List of Arizona Wildcats men's basketball head coaches
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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 | 148–35 (.809) | 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 | 2,018–1,002–1 (.668) | 992–513 (.659) | -- | |
Source:[1]
| Coach | Appearances | |
|---|---|---|
| National Champions | Lute Olson | 1 |
| Final Four | Lute Olson | 4 |
| Tommy Lloyd | 1 | |
| Elite Eight | Lute Olson | 3 |
| Sean Miller | 3 | |
| Fred Snowden | 1 | |
| Tommy Lloyd | 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.