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 116-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.

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Statistics

Statistics are correct as of the 2025–26 college basketball season.

Coaching awards are only listed if won while the individual was the coach of Arizona.

Career coaching records

Source: [1]

#NameTermOverall W-L
percentage
Conference W-L
percentage
RCs titlesCCs
titles
NCs
titles
Awards
1 Orin A. Kates 1904–19061–0–1 (.750)----------
2No coach1906–191110–6 (.625)----------
3 Frank L. Kleeberger 1911–19122–2 (.500)----------
4 Raymond L. Quigley 1912–191410–4 (.714)----------
5 Pop McKale 1914–192149–12 (.803)----------
6 James Pierce 1921–192310–2 (.833)----------
7 Basil Stanley 1923–192431–6 (.838)----------
8 Walter Davis 1924–19257–4 (.636)----------
9 Fred Enke 1925–1961509–324 (.611)232–138 (.627)10------
10 Bruce Larson 1961–1972136–148 (.479)44–68 (.393)--------
11 Fred Snowden 1972–1982167–108 (.607)82–146 (.360)1----WAC Coach of the Year (1973)
12 Ben Lindsey 1982–19834–24 (.143)1–17 (.056)--------
13 Lute Olson†+1983–2007589–188 (.758)327–101 (.764)1141: 1997 Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award (2001)
Pac-10 Coach of the Year (1986, 1988-89, 1993-94, 1998, 2003)
14 Jim Rosborough^2000–20013–2 (.600)----------
15 Kevin O'Neill++2007–200819–15 (.559)8–10 (.444)--------
16 Russ Pennell+++2008–200921–14 (.600)9–9 (.500)--------
17 Sean Miller++++2009–2021302–109 (.735)153–74 (.674)53--

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*112–33 (.772)61–19 (.763)22--

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)

Totals1904–present2,087–1,026–1 (.670)975–610(.615)2791

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

  1. "Arizona 2015-2016 Media Guide History and Records pp. 60" (PDF). arizonaathletics.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 2, 2017.
  2. "NCAA Career Statistics".
  3. "2016-17 Arizona Basketball Season".
  4. "2017-18 Arizona Basketball Season".