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Dan Miller

Dan Miller

Dan Miller was named head men’s basketball coach at LeTourneau University in 2014-15. He spent seven years at the helm of the program before departing LeTourneau for San Marcos ISD prior to the 2021-22 season.

In seven years, Miller guided the YellowJackets to three 20-win seasons and two NCAA Division III Tournaments. Miller has twice been named American Southwest Conference East Division Coach of the Year (2016-17 and 2017-18), and was named National Association of Basketball Coaches South Region Coach of the Year in 2018. His teams have gone 110-64 at LeTourneau.

In a pause-centered 2020-21 season, Miller's team went 7-4 overall, 5-3 in the conference. The YellowJackets advanced to the ASC quarterfinals, marking the sixth straight year they qualified for the league tournament. Deonte Jackson was named the ASC East co-Freshman of the Year. He also became just the third freshman in league history to earn First Team All-ASC honors. Andrew Eberhardt was named a Second Team All-ASC East selection. Kyle Matthews was named to the ASC East All-Defensive Team. John Argue earned Honorable Mention All-ASC East honors. Isaac Stolzenburg and Jackson were ASC East All-Freshman selections. The YellowJackets played five Division I programs, including NCAA Tournament qualifier Texas Southern, Rice, Sam Houston State, Stephen F. Austin State and the University of New Mexico, in exhibition games.  

In 2019-20, Miller guided the YellowJackets to a 23-6 season, which included the program's first ASC Championship Tournament title and a trip to the NCAA Tournament. The YellowJackets' 23 wins were the second most in school history. Miller won his 100th game at LeTourneau during the season. Nate West broke the ASC career and season scoring marks, while also setting conference and school records in three-point field goals, triple-doubles, assists and steals. West was a unanimous selection as the NCAA Division III National Player of the Year. West also earned South Region honors, and was named the ASC East Division Player of the Year. Four YellowJackets earned All-ASC honors. West led the nation in assists. The YellowJackets received 16 votes in the D3hoops.com Top 25 national poll. 

In 2018-19, LeTourneau finished second in the ASC East, a game behind Texas-Dallas. The YellowJackets went 17-9 overall, 11-5 in the ASC. LETU was 10-3 inside Solheim Arena. During the year, the Jackets met three NCAA Tournament teams, which included perennial powerhouse Whitman University, 2019 NCAA Division III Final Four participant Wheaton College, and Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference champion Texas Lutheran University. Four YellowJacket earned All-ASC East Division honors which included All-ASC selection Nate West and ASC East Defensive Player of the Year Caleb Loggins. West also earned D3hoops.com First Team All-South Region and NABC Second Team All-South District honors. 

A record-setting season in 2017-18 saw LETU win a school-record 24 games and earn the program's first NCAA Division III Tournament appearance. Miller led the YellowJackets to a second consecutive ASC East regular-season title while finishing 16-2 in the ASC. In the NCAA Tournament, LETU beat Hanover College, 85-77, before losing to No. 6 Emory University, 83-82, in the Round of 32. LETU finished the season ranked third in the NCAA Division III South Region, and earned votes in the D3hoops.com poll for the first time in school history. 

The 2016-17 saw Miller guide the YellowJackets to a 22-6 overall record and an ASC East Division championship. In addition to the 22 wins, the 2016-17 YellowJackets also set school records for the longest winning streak (12), first two ASC Tournament wins, and first ever NCAA Regional Ranking (4th). With their ASC East championship, the YellowJackets earned the right to host the 2017 ASC Tournament. LETU defeated Sul Ross State and Concordia University before falling to Hardin-Simmons in the league championship game.  

Miller led LeTourneau back to the ASC Tournament in his second season for the first time since the 2012-13 season and fourth time in program history. The 2015-16 YellowJackets posted 12 wins, the program's most wins since the 2008-09 campaign. The YellowJackets compiled an 8-7 record in the ASC and led the conference in assist-to-turnover ratio, while averaging nearly 80 points per game. One of the eight wins in the ASC was at Mary Hardin-Baylor, the first win in Belton in program history. Three YellowJackets, Jeff Martin (First Team), Alec Colhoff and CJ Edwards (Second Team), earned All-ASC East honors for the most individual honorees in a season in program history. Freshman Caleb Loggins became the first LETU honoree as the ASC East Freshman of the Year since 2005-06, and Martin was the third YellowJacket to be selected as the ASC East Newcomer of the Year. Loggins and fellow freshman Christian Seidl were named to the ASC East All-Freshman Team.

In 2014-15, Miller and his staff teamed up with 12 newcomers for a promising first season in Longview. The YellowJackets forced opponents into 14.6 turnovers per game, and held opponents to 74.8 points per game. The young team brought an exciting brand of basketball to Solheim Arena with an increase of 100 fans per game from 2013-14. The Jackets fell a game short of making the ASC Tournament.  

Away from the court, Miller has brought along new corporate partnerships with Raising Cane's, Jimmy John's, Papa John's, Sleep Inn, Fairfield Inn, Slim Chickens and Whataburger of East Texas for the athletic department.

Miller came to LETU after a successful career as a collegiate assistant and as a head high school boys basketball coach at Seven Lakes High School in Katy, Texas. After a stint as an assistant at the University of Southwest Minnesota from 2003-04 under head coach Greg Stemen, Miller built the program from scratch at Seven Lakes. In his nine years with the Spartans, he posted a 218-70 overall record, winning four district titles, three 30-plus win seasons, two regional appearances and seven straight playoff appearances. The two regional appearances and seven consecutive playoff appearances was unprecedented in Katy Intermediate School District. 

The high school program developed by Miller at Seven Lakes produced 32 of a possible 43 district titles among the five teams. Thirteen of Miller's former student-athletes continued their basketball skills on the collegiate level, including six on the NCAA Division I level. 

Miller was named the District 19-5A Coach of the Year on four occasions, the Katy ISD All Sports Coach of the Year in 2010, and was selected to coach the 2012 All-Star Game by the Houston Area Basketball Coaches Association.

Miller is a 2000 graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato, and has a master's in education degree from Lamar University. The Brillion, Wisconsin native, wife, Monica, and three children, daughter, Kayla, and sons, Kyren, and Kayden, reside in Longview.