TCU Fires Trent Johnson After Four Seasons As Horned Frogs Coach

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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - Texas Christian University has fired head basketball coach Trent Johnson.

The Horned Frogs dealt with a bevy of injuries this season and only finished 12-21 overall.

Johnson went 50-79 in four years at TCU.

Here is the statement released early Monday from the University's Director of Intercollegiate athletics Chris Del Conte.

"Trent Johnson is a man of unbelievable integrity," Del Conte said. "It's hard to find a better person than Trent, and I have the highest level of respect for him. However, we believe change is needed in the leadership of our men's basketball program. With our new facility and playing in the Big 12, the strongest basketball conference in the country, we're positioned well to have a men's basketball program that makes TCU and Fort Worth proud. Trent inherited a very difficult situation, and we truly appreciated his efforts over the last four years. We simply did not have the success we envisioned but believe the pieces are now in place for us to move forward."

Johnson was previously the head coach of LSU, Stanford, and Nevada. He took all three of those schools to the NCAA Tournament.

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