Miami basketball coach Jim Larrañaga’s time with the Hurricanes appears to be coming to an end.

According to the Miami Herald, Larrañaga, 75, is expected to resign and the announcement could come as early as Thursday afternoon. According to ESPN, that is Bill Courtney will be the interim coacha longtime assistant and former head coach at Cornell.

The Hurricanes are 4-8 so far this season after going 15-17 in the 2023-24 season.

The downturn came after Miami surprisingly made it to the Final Four in 2023. The Hurricanes went 29-8 and won the Midwest Region as a No. 5 seed with wins over No. 1 Houston and No. 2 Texas. Miami lost to eventual national champion UConn in the Final Four. The 72-59 loss was the closest game UConn played in the entire NCAA Tournament this season.

Miami appeared far from being a Final Four team in the opening stages of the 2024-25 season. The Hurricanes started the season 3-0 before losing seven straight games. Those losses included losses to Drake, VCU and Charleston Southern, as well as losses to power conference teams like Arkansas, Clemson and No. 1 Tennessee. The Hurricanes finished the series with a 94-75 win over Presbyterian, but started the Christmas break with a 78-74 overtime loss to Mount St. Mary’s on Dec. 21.

Miami blew a 10-point second-half lead to the Mountaineers before falling 12-8 in overtime.

The 2023 Final Four appearance was the Hurricanes’ first in school history and came a season after No. 10 seed Miami advanced to the Elite Eight after defeating No. 2 Auburn in the second round of the tournament.

The long-time coach has been in Miami for 14 seasons. He came to the Hurricanes from George Mason. He spent 14 seasons at George Mason, followed by 11 seasons at Bowling Green.

Larrañaga was at George Mason’s helm when the Patriots made one of the most improbable Final Four runs in modern college basketball history in 2006. George Mason beat three top 7 seeds before defeating No. 1 Connecticut in the Elite Eight. The Patriots lost 73-58 to eventual national champion Florida in the national semifinals.

During Larrañaga’s time with the team, George Mason reached the NCAA Tournament five times. Miami also reached the NCAA Tournament five times during his tenure.

Overall, Larrañaga’s teams have a record of 716-483 since he began his head coaching career in the 1986-87 season. He has established a winning record at all three schools and both George Mason and Miami have won more than 60% of their games under his leadership.

If he officially steps down, Larrañaga will become the second ACC coach to leave his job before the calendar turns to 2025. Virginia’s Tony Bennett resigned in October, saying he was “no longer the best coach to lead this program in this current environment.” Bennett’s Cavaliers won the 2019 national title a year after finishing as the No. 1 seed in lost in the first round of the tournament.