Selvig battled through an illness this past winter that sidelined him briefly. But he finished the season in good health and there was no indication he would retire this summer.

He will vacate his office in the Adams Center on Aug. 31.

"It's such a demanding job nowadays and it seems like it’s getting more and more difficult with the year-around things you can be doing with them," Schweyen said while on a recruiting trip in California. "After a while it just gets to where I think he was just ready to move on in his life.

"We have to respect that and wish him the best. I know it’s going to be really hard on the girls. It came as a shock to many people."

Selvig will be joined in Thursday's news conference by Montana athletics director Kent Haslam. He will discuss the plan to name a successor.

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Selvig won 865 games and built the Lady Griz into one of the most consistently successful programs in the nation. His teams produced 36 winning seasons, 31 20-win campaigns, 24 conference championships and 21 NCAA tournament appearances. Twenty-one times he was voted by his peers as his conference’s coach of the year.