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.

Former Kansas Jayhawks point guard Jacque Vaughn, who coached the NBA’s Orlando Magic and Brooklyn Nets after spending 12 years in the league as a player, has been hired as an assistant men’s basketball coach at his alma mater, KU coach Bill Self announced Wednesday.

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