Former NBA star and coach Jacque Vaughn is taking his talents to college basketball. Kansas is set to hire the two-time NBA head coach as an assistant basketball coach, according to ESPN. Kansas head coach Bill Self had a role to fill with the retirement of assistant Norm Roberts.

American, whose No. 11 jersey hangs in the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse, is returning to Lawrence as an assistant coach for

Vaughn played at KU from 1993 to 1997 under coach Roy Williams. He became the Big Eight’s all-time assists leader and ranks third in program history with 804 assists. He was the 1996 Big Eight Player of the Year and earned second-team All-American honors.