ESPN sources: Michigan's Beilein to coach Cavaliers

University of Michigan coach John Beilein has agreed to a five-year contract to become the Cleveland Cavaliers' coach, league sources told ESPN.

Beilein reached a deal with the Cavaliers on Sunday and informed Michigan's administration of his decision to leave for the NBA this morning, sources said.

The Cavaliers have been using the term "culture driver" internally when discussing the possibility of hiring Beilein. He's considered one of the elite offensive tacticians and teachers in basketball, a coach who has never been an assistant and climbed almost every level of basketball – coaching high school, junior college, Division III, II and I. The final step in an odyssey that's brought him an 829-468 college record has been the NBA, and now Beilein makes the leap.