow guard Donald Wilson became the second-highest scoring tandem in Pilot history.
A Los Angeles native, Brown was an assistant coach at El Camino College in Torrance, Calif., from 1998-2002 and spent three years as an assistant varsity coach at Inglewood (Calif.) High School. He also worked with AAU programs in Portland and Washington, D.C.
Brown played at El Camino College from 1988-90 where he helped his team to a pair of California Community College Final Four appearances. He also played for one season at Hampton University in Hampton, Va., from 1991-92. He played varsity basketball at St. Bernard High School in Playa Del Rey, Calif.
Brown earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Hampton University in 1993 and his master’s of education with an emphasis in physical education from Azusa Pacific University in 2000.
“I’m very excited to be a part of the University of Nevada family,” Brown said. “I look forward to working with Coach Carter, his staff and the players in this program. I’ve known Coach Carter for many years. He’s been a mentor to me in this business.”
