Sean Miller

Miller’s path through the college coaching ranks began at Wisconsin in 1992, when he served as a graduate assistant on a UW staff that also included current Detroit Pistons head coach and president of basketball operations Stan Van Gundy. Following one season in Madison, Miller spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Miami (Ohio). Miller spent the 1995-96 season as an assistant at his alma mater, Pittsburgh. Starting with the 1996-97 season, Miller had a five-year term as an assistant coach at North Carolina State. Miller made the move back to southwestern Ohio in 2001, joining the staff at Xavier as the program’s first-ever associate head coach. The Musketeers made the NCAA Tournament in each Miller’s three seasons as associate head coach, reaching the program’s first-ever Elite Eight in 2004. Miller took over as Xavier’s head coach prior to the 2004-05 season and proceeded to embark on one of the best five-year runs in program history. In eight years as head men’s basketball coach at the University of Arizona, Sean Miller has not only proven himself to be one of the elite coaches in all of college basketball, but has also successfully restored UA to its place among the premier programs in the game.