List of Arizona Wildcats men's basketball head coaches
The following is a list of Arizona Wildcats men's basketball head coaches. The Wildcats have had 18 coaches in their 122-season history. One Arizona coach has been enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: Lute Olson. The current head coach of Arizona Wildcat is Tommy Lloyd.
Key statistics
- Statistics are correct as of the 2025–26 college basketball season.
Bold = leader in each category
Coaches
Coaching awards are only listed if won while the individual was the coach of Arizona.
| No. | Coach | Years at UA |
Total seasons |
Wins-Loss (Win %) | Conf. wins-losses (win %) |
Awards and achievements during tenure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orin A. Kates | 1904–1906 | 2 | 1–0–1 (.750) | -- | |
| 2 | No coach | 1906–1911 | 5 | 10–6 (.625) | -- | |
| 3 | Frank L. Kleeberger | 1911–1912 | 1 | 2–2 (.500) | -- | |
| 4 | Raymond L. Quigley | 1912–1914 | 2 | 10–4 (.714) | -- | |
| 5 | Pop McKale | 1914–1921 | 7 | 49–12 (.803) | -- | |
| 6 | James Pierce | 1921–1923 | 2 | 10–2 (.833) | -- | |
| 7 | Basil Stanley | 1923–1924 | 1 | 31–6 (.838) | -- | |
| 8 | Walter Davis | 1924–1925 | 1 | 7–4 (.636) | -- | |
| 9 | Fred Enke | 1925–1961 | 36 | 509–324 (.611) | 232–138 (.627) | -- |
| 10 | Bruce Larson | 1961–1972 | 11 | 136–148 (.479) | 44–68 (.393) | -- |
| 11 | Fred Snowden | 1972–1982 | 10 | 167–108 (.607) | 82–146 (.360) | • WAC Coach of the Year (1973) |
| 12 | Ben Lindsey | 1982–1983 | 1 | 4–24 (.143) | 1–17 (.056) | -- |
| 13 | Lute Olson†+ | 1983–2007 | 24 | 589–187 (.759) | 327–101 (.764) | • 11 Pac-10 Conference regular season championships • 4 Pac-10 Conference championships •1997 National champions •Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award (2001) •7× Pac-10 Coach of the Year (1986, 1988-89, 1993-94, 1998, 2003) |
| 14 | Jim Rosborough^ | 2000–2001 | interim | 3–2 (.600) | -- | |
| 15 | Kevin O'Neill++ | 2007–2008 | 1 | 19–15 (.559) | 8–10 (.444) | -- |
| 16 | Russ Pennell+++ | 2008–2009 | 1 | 21–14 (.600) | 9–9 (.500) | -- |
| 17 | Sean Miller++++ | 2009–2021 | 12 | 302–109 (.735) | 153–74 (.674) | •Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year (2011, 2014, 2017) • USA Basketball National Co-Coach of the Year (2015) |
| 18 | Tommy Lloyd | 2021–present* | 5 | 146–35 (.807) | 77–21 (.786) | •AP Coach of the Year (2022) •NABC Coach of the Year (2022) •USBWA Coach of the Year (2022) •Pac-12 Coach of the Year (2022) •Big 12 Coach of the Year (2026) • Highest conference winning percentage in program history |
| Totals | 1904–present | 122 | 2,016–1,002–1 (.668) | 992–513 (.659) | -- | |
Source:[1]
| Coach | Appearances | |
|---|---|---|
| National Champions | Lute Olson | 1 |
| Final Four | Lute Olson | 4 |
| Elite Eight | Lute Olson | 3 |
| Sean Miller | 3 | |
| Fred Snowden | 1 | |
| Sweet Sixteen | Lute Olson | 11 |
| Sean Miller | 5 | |
| Tommy Lloyd | 4 | |
| Russ Pennell | 1 |
Notes
* Only intrasquad games were played in 1905–06.
+ Record for the 1999 and 2008 were vacated by NCAA due to NCAA infractions. Actual on-court records was 589-188 for Lute Olson and 19–15 for Kevin O'Neil.
^ Rosborough served as head coach for five games during the 2000–01 campaign while Olson took a leave of absence. Arizona was 28–8 overall and 15–3 in Pac-10 play that season.
++ O'Neill served as interim head coach while Olson missed the season due to a leave of absence.
+++ Pennell served as interim head coach following Olson's retirement in October 2008.
++++ The NCAA vacated 32 wins from the 2016–17 season, and 18 wins from the 2017–18 season as a result of the 2017–18 NCAA men's basketball corruption scandal. The players involved in the scandal played in every game in the 2016–17 & 23 games in the 2017–18 season, resulting in a 9–8 record.[2][3][4]
- An asterisk (*) denotes a season currently in progress.
† – Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
References
- ^ A running total of the number of head coaches.
- ^ The Longhorns played as part of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association from their first years until joining the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1907. Texas led the creation of the Southwest Conference in 1915, which became the Big 12 Conference after a merger in 1997.
- ^ Postseason play involving the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
- ^ NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament appearances since the tournament began in 1939.
- ^ "Arizona 2015-2016 Media Guide History and Records pp. 60" (PDF). arizonaathletics.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 2, 2017.
- ^ "NCAA Career Statistics".
- ^ "2016-17 Arizona Basketball Season".
- ^ "2017-18 Arizona Basketball Season".