Glen Miller
Glen Miller (born August 20, 1961)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Saint Joseph (CT) Blue Jays
Current conference: Great Northeast Athletic Conference (Div III)
Connecticut College record: 95-58 (.621)
Brown record: 93-99 (.484)
Penn record: 45-52 (.464)
Saint Joseph (CT) record: 77-9 (.895)
Overall record^: 310-218 (.587)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2007)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2003)
- Ivy League Regular Season Champion: 1 (2007)
- GNAC (Div III) Regular Season Champion: 3 (2022, 2023, 2024)
- NCAA Division III Tournament Appearances: 5 (1998, 1999, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
2021-present | Saint Joseph |
2018-2021 | Saint Joseph (assoc. HC) |
2010-2017 | Connecticut (assoc. HC) |
2006-2009 | Penn |
1999-2006 | Brown |
1993-1999 | Connecticut College |
1986-1993 | Connecticut (asst) |
Glen Miller Facts
- Glen Miller
- Born August 20, 1961
- Hometown: Groton, Connecticut
- Alma Mater: Northeastern University (BA)
- Graduated from Fitch HS (CT) and played for head coach Dom Perno at Connecticut before transferring after two years
- Played for Jim Calhoun at Northeastern and appeared in two NCAA Tournaments with the Huskies
- Joined Calhoun‘s first coaching staff at UConn in 1986, serving as one of his assistants for seven seasons
- Was part of three NCAA Tournaments and three NITs over that tenure, including a NIT title in 1988
- Became the head coach at D-III Connecticut College in 1993, leading the Camels for six seasons
- Improved the team from just 10 combined wins in his first two seasons to back-to-back D-III NCAA Tournament appearances in 1998 and 1999; the 1998-99 Camels won 28 games and reached the NCAA D-III Final Four
- Left Conn College for Brown in 1999, coaching the Bears for seven seasons
- Went 93-99 overall, reaching the program’s first-ever NIT in 2003 after winning 17 games for a second-straight year
- Took over at Penn in 2006, leading the Quakers to an Ivy League title and NCAA bid in his first season
- Was less successful in the next couple seasons and after starting the 2009-10 season 0-7, Miller was dismissed
- Returned to UConn the following season, serving as Calhoun‘s associate head coach for his final two years at the helm
- On the staff in 2011 when the Huskies won their third NCAA National Championship under Calhoun
- Stayed on for six more years under Kevin Ollie, winning another NCAA title as associate head coach in 2014
- In 2018, Calhoun came out of retirement to launch the men’s basketball program at D-III Saint Joseph in Connecticut
- Miller reunited with his mentor, coming on board as associate head coach for the Blue Jays
- Following Calhoun’s retirement three games into the 2021-22 season, Miller was named acting head coach
- The Blue Jays went 23-2 under Miller (26-2 overall) and reached the D-III NCAA Tournament; Miller was retained as the head basketball coach
- Completed a second- and third-straight undefeated conference run, winning two more GNAC titles and going to two NCAA Tournament
Glen Miller Coaching Tree
- John Gallagher (Manhattan, Hartford)
- Mike Martin (Brown)
- Andy Partee (Colorado College)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at both the NCAA Division I and Division III levels