Jarvis Returns to College Coaching

Former St. John's University head basketball coach Mike Jarvis has taken his first head coaching job since being fired by the Red Storm over five years ago with the Florida Atlantic Owls.

FAU, most recently known for winning the New Orleans Bowl (their first bowl appearance) in football, has been growing as a university and athletic program over the past decade.

The basketball program made the NCAA March Madness tournament in 2002 under the reigns of then-coach Sidney Green (father of Denver Nuggets guard Taurean Green) and has sought to stay relevant by hiring Matt Doherty and Rex Walters to head the program. With Walters leaving to coach San Francisco, a new head coach was needed.

Jarvis, a resident of Boca Raton, Fla., where FAU is located, signed a four-year contract that will be approved Wednesday.