Men's Basketball
Miller, Archie
Archie Miller
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- mbasket@indiana.edu
- Phone:
- (812) 855-2238
• Named the 29th head coach of the Indiana Men’s Basketball program on March 25, 2017, by Indiana University Vice President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass.
• Miller has delivered on his promise to build the program from the inside out, with nine Hoosier natives in his first three recruiting classes including Indiana Mr. Basketball winners Romeo Langford (2018), Trayce Jackson-Davis (2019) and Anthony Leal (2020). Langford and Jackson-Davis were named McDonald’s All-Americans and Khristian Lander earned All-American honors from MaxPreps in 2020. The 2020 recruiting class was ranked 13th in the country
• Last season, Indiana finished 20-12 and was poised to return to the NCAA Tournament before the COVID-19 Pandemic hit. The Hoosiers also finished with a winning record against nationally ranked teams with five victories including wins over Florida State, Ohio State, Michigan State, Penn State and Iowa, which was tied for 7th most in the country. IU also improved to 26th in the country in adjusted defense according to KenPom. The team also posted a 3.398 grade point average in the spring semester.
• IU also led the Big Ten in free throw attempts and defensive rebounding percentage. Freshman Trayce Jackson-Davis was named third team All-Big Ten by the coaches and media and also selected to the All-Freshman team and was just one of four freshman nationally to lead his team in scoring, rebounds, field goal percentage, free throws made and free throws attempted and blocked shots. In the Big Ten, Jackson-Davis was the top freshman scorer overall and led first-year players in field goal percentage and blocked shots.
• In addition, Langford, who was a lottery pick by the Boston Celtics and Juwan Morgan who earned a contract with the Utah Jazz, both began their NBA careers.
• In 2018-19, the Hoosiers earned their first national ranking under Miller and were rated as high as 21st in the country in early January. IU earned nationally ranked wins over Michigan State (twice), Marquette (Gavitt Games) and Wisconsin and notched triumphs against Louisville and Butler (Crossroads Classic).
• IU finished with 19 wins and won two post season games in the NIT. Morgan and Langford would go on to earn All-Big Ten honors and Langford was named to the USBWA All-District team. Morgan would finish his career 24th on the IU all-time scoring list and also finished eighth in career blocks and 10th in career rebounds. The Hoosiers also improved to 32nd in adjusted defense after finishing 65th in 2017-18. IU also finished 36th in the country in blocked shots.
• In his first season at IU, Miller saw the Hoosiers improve dramatically. After seeing IU allow 76 points per game on 45.9 percent shooting and 41.7 percent accuracy from 3-point range in the month of November, IU limited teams to 65.4 points on 41.3 percent shooting from the floor and 33.1 percent from long distance in the month of February.
• IU posted a two-win improvement in the Big Ten from 2016-17 to 2017-18.
• He saw junior forward Juwan Morgan emerge as the most improved player in the Big Ten adding more than 10 points per game scoring in Big Ten play during the 2017-18 season. Morgan earned second-team All-Big Ten honors and was named All-District by the USBWA and NABC in 2018. Senior Rob Johnson averaged a career-best 14.0 points per game earned honorable mention All-Big-Ten honors his senior year.
• In three seasons, he is 55-43.
• Regarded as one of the top young coaches in the country, Miller is a tireless recruiter, noted developer of talent, and a gifted tactician whose teams are known for their stout defense and efficient offense. His 2018 recruiting class at IU was ranked 7th in the nation after a successful haul of players from the Big Ten footprint.
• The 41-year old native of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, came to IU after serving six seasons as head coach at the University of Dayton, where he won Atlantic 10 Conference regular season championships in 2016 and 2017.
• He guided the Flyers to a 139-63 record (69.8) and a 68-34 mark (66.7) in the Atlantic 10. He took Dayton to the NCAA Tournament each of the last four years with the Flyers advancing to the Elite Eight in the 2014 Tournament. UD was nationally ranked in three of Miller’s six seasons (2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16).
• During their elite eight run, UD topped Ohio State (60-59), Syracuse (55-53) and Stanford (82-72) before falling to Florida (62-52) in the regional finals. In 2015, they defeated Boise State (56-55) and Providence (66-53) and were eliminated by Oklahoma (72-66) in the Sweet Sixteen. In 2016, they were defeated by Final Four participant Syracuse (70-51) in the second round and by Wichita State (64-58) in their first tournament game this season.
• Miller is one of five active coaches who had at least five NCAA wins in his first four seasons. The others are Mark Few, Thad Matta, Shaka Smart and Roy Williams. With three NCAA wins in 2014 and another two in 2015, Dayton was one of just six teams to have at least five NCAA tournament wins in those two years. The others were Arizona, UConn, Kentucky, Michigan State and Wisconsin.
• For his efforts during the 2016-17 season, he was named Atlantic 10 and NABC District Coach of the Year. He led UD to perform at a championship level despite playing a 2016-17 campaign where the team’s top six scorers missed a total of 32 games during the year due to injury. He also was a finalist for the 2015 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award.
• He comes from a family of coaches with his father, John, having guided Archie and his brother Sean at Blackhawk High School in Beaver Falls. His brother Sean has been the head coach at the University of Arizona and also was the head coach at Xavier University. John was one of the country’s top high school coaches when he retired in 2005, with 657 wins in a 35-year coaching career. Archie, Sean and their sister Lisa all played Division I college basketball.
• Miller is regarded as a top recruiter – Arizona’s 2011 recruits were a Top 10 class – and game strategist – he was the architect of the Wildcats upset of eighth-ranked Texas to get them to the Sweet 16. He was reunited with his brother during the summer of 2015 on the coaching staff of USA Basketball’s U19 World Championship. When Sean was elevated to the team’s head coach, he turned to his brother to help USA basketball win the gold at the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship that was held June 27-July 5 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
• He was a four-year letterwinner at North Carolina State from 1998-2002. A point guard, he is currently third at NC State in career FT% (.846, 165-195), sixth in career 3-pt. FG% (.429, 218-509), and fourth in career threes (218). As a senior, he helped lead the Wolfpack to the finals of the ACC championship game and was named to the all-tournament team. That season was coach Herb Sendek’s first NCAA team at NC State.
• As an assistant, Miller coached in the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC, where he honed his craft under some of the most respected coaches in the country. He began his coaching career at NC State, serving as a coaching intern under Sendek in 2002-03. Miller then went to Western Kentucky as a full-time member of Darrin Horn’s staff for one season. He returned to NC State, first as Director of Basketball Operations (2004-05), and then as a full-time assistant coach (2005-06). When Sendek went to Arizona State in 2006-07, Miller remained on his coaching staff before joining Thad Matta at Ohio State for two seasons (2007-09). As a coach, he has been part of 20-plus win and NCAA seasons at NC State (2005-06), Ohio State (2008-09), Arizona (2010-11), and Dayton (2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17).
• In April, 2015, he joined his father and brother in the Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame. Other greats in the Beaver County Hall include Mike Ditka, Tony Dorsett, Terry Francona, Pete and Press Maravich, Joe Namath, Babe Parilli and Norm Van Lier.
• Miller earned his bachelor’s degree in Parks, Recreation and Tourism from NC State in 2002. He was born October 30, 1978. He is married to the former Morgan Nicole Cruse and they have a 15-year old daughter, Leah.
Head Coaching Career
Overall Conf. Conf. Finish Postseason
2011-12 Dayton 20-13 9-7 T-5th NIT First Round
2012-13 Dayton 17-14 7-9 T-11th
2013-14 Dayton 26-11 10-6 T-5th NCAA Regional Final
2014-15 Dayton 27-9 13-5 T-2nd NCAA Third Round
2015-16 Dayton 25-8 14-4 T-1st NCAA Second Round
2016-17 Dayton 24-8 15-3 1st NCAA First Round
2017-18 Indiana 16-15 9-9 T6th
(.647) (.599)
Assistant Coaching Career
2005-06 NC State 22-10 10-6 4th NCAA Second Round
2006-07 Arizona State 8-22 2-16 10th
2007-08 Ohio State 24-13 10-8 5th NIT Champions
2008-09 Ohio State 22-11 10-8 5th NCAA First Round
2009-10 Arizona 16-15 10-8 4th
2010-11 Arizona 30-8 14-4 1st NCAA Elite Eight
Indiana Player Accolades
2020 Third Team All-Big Ten - Coaches and Media (Jackson-Davis)
2020 Big Ten All-Freshman Team - Coaches (Jackson-Davis)
2020 Academic All-Big Ten (Adrian Chapman)
2019 USBWA All-District Team (Langford)
2019 Associated Press All-Big Ten Second Team (Langford)
2019 Second Team All-Big Ten - Coaches (Romeo Langford)
2019 Big Ten All-Freshman Team - Coaches (Langford)
2019 Third Team All-Big Ten - Media (Langford, Morgan)
2019 Honorable Mention All-Big Ten - Coaches (Juwan Morgan)
2019 Academic All-Big Ten (5 - Vijay Blackmon, Zach McRoberts, Johnny Jager, Quentin Taylor, Justin Smith)
2018 NABC District 4 Second Team (Morgan)
2018 USBWA All-District (Morgan)
2018 Second-Team All-Big Ten (Morgan)
2018 Honorable Mention All-Big Ten (Robert Johnson)
2018 Academic All-Big Ten (Johnny Jager, Zach McRoberts, Quentin Taylor)
Dayton Player Accolades
2017 NABC District 4 Second Team (Charles Cooke, Scoochie Smith)
2016 NABC District 4 First Team (Charles Cooke)
2016 NABC District 4 Second Team (Dyshawn Pierre)
2015 NABC District 4 First Team (Jordan Sibert)
2015 NABC District Second Team (Pierre)
2012 NABC All-District Second Team (Kevin Dillard)
2017 A-10 Sixth Man of the Year (Kyle Davis)
2017 First Team All-Atlantic 10 (Smith)
2017 Second Team All-Atlantic 10 (Cooke)
2017 Third Team All-Atlantic 10 (Pollard)
2017 A-10 All-Defensive team (Cooke, Davis)
2016 First Team All-Atlantic 10 (Cooke)
2016 Second Team All-Atlantic 10 (Pierre)
2016 A-10 All-Defensive team (Cooke)
2016 A-10 All-Tournament team (Pierre)
2015 First Team All-Atlantic 10 (Sibert)
2015 Second Team All-Atlantic 10 (Pierre)
2015 Chris Daniels A-10 Most Improved Player Award (Kendall Pollard)
2014 Third Team All-Atlantic 10 (Devin Oliver)
2013 Second Team All-Atlantic 10 (Dillard)
2012 Second Team All-Atlantic 10 (Dillard)
• Miller has delivered on his promise to build the program from the inside out, with nine Hoosier natives in his first three recruiting classes including Indiana Mr. Basketball winners Romeo Langford (2018), Trayce Jackson-Davis (2019) and Anthony Leal (2020). Langford and Jackson-Davis were named McDonald’s All-Americans and Khristian Lander earned All-American honors from MaxPreps in 2020. The 2020 recruiting class was ranked 13th in the country
• Last season, Indiana finished 20-12 and was poised to return to the NCAA Tournament before the COVID-19 Pandemic hit. The Hoosiers also finished with a winning record against nationally ranked teams with five victories including wins over Florida State, Ohio State, Michigan State, Penn State and Iowa, which was tied for 7th most in the country. IU also improved to 26th in the country in adjusted defense according to KenPom. The team also posted a 3.398 grade point average in the spring semester.
• IU also led the Big Ten in free throw attempts and defensive rebounding percentage. Freshman Trayce Jackson-Davis was named third team All-Big Ten by the coaches and media and also selected to the All-Freshman team and was just one of four freshman nationally to lead his team in scoring, rebounds, field goal percentage, free throws made and free throws attempted and blocked shots. In the Big Ten, Jackson-Davis was the top freshman scorer overall and led first-year players in field goal percentage and blocked shots.
• In addition, Langford, who was a lottery pick by the Boston Celtics and Juwan Morgan who earned a contract with the Utah Jazz, both began their NBA careers.
• In 2018-19, the Hoosiers earned their first national ranking under Miller and were rated as high as 21st in the country in early January. IU earned nationally ranked wins over Michigan State (twice), Marquette (Gavitt Games) and Wisconsin and notched triumphs against Louisville and Butler (Crossroads Classic).
• IU finished with 19 wins and won two post season games in the NIT. Morgan and Langford would go on to earn All-Big Ten honors and Langford was named to the USBWA All-District team. Morgan would finish his career 24th on the IU all-time scoring list and also finished eighth in career blocks and 10th in career rebounds. The Hoosiers also improved to 32nd in adjusted defense after finishing 65th in 2017-18. IU also finished 36th in the country in blocked shots.
• In his first season at IU, Miller saw the Hoosiers improve dramatically. After seeing IU allow 76 points per game on 45.9 percent shooting and 41.7 percent accuracy from 3-point range in the month of November, IU limited teams to 65.4 points on 41.3 percent shooting from the floor and 33.1 percent from long distance in the month of February.
• IU posted a two-win improvement in the Big Ten from 2016-17 to 2017-18.
• He saw junior forward Juwan Morgan emerge as the most improved player in the Big Ten adding more than 10 points per game scoring in Big Ten play during the 2017-18 season. Morgan earned second-team All-Big Ten honors and was named All-District by the USBWA and NABC in 2018. Senior Rob Johnson averaged a career-best 14.0 points per game earned honorable mention All-Big-Ten honors his senior year.
• In three seasons, he is 55-43.
• Regarded as one of the top young coaches in the country, Miller is a tireless recruiter, noted developer of talent, and a gifted tactician whose teams are known for their stout defense and efficient offense. His 2018 recruiting class at IU was ranked 7th in the nation after a successful haul of players from the Big Ten footprint.
• The 41-year old native of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, came to IU after serving six seasons as head coach at the University of Dayton, where he won Atlantic 10 Conference regular season championships in 2016 and 2017.
• He guided the Flyers to a 139-63 record (69.8) and a 68-34 mark (66.7) in the Atlantic 10. He took Dayton to the NCAA Tournament each of the last four years with the Flyers advancing to the Elite Eight in the 2014 Tournament. UD was nationally ranked in three of Miller’s six seasons (2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16).
• During their elite eight run, UD topped Ohio State (60-59), Syracuse (55-53) and Stanford (82-72) before falling to Florida (62-52) in the regional finals. In 2015, they defeated Boise State (56-55) and Providence (66-53) and were eliminated by Oklahoma (72-66) in the Sweet Sixteen. In 2016, they were defeated by Final Four participant Syracuse (70-51) in the second round and by Wichita State (64-58) in their first tournament game this season.
• Miller is one of five active coaches who had at least five NCAA wins in his first four seasons. The others are Mark Few, Thad Matta, Shaka Smart and Roy Williams. With three NCAA wins in 2014 and another two in 2015, Dayton was one of just six teams to have at least five NCAA tournament wins in those two years. The others were Arizona, UConn, Kentucky, Michigan State and Wisconsin.
• For his efforts during the 2016-17 season, he was named Atlantic 10 and NABC District Coach of the Year. He led UD to perform at a championship level despite playing a 2016-17 campaign where the team’s top six scorers missed a total of 32 games during the year due to injury. He also was a finalist for the 2015 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award.
• He comes from a family of coaches with his father, John, having guided Archie and his brother Sean at Blackhawk High School in Beaver Falls. His brother Sean has been the head coach at the University of Arizona and also was the head coach at Xavier University. John was one of the country’s top high school coaches when he retired in 2005, with 657 wins in a 35-year coaching career. Archie, Sean and their sister Lisa all played Division I college basketball.
• Miller is regarded as a top recruiter – Arizona’s 2011 recruits were a Top 10 class – and game strategist – he was the architect of the Wildcats upset of eighth-ranked Texas to get them to the Sweet 16. He was reunited with his brother during the summer of 2015 on the coaching staff of USA Basketball’s U19 World Championship. When Sean was elevated to the team’s head coach, he turned to his brother to help USA basketball win the gold at the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship that was held June 27-July 5 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
• He was a four-year letterwinner at North Carolina State from 1998-2002. A point guard, he is currently third at NC State in career FT% (.846, 165-195), sixth in career 3-pt. FG% (.429, 218-509), and fourth in career threes (218). As a senior, he helped lead the Wolfpack to the finals of the ACC championship game and was named to the all-tournament team. That season was coach Herb Sendek’s first NCAA team at NC State.
• As an assistant, Miller coached in the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC, where he honed his craft under some of the most respected coaches in the country. He began his coaching career at NC State, serving as a coaching intern under Sendek in 2002-03. Miller then went to Western Kentucky as a full-time member of Darrin Horn’s staff for one season. He returned to NC State, first as Director of Basketball Operations (2004-05), and then as a full-time assistant coach (2005-06). When Sendek went to Arizona State in 2006-07, Miller remained on his coaching staff before joining Thad Matta at Ohio State for two seasons (2007-09). As a coach, he has been part of 20-plus win and NCAA seasons at NC State (2005-06), Ohio State (2008-09), Arizona (2010-11), and Dayton (2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17).
• In April, 2015, he joined his father and brother in the Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame. Other greats in the Beaver County Hall include Mike Ditka, Tony Dorsett, Terry Francona, Pete and Press Maravich, Joe Namath, Babe Parilli and Norm Van Lier.
• Miller earned his bachelor’s degree in Parks, Recreation and Tourism from NC State in 2002. He was born October 30, 1978. He is married to the former Morgan Nicole Cruse and they have a 15-year old daughter, Leah.
Head Coaching Career
Overall Conf. Conf. Finish Postseason
2011-12 Dayton 20-13 9-7 T-5th NIT First Round
2012-13 Dayton 17-14 7-9 T-11th
2013-14 Dayton 26-11 10-6 T-5th NCAA Regional Final
2014-15 Dayton 27-9 13-5 T-2nd NCAA Third Round
2015-16 Dayton 25-8 14-4 T-1st NCAA Second Round
2016-17 Dayton 24-8 15-3 1st NCAA First Round
2017-18 Indiana 16-15 9-9 T6th
2018-19 Indiana 19-16 8-12 T8th NIT Quarterfinals
2019-20 Indiana 20-12 9-11 T10th N/A due to COVID-19
Totals 8 seasons 194-106 94-632019-20 Indiana 20-12 9-11 T10th N/A due to COVID-19
(.647) (.599)
Assistant Coaching Career
2005-06 NC State 22-10 10-6 4th NCAA Second Round
2006-07 Arizona State 8-22 2-16 10th
2007-08 Ohio State 24-13 10-8 5th NIT Champions
2008-09 Ohio State 22-11 10-8 5th NCAA First Round
2009-10 Arizona 16-15 10-8 4th
2010-11 Arizona 30-8 14-4 1st NCAA Elite Eight
Indiana Player Accolades
2020 Third Team All-Big Ten - Coaches and Media (Jackson-Davis)
2020 Big Ten All-Freshman Team - Coaches (Jackson-Davis)
2020 Academic All-Big Ten (Adrian Chapman)
2019 USBWA All-District Team (Langford)
2019 Associated Press All-Big Ten Second Team (Langford)
2019 Second Team All-Big Ten - Coaches (Romeo Langford)
2019 Big Ten All-Freshman Team - Coaches (Langford)
2019 Third Team All-Big Ten - Media (Langford, Morgan)
2019 Honorable Mention All-Big Ten - Coaches (Juwan Morgan)
2019 Academic All-Big Ten (5 - Vijay Blackmon, Zach McRoberts, Johnny Jager, Quentin Taylor, Justin Smith)
2018 NABC District 4 Second Team (Morgan)
2018 USBWA All-District (Morgan)
2018 Second-Team All-Big Ten (Morgan)
2018 Honorable Mention All-Big Ten (Robert Johnson)
2018 Academic All-Big Ten (Johnny Jager, Zach McRoberts, Quentin Taylor)
Dayton Player Accolades
2017 NABC District 4 Second Team (Charles Cooke, Scoochie Smith)
2016 NABC District 4 First Team (Charles Cooke)
2016 NABC District 4 Second Team (Dyshawn Pierre)
2015 NABC District 4 First Team (Jordan Sibert)
2015 NABC District Second Team (Pierre)
2012 NABC All-District Second Team (Kevin Dillard)
2017 A-10 Sixth Man of the Year (Kyle Davis)
2017 First Team All-Atlantic 10 (Smith)
2017 Second Team All-Atlantic 10 (Cooke)
2017 Third Team All-Atlantic 10 (Pollard)
2017 A-10 All-Defensive team (Cooke, Davis)
2016 First Team All-Atlantic 10 (Cooke)
2016 Second Team All-Atlantic 10 (Pierre)
2016 A-10 All-Defensive team (Cooke)
2016 A-10 All-Tournament team (Pierre)
2015 First Team All-Atlantic 10 (Sibert)
2015 Second Team All-Atlantic 10 (Pierre)
2015 Chris Daniels A-10 Most Improved Player Award (Kendall Pollard)
2014 Third Team All-Atlantic 10 (Devin Oliver)
2013 Second Team All-Atlantic 10 (Dillard)
2012 Second Team All-Atlantic 10 (Dillard)
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