Coach Brown has had an interesting and unique career. He is the only coach in the history of intercollegiate athletics to have played an active role in National Championship games in three different sports. He coached men’s basketball at Purdue when they played in their only NCAA National Championship game. He has coached in five women’s National Championship games at two different schools (Tennessee and Michigan State). He assisted Coach Fulmer and was the motivational speaker for the Tennessee football team throughout the 1998 season. He spoke to the football team and was in the coaching box when the Volunteers won the National Championship in Tempe, Arizona. He is the only coach in the history of college basketball to coach in the men’s and women’s National Championship games.

During his seven years in the women’s game at Tennessee, the Lady Vols went to the NCAA Final Four five times, played in the National Championship game four times and won three National Championships in a row (1996-97-98) which is an NCAA record. Over that seven year period, the Lady Vols won 224 games and lost only 29, for a winning percentage of 89%, which included five straight Southeastern Conference Championships. During that time the Lady Vols had a record of 67 wins and 3 losses (96%).

In three years at Michigan State, Brown helped the Spartans win 81 games while losing only 23 for a winning percentage of 78%. This is the best three year record in school history. In Brown’s first season, the Spartans won a school record 33 games and advanced to the NCAA title game for the first time in school history. The Spartans have finished first and third twice in the Big Ten regular season and won the Big Ten tournament title for the first time in school history (2005). In conference play, the Spartans compiled their best three year record in school history winning 38 and only losing 10 for a winning percentage of 79%.

Brown’s video breakdown and opponent analysis as well as his on court teaching expertise has proven to be a valuable contribution to the success of every basketball team he has coached. He was recognized for this coaching expertise by the women’s head basketball coaches when he was named one of the top assistant coaches in the country, in a poll conducted, by Women’s Basketball Journal.

Brown also assists the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA during the summer by analyzing their game performances and assessing their personnel.

A native of Connersville, Indiana and graduate of Purdue University, where he played basketball, Brown has sixteen years of college coaching experience in the women’s game and sixteen years in the men’s collegiate game. In the men’s game, he has coached five different teams and has taken three different schools to the NCAA tournament advancing to the Sweet Sixteen three times, the Elite Eight twice and the final game once.

As a Division I men’s head coach, Brown led Ball State to a record setting 21 win season and the l986 Mid-American Tournament Championship. His team advanced to the NCAA tournament for only the second time in the school’s history. The first time Ball State advanced was when Brown was an assistant.

Coach Brown has recruited and coached some outstanding men and women players. The first Walter Byer’s Scholarship winner and the 1984 Naismith Award winner were two of Brown’s recruits. He has coached ten players who played in the NBA and twenty-five women who have played or are playing in the WNBA or overseas.

Brown is a motivational speaker and has given motivational speeches and conducted motivational seminars for companies and organizations throughout the country. He enjoys sharing his message on team building and how to develop group and individual potential.