Mike Anderson was fired as the head coach of the St. John's Basketball program on Mar. 10, and he is planning to file an arbitration lawsuit against the school after he was terminated “for cause,” according to ESPN's Myron Medcalf.

Anderson believes that he has been wrongfully terminated, and per his contract, he would have been owed $11 million if he had not been fired for cause, per Medcalf.

“After fully evaluating the men's basketball program, our University has decided a change is needed in both the leadership and direction of St. John's Basketball,” athletic director Mike Cragg said in a statement when the firing happened.

The termination latter said that Anderson was fired for “failure to create and support an environment that strongly encourages student-athletes who are in the men's basketball program to meet all university academic requirements,” “failure to perform your duties and responsibilities in a manner that reflected positively on St. John's University…in actions [that] brought serious discredit” to the school and “failure to appropriately supervise and communicate with your assistant coaches.”

Anderson denied the allegations on Monday, in a statement he made to ESPN.

“I vehemently disagree with the university's decision to terminate my contract for cause,” Anderson said. “The for cause accusation is wholly without merit and I will be aggressively defending my contractual rights through an arbitration process.”

Anderson is being represented by attorney John Singer of Singer-Deutsch, who is currently working with Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule in his $5 million arbitration case against the Carolina Panthers, per ESPN.

Mike Anderson had a 68-56 record in his four years as the head coach of St. John's Basketball, not leading the program to the NCAA tournament once during his tenure. Although he led the Arkansas Razorbacks to three NCAA tournaments, he failed to replicate that success in the Big East.

“There's been plenty of issues behind the scenes at St. John's in the Anderson era,” wrote Sports Illustrated's Kevin Sweeney on Monday. “That said, trying to get out of paying the guy after a firing that clearly was more about results than anything else is a weak move.”