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2019 WBCA Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater head men's basketball coach
Pat Miller will be inducted as a member of the 2019 Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame on September 28 at Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells.
Miller has led the Warhawks to two national championships (2012, 2014), six Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference regular season titles and four league tournament championships. He owns a 386-123 record in his 18 years at the helm.
Miller entered the 2018-19 season ranked third among Division III coaches all time in winning percentage and 25th in all NCAA divisions. He was fifth among active Division III coaches and 15th among all active NCAA coaches in winning percentage entering the year.
Miller is a two-time National Coach of the Year, three-time WBCA Division III College Coach of the Year and four-time WIAC Coach of the Year. He is the third-fastest in conference history to reach the 300-win plateau.
Miller also won a national championship as a student-athlete at UW-Whitewater, serving as co-captain of the 1989 team. He averaged 16.6 points and shot 48 percent from 3-point range during the 1988-89 season, when he was also named WIAC Men's Basketball Max Sparger Scholar-Athlete. Miller was inducted into the UW-Whitewater Athletics Hall of Fame for his accomplishments as a player in 2006.
Following graduation, Miller played professionally in the Danish Basketball Federation for two years before returning to the United States to serve as head boys basketball coach at Harvard (Ill.) High School. In 1993, he was hired as assistant men's basketball coach, and was tabbed head women's golf coach one year later. Miller was selected head men's basketball coach prior to the 2001-02 season.
Miller is the third UW-Whitewater coach inducted into the WBCA's Hall of Fame. Former men's coach Dave Vander Meulen (2001) and former women's coach Dianne Jones (2004) were previously enshrined.