Archie Miller

Ryan Joseph "Archie" Miller (born October 30, 1978) is an American men's college basketball coach for the Rhode Island Rams.

Miller played point guard for North Carolina State from 1998 to 2002 and ended his career among the school's leaders in free-throw percentage, three-point field goal percentage, and total three-pointers.

Following high school, Miller played point guard for North Carolina State from 1998 to 2002.

As a senior, he helped lead the Wolfpack to the championship game of the ACC Tournament, and was named to the all-tournament team.

He finished his career there with an 84.6% free-throw percentage, a 42.9 three-point field goal percentage, and 218 three-pointers, which were all marks that ranked in the top 10 in school history.

He graduated from NC State in 2002 with his bachelor's degree in Parks, Recreation and Tourism.

Miller spent time at several programs as an assistant coach, spending a season at Western Kentucky (2003–04), two at NC State (2004–2006), one at Arizona State (2006–07) under former coach Herb Sendek, two at Ohio State (2007–09) under Thad Matta, and two at Arizona (2009–11) under his brother Sean.

Both he and his older brother Sean Miller played for their father, John Miller, a former coach at Blackhawk High School, who went 657–280 in a 35-year coaching career, including 104–29 in the postseason, before retiring in 2005.

He won eight Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League championships, the second most in history, and four Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association titles.

Miller noted how much he learned from his father, saying, "He's really teaching you how to be a coach, and you don't even realize it. He knew what hard work was. He knew what dedication was. He knew what preparation was. He knew how to communicate. It starts to come naturally to you. It's all you do. It's all you're around, and it's all you talk about.”

In addition to his father's connection to the game, Miller's brother, Sean, was a point guard who went on to play the position at Pitt.

Archie views Sean, who is 10 years older, as more of a mentor than a rival.

Sean, then an assistant at North Carolina State University, recruited Archie to play as a point guard.

Sean later also hired Archie as an assistant at Arizona when he got the job in 2009.

“We didn’t grow up in the house together two years apart and the backyard,” Archie said.

“... I basically look at him sort of as the role model, the guy whom to be like, the guy who to call when you need something, the one that helped you get to where you wanted to get to." Miller's sister, Lisa, also played Division I basketball at Toledo and Elon.

From 2011 to 2017, he was the head coach for the University of Dayton and won the conference regular season championship in 2016 and 2017, when he was named the Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year.

While at Arizona, Miller shined as a top recruiter, helping secure Arizona's top 10 recruiting class for 2011 recruits.

He also excelled as a game strategist and designed the Wildcats' upset of eighth-ranked Texas to get them to the Sweet 16.

Miller became the head coach of the Dayton Flyers men's basketball team in 2011 and turned around a program that had back-to-back disappointing seasons.

His first season with Dayton saw Miller take the school to 20 wins.

The Flyers' 78 wins in from 2013–16 matched the best three-year period in school history.

In his third year, 2014, he had the Flyers in the Elite Eight with 26 wins; to get there, Dayton upset three higher seeded teams.

After the Elite Eight run in 2014, Miller faced replacing three starters and four seniors from that team.

Despite having a depleted roster featuring just six players who were recruited to Dayton and no active player taller than 6-foot-6, Miller led his Flyers to a 27–9 overall record and to the third round of the 2015 NCAA tournament.

In the following three seasons, Miller averaged over 25 wins and each year coached the team made to the NCAA tournament.

The latter two the Flyers also earned regular season Atlantic 10 champion titles.

Due to his coaching abilities, Miller was named a finalist for the 2015 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award.

In April, 2015, he joined his father and brother in the Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame.

He left Dayton to be the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers in 2017, but was relieved of his duties after only four seasons following the conclusion of the 2020–2021 season.

After not coaching a team during the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, he was named the head coach of the Rhode Island Rams men's basketball team on March 18, 2022.

Miller was born and raised in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, just northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

His given name is "Ryan" but garnered the nickname "Archie" at an early age due to his personality being similar to that of Archie Bunker, the grouchy TV character from All in the Family.

Miller grew up in a basketball family.

On March 27, 2017, Miller was named the 29th head coach in the history of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team.

Miller's first season involved rebuilding the program and laying the foundation of a pack-line defense and valuing possessions.

Early in the season, Miller stated practices were 75% defense and 25% offense.

With an early second round loss in the 2018 Big Ten tournament and no invitation to either the NCAA tournament or NIT, Indiana's first season under their new coach came to a disappointing close with an overall record of 16–15 and 9–9 in the Big Ten.

Nevertheless, Miller got off to an impressive recruiting start, including the commitment of five star recruit Romeo Langford, a McDonald's-All American, 2018 Indiana Mr. Basketball, and (according to ESPN) the six ranked player in the nation.

Despite getting off to a strong start of 12–2, including three conference wins, the 2018–19 Hoosiers struggled down the backstretch of the season.