LSU has hired Virginia Commonwealth head basketball coach Will Wade to the same position, the school said Monday night.

Sweet dreams Tiger fans. It’s official! pic.twitter.com/jAKrmVoRfG — LSU Basketball (@LSUBasketball) March 21, 2017

ESPN’s Jeff Goodman says it’s a six-year agreement.

Wade replaces Johnny Jones, whom LSU dismissed after a 10-21 season. The former North Texas coach was on the job in Baton Rouge for five years and went 90-72.

Wade has been VCU’s head coach for the last two seasons. He replaced Shaka Smart in that role after Smart departed for Texas following the 2015 NCAA tournament. Wade was on VCU’s staff as an assistant from 2009-2013 — a period that included the team’s Cinderella run to the Final Four in 2011. Between his time as an assistant and VCU’s head coach, he spent two seasons in charge at Chattanooga.

Wade is a pretty exciting hire for the Tigers — not a blockbuster on the level of Smart when he went to Texas, but still big. He’s just 34, but he’s accomplished a lot and coaches an exciting style. He’s versed in Smart’s “Havoc” defense, which once made the Rams the best turnover-forcing defense in the country for three years in a row. The Rams haven’t rated that highly under Wade, but they’ve still forced plenty.

Wade’s VCU teams were No. 10 seeds in the NCAA tournament each of the last two years. Last year’s team won a first-round game against Oregon State, while this year’s fell in the first round to Saint Mary’s in what turned out to be Wade’s final game.

For most of its history, the LSU men’s basketball program has not been a successful enterprise. The big exception is a period from 1979 to 1993, when the Tigers made the NCAA tournament 13 times in 15 years and, at one point, 10 seasons in a row. Those were all under Dale Brown, whose 749 wins could stand forever as the most in program history. Other than back then, LSU’s successes have only been fleeting.

John Brady made a Final Four in 2006, when LSU had a cool team that featured Glen Davis, Tyrus Thomas, Darrel Mitchell, and Tasmin Mitchell. But the program didn’t parlay that into future success and has appeared in two NCAA tournaments since then.

For the 2015-16 season, LSU landed five-star Australian forward Ben Simmons, a generational recruit who should’ve been good enough to drag LSU to the tournament all by himself. Jones even landed another five-star, guard Antonio Blakeney. The Tigers could do nothing with them, and Simmons left after one year to become the first pick in the NBA draft. Blakeney was LSU’s leading scorer as a sophomore this season.

Kentucky and Florida have owned this era of SEC basketball. Other schools, including LSU more than a decade ago, have put together top teams that have lasted for a season or a few. That’s not the best, but the Tigers would surely take it right now. Wade is a strong candidate to get them there.