Darryl Brown joins the TSU women's basketball staff for his first season and brings a wealth of experience as both a head and assistant coach.

Brown's career includes his time at the University of Memphis as an Associate Head Coach where he helped lead the Tigers to their best record in American Athletic Conference play and a berth in the NIT.

In his two seasons at Cleveland State, Brown helped the Vikings move up in the Horizon League. He helped the Vikings post a combined 33-29 overall record, 19-13 conference mark and two top-five finishes in the Horizon League regular season. With Brown on staff, Cleveland State had four postseason award recipients and in his second year earned a trip to the National Invitation Tournament.

Prior to moving to Cleveland State, Brown spent five seasons (2008-13) at Pepperdine.  Brown helped Pepperdine climb back to the top third of the West Coast Conference. Brown helped Pepperdine to three winning seasons and two postseason berths. Among those three winning seasons was the program's first 20-win campaign (2009-10; 20-12 record) since 2002-03. The Waves also posted three-straight years with nine or more conference wins from 2008-09 to 2010-11. The last time Pepperdine had a longer streak of nine or more conference wins was from 1997-98 through 2003-04 (seven seasons).

Pepperdine had three-straight seasons with a top-three finish in the WCC regular season from 2008-09 to 2010-11. In that three-year run, the Waves also advanced to the 2010 WCC Championship title game and earned 2010 and 2011 WNIT berths.

In addition to the team's success, Brown helped in the development of the Waves' players. Brown had three players earn WCC postseason honors a total of six times and also had two players to play in the professional ranks. He also played a major role in Pepperdine's 2012 recruiting class that ESPN.com ranked No. 1 among mid-majors in the West and No. 7 among the mid-majors nationally.

Prior to Pepperdine, Brown spent four seasons at Cheyney University, an NCAA Division II school located in Cheyney, Pa., from 2004-08. Brown served as a Wolves assistant coach his first two seasons, and in 2006-07, was elevated to the program's interim head coach. He assumed the head coach title in 2007-08.

Brown helped engineer an amazing turnaround. After consecutive 20-loss seasons, Brown guided Cheyney to an 11-18 overall record and a 7-5 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) mark in 2007-08. The 11-18 overall record was the program's best ledger in 18 years. The 7-5 league record earned the Wolves a third-place finish in the PSAC East Division, and the squad qualified for the PSAC playoffs for the first time since 1989-90. Brown's team also achieved a team grade point average over 3.0. At the conclusion of the 2007-08 campaign Brown was voted by his peers as the PSAC East Coach of the Year. 

Brown is a graduate of Temple University with a degree in marketing.

Brown is married to the former Tasha McDowell, who is an assistant coach for the UCLA women's basketball program. The couple married in August of 2015.