Bucky McMillan
Bucky McMillan (born August 12, 1983)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Samford Bulldogs
Current conference: Southern Conference (SoCon)
Samford record: 77-41 (.653)
Overall record: 77-41 (.653)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2024)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- SoCon Regular Season Champion: 2 (2023, 2024)
- SoCon Tournament Champion: 1 (2024)
Awards:
- SoCon Coach of the Year: 3 (2022, 2023, 2024)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2020-present | Samford |
Bucky McMillan Facts
- Bucky McMillan
- Born August 12, 1983
- Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama
- Alma Mater: Birmingham-Southern College (BA, 2007)
- Played four years at D-III Birmingham-Southern (AL) for head coach Duane Reboul; was conference All-Academic as a senior
- Started his coaching career at alma mater Mountain Brook HS (AL), serving as the JV coach for two years
- Became the varsity head coach at Mountain Brook in 2008 and coached the boys’ teams for the next 12 seasons
- Won 333 games, an average of over 27 wins per season, and won 23+ games in all but his first year at the helm
- Reached the state finals seven times and won in five of those years (2013, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019)
- Finished multiple seasons ranked in the Top 20 by USA Today, including a #5 ranking in 2019
- Won a number of local and national COY awards, including being named NHSCA National Coach of the Year in 2018
- In April 2020, McMillan left Mountain Brook to take over as the head coach at D-I Samford in the SoCon
- Improved from 6 wins in year one to 19 in year two, earning McMillan SoCon COY honors from the league’s coaches
- In 2022-23, McMillan’s team won a share of the SoCon title for the first time ever and he was again named SoCon COY
- The following year the Bulldogs won their first-ever outright SoCon regular season championship and then won the SoCon Tournament to get back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2000
Bucky McMillan Coaching Tree
- Gerald Gillion (Chicago State)