Reports: Longhorns to hire Xavier's Sean Miller as men's basketball coach to replace Rodney Terry
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Longhorns lost to the Xavier Musketeers in the First Four of the men's NCAA Tournament on March 19, and then reportedly hired their coach following their loss in the next round.
According to multiple reports, with the first by Cedric Golden of the Austin American-Statesman, Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte will hire Sean Miller to replace Rodney Terry as head men's basketball coach. Del Conte and the university announced Terry's firing Sunday.
Miller finished his third season of his second stint as the Musketeers' head coach with a loss in the first round of March Madness on Friday to Illinois. Miller and his squad beat Terry's Texas team 86-80 in the First Four in Dayton, Ohio to advance in this year's tournament. The teams were two of the last at-large teams included in the tournament field by the selection committee.
The Musketeers finished this season 22-12 and Miller's overall record with the school, including his first stint from 2004-2009, is 122-63. That doesn't include four years with the program as the associate head coach from 2001-2004.
Miller left Xavier for the first time in 2009 to take the head coaching job at Arizona, a national power under longtime coach Lute Olson. Miller coached the Wildcats for 12 seasons until he was fired in 2021 amid a federal corruption investigation that began in 2017.
The NCAA charged the program with five Level I violations and said Miller didn't "promote an atmosphere for compliance and monitored his staff." An assistant, Emanuel "Book" Richardson, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery during the investigation. Arizona served a self-imposed one-year ban from postseason play and 50 wins were vacated from Miller's official record during the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons.