Cincinnati announced Wednesday that it has hired former UNC Greensboro coach Wes Miller as the next men’s basketball coach.
The school said in a statement that Miller will get a six-year contract.
Miller has been at UNCG for 10 seasons. For the past five seasons, he has led the Spartans to three regular season championships and two appearances in NCAA tournaments. UNCG has finished 13-5 or better in the Southern Conference in each of the last five seasons.
“I am honored to lead such a well-known program and I am delighted to begin work,” Miller said in a statement. “I also can’t thank the UNCG enough because it wouldn’t be here without my players and athletic director Kim Record. This last decade coaching the Spartans has been extremely rewarding.”
Last season, the Spartans won both regular season and conference tournament titles at SoCon before falling to the 4-league state of Florida in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Miller, 38, was one of the top candidates for the North Carolina head coaching vacancy earlier this month before the Tar Heels decided to hire Hubert Davis to replace Roy Williams. A native of North Carolina, Miller played under Williams under Chapel Hill. He began his career as an assistant coach at Elon and High Point before moving to UNC Greensboro as an assistant coach in 2010. He was promoted to head coach a year later.
Miller replaces John Brannen, who was fired last week after two seasons following an investigation into the program. The school left Brannen on leave in early April after six players entered the transfer portal the first three days after the end of the season.