After two years and two more NCAA Tournament appearances, Utah State is again looking for a new basketball coach.

Jerrod Calhoun will be the next head coach at Cincinnati, CBS Sports reported Monday. Calhoun is from Ohio and got his start in coaching as a student assistant at Cincinnati in 2003.

Calhoun went 55-15 in Logan and made two appearances in the NCAA Tournament. This season, the Aggies won the Mountain West Conference and beat Villanova in the opening round of the tournament. USU then lost to No. 1 Arizona in the second round.

Calhoun’s departure continues a streak of coaches leaving Logan after NCAA Tournament appearances. USU has employed four coaches in the last six years.

Craig Smith left for Utah. Ryan Odom went to VCU. Danny Sprinkle left for Washington. And now Calhoun has left for the Big 12 Conference.

Last year, Calhoun said he thought he could win a championship at Utah State. It breathed life into the idea that maybe Calhoun would be the coach to stay in Logan. He said he liked the thought of being the modern-day Stew Morrill, who prowled the Spectrum’s sidelines for decades.

Instead, USU will be looking at resumes.

In recent days, Calhoun expressed some concerns about the limitations and obstacles facing mid-major programs. The coach had called his team’s seeding “atrocious.”

“What we learned this year from the committee [is] it’s very hard for us,” the coach said after his No. 9-seeded Aggies had lost to Arizona. “ With 28 wins and a regular season title and a tournament title and pretty good metrics — I don’t know where you can go, to be honest with you. I’m still flabbergasted we were a nine-seed.”

Calhoun also spoke plainly about the Aggies’ finances. He said the program raised $2.4 million in name, image and likeness money for his team’s roster — $150,000 coming from his own donation.

“Our university didn’t share revenue this year,” Calhoun said. “So we opted in, but we got zero dollars from the university. We knew as a staff we’ve got to spend about 70 percent of our time in the offseason fundraising.”

Calhoun estimated programs would need to spend closer to $10 million to be Sweet 16 contenders in the future.

First, Calhoun will be tasked with getting Cincinnati back to the NCAA Tournament. Under Wes Miller, who was fired last week, the Bearcats failed to make the tournament in each of the last five seasons.