Get ready to see Sean Miller in burnt orange.
The former Arizona Wildcats coach is heading to Texas as the Longhorns’ next head coach, as first reported by the Austin American-Statesman. Miller spent the last three seasons at Xavier.
Sean Miller will be hired as the new head basketball coach at the University of Texas, a high ranking official told the Austin American-Statesman Sunday.
— Cedric Golden (@CedGolden) March 23, 2025
Miller replaces Rodney Terry at Texas just days after the two coaches faced each other in the NCAA Tournament First Four in Dayton, Ohio. Xavier came back from double digits to beat Texas 86-80. The Musketeers then fell to Illinois in the Round of 64.
Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte must have liked what he saw from Miller (or more likely, Texas was already in talks with Miller’s agent) for UT to hire the three-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year away from Cincinnati.
Miller will lead a Texas program that is looking to stake its claim in the ultra-competitive SEC. Texas was the 14th and final SEC team to make the Big Dance this season after going 19-16 and 6-12 in league play.
Miller was in his second stint at Xavier after starting his head coaching career there in 2004. He spent five seasons at Xavier in his first go-around before taking the Arizona job in 2009.
After missing the NCAA Tournament his first season at Arizona, Miller led the Wildcats to the Big Dance in seven of the next eight years. Arizona missed the NCAA Tournament in 2018-19 but was on track to make it back the following year until COVID-19 prematurely put an end to the season.
In Miller’s final season at Arizona in 2020-21, the program accepted a self-imposed postseason ban over alleged recruiting violations and a lack of institutional control related to the FBI scandal.
Miller was dismissed shortly after the season and spent the next year taking a hiatus from coaching.
Not even four years later, Miller is back in charge of a top program with an enormous NIL budget.