Jeremy Brown enters his 20th season with the Fort Hays State men's basketball program in 2025-26. This will be his seventh year serving as Associate Head Coach after serving 13 years as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator of the program. He enters his 26th year in NCAA Division II and 24th overall at FHSU after serving as a graduate assistant coach from 2001-2003 and student assistant from 1998-2000.
Prior to his return to FHSU, Brown was the assistant coach at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma, from 2004-2006. He helped coach the team to a top-25 ranking two years in a row and its only NCAA Tournament appearance in history in 2004-05.
Over the last 21 years as an assistant coach and associate head coach, Brown helped guide eight teams to the NCAA Tournament (seven at FHSU and one at SWOSU). He coached 11 teams that won at least 20 games in a season. Three of the teams he helped coach reached a top three ranking in the national poll and nine reached the top 25. In 2011, Brown helped Fort Hays State claim its first-ever MIAA Tournament Championship, then in 2013 helped guide FHSU to its first MIAA Regular Season Championship. Last year (2024-25), the Tigers claimed their second MIAA Tournament Championship. Fort Hays State had the nation's top scoring defense each of the last two seasons, allowing just 57.9 points per game in 2023-24 and 59.9 per game in 2024-25.
As a coach at FHSU and SWOSU, he has recruited three All-Americans, nine all-region selections, and numerous all-conference players.
A native of Mulvane, Kan., Brown played two years of basketball at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, from 1996-1998. He earned a bachelorâs degree in Elementary Education from Fort Hays State University in 2001 and a masterâs degree in Sports Administration in 2003. He and his wife Nikki have two sons, Cooper and Jacob.
