MALIBU, California – Gerald Brown has been elevated to the position of assistant coach for the Pepperdine men's basketball team, head coach Lorenzo Romar announced today. Former assistant Reggie Morris Jr. has departed to pursue a new opportunity.
 
Brown, one of the Waves' all-time greats, served as the program's assistant director of operations for the past year.
 
"I'm really ecstatic for our program and for Gerald Brown to be able to elevate him to the position of a full-time assistant coach," Romar said. "Gerald is a great teacher of the game. As a player he had a great basketball IQ. That IQ will be beneficial to helping our players develop. He has a great gift with people. He has a presence about him where our players can trust and believe what he's saying. He has a passion for this university and this program, which is something that really shines through in his work."
 
Brown was a three-time All-West Coast Conference performer for Pepperdine between 1994-98. His final two years of the Waves' coincided with Romar's first stint as the Waves' head coach.
 
"I am very excited and feel blessed that Coach Romar has given me this opportunity," Brown said. "I'm very thankful to have been back at Pepperdine the past year. This place has changed the trajectory of my life. To be able to give back to the program, and to do for others like my coaches did for me, is a blessing. Continuing to learn from Coach Romar will be great."
 
Brown left Pepperdine at #12 on the program's all-time scoring list with 1,467 points (he's currently #14). He earned All-WCC first team honors in 1995, 1996 and 1998 and led the Waves in scoring each of those years. In 1996, he led the WCC in scoring at 17.8 points per game. He played on the Waves' 1994 NCAA Tournament team as a freshman. He came back and graduated from Pepperdine in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1998.
 
Brown was previously an assistant coach at Concordia-Irvine for three seasons (2015-16 to 2017-18), helping the NCAA Division II school to a 59-27 record, a pair of 20-win seasons and a share of the 2016 PacWest Conference regular-season title. He was an assistant at Arizona Christian in 2014-15, helping the Firestorm to a school-record 25 wins and the program's first-ever victory at the NAIA Tournament. He was also the head coach of the Arizona Scorpions of the American Basketball Association and led the Scorpions to the ABA Final Four in 2015.