Cincinnati announced Wednesday that it has hired former UNC Greensboro coach Wes Miller as its next men’s basketball head coach.
The school said in a statement that Miller will receive a six-year contract.
Miller has been to the UNCG for 10 seasons. For the past five seasons, he has led the Spartans to three regular-season championships and two NCAA appearances. UNCG 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 and excited program to get to work,” Miller said in a statement. “Also, I can’t thank UNCG enough because I wouldn’t be here without my players and athletic director Kim Record. The last decade that coached the Spartans was extremely satisfying.”
Last season, the Spartans won both the regular season and conference tournament titles in SoCon, before falling to Florida, with 4 seeds, in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Miller, 38, was one of the top candidates for the North Carolina head coach vacancy earlier this month, before Tar Heels decided to hire Hubert Davis to replace Roy Williams. Born in North Carolina, Miller played under Williams in Chapel Hill. He began his coaching 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 put Brannen on leave in early April, after six players entered the transfer portal in the first three days after the end of the season.