List of Miami Hurricanes men's basketball head coaches

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The Miami Hurricanes men's basketball represent the University of Miami in the Atlantic Coast Conference in Division I of the NCAA. They have played their home games at the BankUnited Center since 2003. The program's first squad played in 1926.[1] From 1971 through 1985, the men's basketball program was suspended due to lack of adequate funding.[2] The program reached has reached the NCAA Tournament seven times, most recently in 2013.

Overall, there have been 12 head coaches for the Miami Hurricanes, five since the revival of the program in 1985 with Bill Foster. Bruce Hale, who led the Hurricanes to its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1960, is the school's all-time leader in games coached and wins. Leonard Hamilton was named UPI National Coach of the Year in 1995. Jim Larranaga is the current coach of the Hurricanes and was named the AP Coach of the Year in 2013. [3]

Key

GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
Win% Winning percentage
# Number of coaches[a]
* Spent entire head coaching career with the Miami Hurricanes
dagger University of Miami men's basketball program on hiatus from 1971–72 to 1984–85

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2014-15 season.

# Name Term GC W L Win% Achievements Reference
1 Art Webb* 1926–1928, 1930–1931 30 18 12 .600
2 Tom McCann* 1928–1929, 1931–1932 37 30 7 .811
3 Hart Morris* 1938–1942, 1946–1952 201 119 82 .592 [4]
4 W.H. Steers* 1945–1946 13 8 5 .615
5 Dave Wike* 1952–1954 36 14 22 .389 [5]
6 Bruce Hale 1954–1967 332 220 112 .663 [6]
7 Ron Godfrey* 1967–1971 104 47 57 .452 [7]
Nonedagger 1971–1985
8 Bill Foster 1985–1990 149 78 71 .523 [8]
9 Leonard Hamilton 1990–2000 291 144 147 .495 Big East Coach of the Year (1995,1999); UPI National Coach of the Year (1995) [9]
10 Perry Clark 2000–2004 119 65 54 .546 [10]
11 Frank Haith 2004–2011 230 129 101 .561 [11]
12 Jim Larranaga 2011–present 140 91 49 .650 AP Coach of the Year (2013) [12]

Notes

  • a A running total of the number of coaches of the Hurricanes. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.

References

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