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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. --- Wes Miller is one of the hottest coaches in college basketball. In nine full seasons at the helm of the UNC Greensboro basketball program, the former Tar Heel guard has led the Spartans to two NCAA tournaments. Miller and UNCG punched their most recent ticket to the dance on Monday night with a 69-61 win over Mercer.

Miller is 182-134 (.576) overall at UNCG and a 109–66 (.623) mark in conference play. The Spartans have won 25 or more games in each of the last four seasons. UNC Greensboro has won the SoCon regular season three times over the last five season.

Miller played three seasons at North Carolina under head coach Roy Williams. He always had aspirations to coach and wasted little time in beginning his college coaching career. After graduating from UNC, Miller played one season of international ball for the London Capitals before landing assistant coaching jobs with Elon, then High Point, and then UNC Greensboro.

He was named interim coach for the Spartans during the 2011-12 season. He was officially named the head coach of UNC Greensboro on March 6, 2012.

Last week, Coach Williams was asked about Miller, who has become one of the more successful limbs of his coaching tree.

“Well, I think he's been fantastic," Williams said. "...I love him to death. He's got some things that I haven't said about other people. One, he got more out of his potential, came closer to reaching his potential than any player I've ever coached. You know, he wasn't a great ball handler, he didn't have great passing ability, but he could shoot the ball and he's tough as nails. That's where he made his living. And he played close to his potential’s maximum as anybody I've ever seen. And in my lifetime as a coach, he did a better job of that than anybody."

Roy Williams and Wes Miller in 2015. (Photo: Grant Halverson / Contributor, Getty)

When Miller looked to transfer to UNC from James Madison, he made it clear to Coach Williams that he wanted to coach basketball.

"Now the first conversation we ever had, I'm trying to see if he's interested in transferring here," Willaims explained. "And I said, ‘What do you want to be doing 10 or 15 years from now.’ And he said, ‘I want to be a coach.’ And I said, ‘Well, you should come here, then.’ And I was thinking that, if that's what he wanted to do, I would try to be sharing things with him his entire time here and his entire time afterwards and I thought it would be a good situation for him."

Miller transferred to UNC after his 2002-03 season at James Madison. He sat out the 2003-04 season (Williams's first at UNC) and then played the next three in Chapel Hill.

"And it worked out great for us," Williams added. "He was part of some really, really good teams. One year about halfway through the season, I changed the starting lineup put him in to get somebody to make more jump shots, and our team got a heck of a lot better."

Miller's best season was in 2005-06. He played in 31 games and made 16 starts. Miller averaged 7.2 points and 1.9 assists per game while playing 22.6 minutes per contest. He shot 43.8 percent from the field and 44.1 percent from three.

"When I'm talking to my team about toughness, I talk about the three best charges I've ever had guys take and one of them was West Miller at Arizona," Williams said. "And so he's got the toughness. He had the toughness to make shots in games. He's a very bright young man. He's very organized... he thinks the game very well. He's just done a great, great job. He's already a big-time coach, but he's going to be a big-time coach at a much bigger program one of these days.”

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Former Tar Heel Guard Wes Miller Leads UNCG Back to NCAA Tournament - #Tar #Heel #Guard #Wes #Miller #Leads #UNCG #NCAA #Tournament

Former North Carolina guard and UNC Greensboro head coach Wes Miller is heading back to the NCAA Tournament. The Spartans defeated Mercer 69-61 on Monday night in the Southern Conference Tournament Championship game to earn an invite to the Big Dance.

The Spartans were lead guard Isaiah Miller who finished with 25 points (10-for-20). UNCG Greensboro finished the regular season and SoCo Tournament with a 21-8 overall record.

Coach Miller also lead the Spartans to the NCAA Tournament in 2018. They were the No. 14 seed and lost 68-64 in the first round to No. 4 seed Gonzaga.

After three seasons playing under Roy Williams at UNC, Miller played one season for the London Capitals of the British Basketball League before returning to the United States to start his coaching career. He was an assistant coach at Elon and High Point University before accepting an assistant coaching job with UNCG ahead of the 2010-2011 season.

Miller was named UNC Greensboro's interim coach during the 2011-12 season after the school and head coach Mike Dement parted ways. When he took over, the team was 2-8.  Miller helped the Spartans finished with a 10-8 record in Southern Conference play and a 13-19 record overall. They won first place in the Southern Conference North Division.

UNCG head coach Wes Miller (Photo: Icon Sportswire / Contributor, Getty)

Miller has been the head coach at UNCG for the last 10 years. He has led the Spartans to 182-134 overall record (.576) and a 109–66 (.623) mark in conference play. The Spartans have won 25 or more games in each of the last four seasons.

"He's a very bright young man. He's very organized," UNC head coach Roy Williams said last week. "We talk a lot together now. We talked, I guess, earlier this week or the end of last week, I guess it was Friday night when he was on the bus going up to East Tennessee State. But he thinks the game very well. He's just done a great, great job. He's already a big-time coach, but he's going to be a big-time coach at a much bigger program one of these days.”

Miller started his playing career at James Madison before deciding to transfer to play for Coach Williams at North Carolina. Miller sat out and redshirted during the 2003-04 season. In 2004-05, Miller played in 24 games and averaged 1.1 points per game. In 2005-06, he played in 31 games and made 16 starts. That season he averaged 7.2 points and 1.9 assists per game while playing 22.6 minutes per contest. He shot 43.8 percent from the field and 44.1 percent from three.

In 2007-08, Miller played in 38 games and averaged 2.5 points and 1.1 assists per game while shooting 33.3 percent from three.

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Coach Candidate: Wes Miller’s UNCG rebuild is exactly what Boston College is looking for - #Coach #Candidate #Wes #Millers #UNCG #rebuild #Boston #College

Coach Wes Miller of UNC Greensboro is a successful mid-major head coach that could be a candidate for Boston College’s men’s basketball head coaching search. He’s in his 10th year as head coach of the UNCG Spartans and has helped bring that program from a bottom-feeder to a conference contender.

Wes Miller has been the head coach of UNC Greensboro since the mid-season of 2011, posting a 185-134 (.580) overall record and a 109-66 (.623) conference record in the Southern Conference. The Spartans had gone an abysmal 22-80 (.216) in the 3.5 seasons leading up to Miller’s tenure. In just 6.5 years he brought them to a conference championship and an NCAA tournament berth in 2018 (in which they pushed #8 Gonzaga to a very close opening round game). In the following 3 years he’s finished in the conference’s top-3 every year and this season he brought them another conference championship and March Madness appearance.

Before his tenure as head coach, Miller was an assistant at UNCG, High Point, and Elon. He also played college basketball at UNC (the ACC one, not UNCG).

Why he’d be interested:

As is the case with most mid-major head coaches, Boston College is a definitive step-up as a program. The resources BC and the ACC offer are of a much greater magnitude than those of UNCG and the Southern Conference. His salary at UNCG is just over $300,000 and Boston College would easily be able to top that as well. He did just sign a 10-year contract with UNCG in 2018, so his commitment to that program may be a hurdle if BC wants to land him.

Why it could work:

Miller has a great experience of bringing a terrible team up to a competitive level, which is exactly what BC needs right now. This rebuild isn’t going to be easy or quick, so BC needs someone with the youth to see it through and the experience of knowing what it takes. Miller is also just 38-years-old, so his youth and energy will be a boon to a program that will undoubtedly have to endure some tough times in the coming seasons. Much like another coaching candidate, Dennis Gates, Wes Miller is a young and hungry leader with the proper experience to lead this program to success.

Why it could flop:

He has very little coaching experience outside of UNCG, and no coaching experience in the P6. He hasn’t been an assistant at major programs or in the NBA, and his recruiting experience has never really dealt with the ACC-level talent that BC needs to recruit and compete with. It’s unclear whether Miller could replicate the great UNCG rebuild at another higher-profile program.

How likely is this hire?

Not likely but certainly possible. He checks most of BC’s boxes and is a fresh young face that could bring the program in a new direction. We haven’t heard anything from the Boston College administration on who they’re vetting, but in public Wes Miller’s name has not come up very often. Twitter hype isn’t a metric to really measure potential coaches, but Miller’s profile is one of the lowest of potential BC candidates.

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Guard Isaiah Miller and UNC Greensboro are seeded 13th in the East Region and will face fourth-seeded Florida State in the first round Saturday in Indianapolis. (Kathy Kmonicek / AP Photo)

Wes Miller will never forget his first trip to the NCAA Tournament as a college basketball coach.

Not necessarily in a good way.

His underdog UNC Greensboro team was on the verge of an iconic first-round upset in 2018 when it led fourth-seeded Gonzaga by a basket with possession of the ball and less than a minute remaining. But the Spartans couldn’t finish the job, losing 68-64 to the defending national runner-up in a game that still haunts the former North Carolina point guard.

“I remember every possession from that game like it was yesterday. I literally remember everything,” Miller said. “That one hurt as bad as any loss I’ve ever experienced because you put yourself in position to win the game and couldn’t quite close it out on that stage, and you felt like your guys worked so hard to get to that moment.”

Even though three years have passed, Miller said he continues to replay the final minutes of that game and what went wrong, even when he’s in the shower.

Like any good coach, though, he’s tried his best to turn the disappointment into a learning experience.

Saturday in Indianapolis, Miller and his 13th-seeded Spartans (21-8) will get a chance to use the lessons gained from their near miss against Gonzaga when they return to the NCAA Tournament to take on another high-profile fourth seed — Florida State in the opening round of this year’s East Regional.

Tipoff is 12:45 p.m. at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, home of the NBA’s Indianapolis Pacers, with the winner taking on either fifth-seeded Colorado or No. 12 Georgetown on the same side of the bracket as top-seeded Michigan.

“The more experience you have in these type of moments, the more you gain from it,” said Miller, who won a national championship as a member of the Tar Heels in 2005. “There was some really good stuff we did to prepare for that game, and I think it gave me some confidence that you can try some things with this much practice time leading up to a tournament game.

“Obviously, I have some regrets about some of those last possessions, and I’ve tried to learn from those as a coach. Isaiah Miller and Kaleb Hunter were on that team, and I think they’ve died to get back to this moment because of how they felt that night in Boise.”

The opportunity is especially meaningful to Isaiah Miller.

A two-time Southern Conference Player of the Year who ranks third on UNCG’s all-time scoring list with 1,950 points, the 6-foot-1 guard played 16 minutes off the bench in the Gonzaga game as a freshman.

Although he and his team have come agonizingly close to getting back to the NCAA Tournament since then — the Spartans were the first team left out of the field in 2019 before having last year’s event canceled by the coronavirus pandemic — this will be his first, and probably last, chance at redemption.

“I’ve been trying to get back to the NCAA Tournament since my freshman year,” Isaiah Miller said in a Selection Sunday Zoom call. “It hasn’t been an easy road. I’ve been through this my freshman year, but we didn’t get past the first round. I am trying to make history.”

The selection committee didn’t do UNCG any favors by matching it against the Seminoles, a team Wes Miller called the best defensive team in the nation. But at least the Spartans were able to get a head start on scouting their first-round opponent thanks to their coach’s connection to UNC and the ACC.

“When we played Gonzaga a few years ago, it felt like you were starting from scratch. It doesn’t feel that way with Florida State,” Wes Miller said. “I watch them all the time. I’ve been a big fan of Leonard Hamilton, so I’ve tried to learn over the years from watching his team play.

“I watched their game a couple nights ago against Carolina, pulling really hard for coach (Roy) Williams, my brother and those guys. And I watched their game (in the ACC Tournament final) in isolation, so I have familiarity.”

Like the Spartans, who start a lineup featuring four upperclassmen, the ACC runner-up Seminoles (16-6) are a veteran team. While they have a size advantage and play an aggressive, physical style, redshirt junior guard Hunter said he and his teammates aren’t worried about being pushed around.

“We’re going to be ready for whoever we play,” he said. “We know Florida State is big, but we can’t control that. The only thing we can control is how we play, and we’ll be scrappy. As long as our names were called, that’s all that mattered. We’re blessed to be in this position.”

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Leonard Hamilton on coaching against Wes Miller, the player: "I remember him vividly" - #Leonard #Hamilton #coaching #Wes #Miller #player #remember #vividly

Leonard Hamilton on coaching against Wes Miller, the player: “I remember him vividly”

Florida State's head coach Leonard Hamilton, left, presents Trent Forrest a basketball in honor of his 1,000 plus points career before an NCAA college basketball game with Boston College Saturday, March 7 2020, in Tallahassee, Fla. Florida State won 80-62. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)

With the 2021 NCAA Tournament on the horizon, Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton rejoins Josh Graham on The Sports Hub Triad (WSJS).

Hamilton and Graham discuss Selection Sunday, Florida State’s rise as a “new blood” program, matching up with UNC Greensboro, coaching against Wes Miller when he played at North Carolina and the impact of freshman star Scottie Barnes.

 

Listen to the full interview with FSU’s Leonard Hamilton

 

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Sean Miller status remains unresolved as Roy Williams retires - #Sean #Miller #status #remains #unresolved #Roy #Williams #retires

Let’s be clear: USC fans should not want Arizona basketball to be great. USC basketball has been able to gain more of a foothold in recent years while Arizona has declined. The Arizona schools have struggled, and the Los Angeles schools are getting stronger. USC does NOT want Arizona to be smart.

However, Trojans Wire is the one Pac-12 college wires site, and accordingly, we will feel the need from time to time to give advice to Pac-12 schools.

Here, we’re going to give some advice to the University of Arizona. The school and president Robert Robbins can ignore this advice, but we’re going to dispense it anyway, because we care about Pac-12 schools.

Here goes: This is the time to get rid of Sean Miller. Cut bait.

Even if North Carolina keeps it “in the family” and doesn’t get a big national name for its next head coach, the retirement of Roy Williams signals a wave of change in the coaching industry.

Williams didn’t want to spend his 70s dealing with a changing college basketball landscape. He is probably not alone.

Lon Kruger of Oklahoma retired at 68 — yes, for family and personal reasons, but the new normal in college basketball probably made his decision easier.

The new normal is a world in which the transfer portal has over 1,000 players and climbing. The new normal is a world in which NIL (name, image and likeness) provisions will make their way into the sport and change the architecture of incentives and motivation for players.

Bob Huggins, John Beilein, Bob McKillop, Jim Boeheim, and other notable coaches in their late 60s or anywhere in their 70s aren’t going to be around too much longer.

Does Arizona want to be the program which tries to stay the course with Sean Miller, but then gets stuck and watches other programs get their splashy new hire of the future, with a coach who is ready and able to handle “the new normal”?

If North Carolina stays “in the family” with Wes Miller or Hubert Davis, maybe Arizona can stand pat for one more season… but if Carolina makes a national hire — meaning (most likely) that another national program has to fill a vacancy — there will be even more churn and transformation in the coaching industry, with a bright coach taking a plum job and making it his home.

Shouldn’t Arizona get the inside track on that kind of coach? Isn’t this the time to realize that Sean Miller’s baggage isn’t worth his upside?

Yes, Sean Miller did a great job on the court through the 2017 season in Tucson, but he didn’t deliver a Final Four and then took massive hits to his reputation and standing in the sport. He is still a good X-and-O coach — that doesn’t go away immediately — but surely other coaches can strategize as well as he can, but without the baggage and with a fresh vision which can energize the Arizona program and fan base.

In addition to Roy Williams’ retirement at North Carolina, Texas just hired former Texas Tech coach Chris Beard. This means some of the coaches Oklahoma was considering are now in play for Texas Tech. Arizona could be missing out on a great candidate… unless it sticks with Miller like a lover who knows a partner has made terribly untrustworthy decisions, but still thinks the partner can be rehabilitated without seeing the proof of real repentance and transformation.

USC fans should hope Arizona stays with Sean Miller… because if the Wildcats were smart, this is exactly the time for them to tell coaching candidates it is ready for the fresh start it so badly needs.

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Could a former UNC basketball player have a shot at the vacant head coaching position at North Carolina?

On April Fool’s Day, news broke that the legendary and beloved UNC basketball head coach Roy Williams would be retiring from coaching.

The news left many fans heart-broken and in hopes that it was all prank, but as media outlets began to thank Coach Williams, it became very real.

And then reality started to sink in even more.

Filling the shoes left by Williams will not be an easy task.  As head coach of North Carolina, Williams won 485 games and made the NCAA Tournament 16 times.  Out of those 16 appearances, Carolina made five Final Fours, four national championship games, and cut the net down three times as national champions. Williams is also a two-time Associated Press Coach of the Year and his name has already been cemented in the Naismith Basketball Hall Of Fame.

The abrupt and shocking news became the top story across the nation, but with Coach Williams stepping down the next question is who will be stepping up?

One candidate to consider is UNCG head coach and former Tar Heels guard Wes Miller, who won a national title with the team in 2005. Miller holds a record of 185-133 in overall play and 109-66 in conference play with the Spartans. Under Miller, the Spartans have won the Southern Conference regular season four times and have appeared in the NCAA Tournament twice.

Many Tar Heel fans have been recruiting for Wes Miller on social media, signifying their desire for Miller to be the next head coach. In a report from ESPN in 2020, Wes Miller was listed as the top college basketball coach under 40. Although Miller has less experience due to his age, do not count him out in the hunt for the UNC’s next head coach.

Expect North Carolina to explore their options with coaches like Hubert Davis as well as Jerry Stackhouse.  Davis, Miller and Stackhouse could get calls to be interviewed and are likely potential candidates early on.

Make sure to check back with Keeping It Heel for all the latest on the search for their next head coach.

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“I always wanted to coach, and so I had this incredible experience playing for a Hall of Fame coach. … What makes him different, to me, is that I didn’t just learn because I was there but because he embraced that I wanted to coach while I was playing,” Miller added. “And he’s embraced that ever since I got done playing.”

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Miller, for his part, has embraced the Carolina Way as taught by Williams. That’s one thing that could make a coaching transition to Miller relatively smooth.

Coach Wes Miller discusses the building of his program at UNCG.

Miller’s UNCG program values defense first and his teams share the ball, run and pressure opponents. That sounds a lot like the Tar Heels under Williams, doesn’t it? Miller also has shown an ability to adapt the Spartans’ playing style to his personnel and a willingness to embrace analytics and the 3-point shot.

It took a few years for Miller to grow from an assistant who took over as interim head coach when Mike Dement resigned in December 2011. The Spartans’ record after his first five seasons was 60-92 overall and 39-46 in the Southern Conference. Since then, Miller’s teams have gone 125-43 overall and 70-20 in the league with two NCAA appearances and two NITs.

One of the sayings Miller has posted prominently on the wall is that UNCG is a “growth program.” He has the numbers to back it up.

Something that Miller’s Spartans haven’t done consistently and that he would have to do nearly every night as North Carolina’s coach is beat teams from Power 5 conferences. In the last five seasons, UNCG is 1-10 against teams from the nation’s top five leagues, including 1-7 against ACC teams.

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“We want people to know who we are, what we are about. We want to clear up a lot of misconception about how we operate, how we live, how we celebrate,” said Bodie Smith. “We also are very interested in bringing more jobs to not only the City of Jackson but to the state”.

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