Report: Texas set to hire Sean Miller as next head coach

Xavier head coach Sean Miller is set to be hired as Texas‘ next head men’s basketball coach, according to the Austin American-Statesman columnist Cedric Golden. CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander confirmed the news shortly after Golden.

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

The 56-year-old Miller replaces Rodney Terry as the Longhorns’ headman after Terry was formally fired earlier Sunday morning.

Miller heads to Texas after three seasons in his second stint at Xavier, going 65-40 over the past three seasons, including a Sweet Sixteen run in 2022-23 and a Round of 64 loss to sixth-seeded Illinois that followed an 86-80 win over Terry’s Longhorns in an 11th-seeded play-in game Thursday in Dayton.

Miller had a combined 185-87 record over eight total seasons across two separate stints leading the Musketeers, which bookended a 12-year run (2009-21) at Arizona in which the Wildcats went 302-109, including three Elite Eight runs in 2011, 2014 and 2015. Arizona also had two Sweet Sixteen runs in 2013 and 2017, though the Wildcats’ were forced to vacate 50 total wins across the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons stemming from Miller’s alleged involvement in the NCAA’s 2019 corruption scandal.

Following the “First Four” loss to Xavier on Thursday, Terry finished 62-37 (.626) in what amounted to roughly two and 2/3rds seasons as the Texas’ coach after serving as interim coach for most of the 2022-23 season following the early-season departure of then-head coach Chris Beard after his since-dismissed domestic violence arrest in mid-December 2022.

This report will be updated.

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