21 Facts About Sean Miller

Sean Edward Miller was born on November 17,1968 and is an American college basketball coach who currently serves as head coach at the University of Texas at Austin.

Sean Miller previously served as head coach at the University of Arizona from 2009 to 2021 and Xavier University from 2004 to 2009 and then again from 2022 to 2025.

Sean Miller has won five league Coach of the Year Awards: once in the A10, three in the Pac-12, and once as USA Basketball Coach of the Year.

The son of John Sean Miller, a Pennsylvania high school basketball coach, Sean Miller was a point guard under his father at Blackhawk High School in Chippewa Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

Sean Miller had developed considerable ballhandling skills before that time and appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson when he was fourteen years old.

Sean Miller's ball handling skills were such that he was featured in the 1979 movie The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, starring basketball star Julius Erving.

Sean Miller was recruited to Pittsburgh by John Calipari who was an assistant for the Panthers from 1985 to 1988.

Jason Matthews, the shooting guard next to Sean Miller, recalls he was the leader of the team, even as a freshman, and that the upperclassmen welcomed him as a leader.

Sean Miller then spent two seasons at Miami under Herb Sendek, during which the team made two postseason appearances.

Sean Miller then returned to his alma mater of Pittsburgh for a season as an assistant under Ralph Willard.

Sean Miller's next move was a return to southwestern Ohio in 2001.

Sean Miller won three A-10 regular season championships and one A-10 conference tournament championship.

Sean Miller initially turned the job down before changing his mind and accepting the job on April 6,2009, despite having never visited the Arizona campus.

Sean Miller was succeeded at Xavier by former assistant Chris Mack.

Sean Miller is tied for 20th in career conference victories at 107.

Sean Miller served as head coach for four of the seven seasons in Arizona history in which the team has won 30 or more games.

Sean Miller would vacate 50 wins in his coaching record wherever he coaches collegiately.

Sean Miller was hired by Xavier on March 19,2022, after having last coached at the school in 2009.

The announcement that Sean Miller would take the job vacancy in Texas happened on March 23,2025 after Texas fired its previous head coach, Rodney Terry.

Sean Miller served as the head coach of the USA men's Under-19 junior national team, which competed at the 2015 FIBA Under-19 World Championship.

Sean Miller was replaced in 2017 by close friend John Calipari as the head coach, ending his 2-year run.