SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – The University of Incarnate Word men's basketball team added a new assistant coach to the current staff.  Head coach Ken Burmeister was able to secure the hiring of veteran assistant coach, Johnny Brown.

Brown joins the Cardinals coaching staff with an impressive resume and has over twenty years of coaching experience.  In 1981, Brown started his college basketball career as a player at Loyola Marymount University.  After two years at the school, Brown transferred to New Mexico where he was one of four players to score over a thousand points in two seasons for the school.  In 1986, Brown's playing career continued as he was drafted by the Los Angeles Clippers with the 146^th overall pick in the draft.  Although he never played in the NBA, Brown spent five seasons as a player in the World Basketball League (WBL).

In 1992, Brown began his coaching career at Cal Poly and has been coaching college basketball ever since. He has coached at over ten different institutions and brings a wealth of experience to the UIW basketball team. His other stops include Fresno State, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Northern Iowa, Eastern Oklahoma (twice), Binghamton, Montana State, New Mexico Junior College, Southern Utah and Ranger College.

Brown joins assistant coaches Brian Curtis and John Smith for the upcoming season as the Cardinals begin their third season in the Southland Conference.  The 2015 campaign starts on November 13 at the McDermott Convocation Center as the Cardinals take on Texas Lutheran.
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