List of Arizona Wildcats men's basketball head coaches

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.

Statistics

Key # Number of coaches GC Games coached OW Overall Wins OL Overall Losses O% Winning percentage CW Conference Wins CL Conference Losses C% Winning percentage RCs Regular Season Conference Champions CCs Conference Tournament Champions NCs National Championships † Helms champion † NIT champion † NCAA tournament champion

Coaching awards † Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame FHOF FIBA Hall of Fame BHOF Basketball Hall of Fame NMBHOF Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame NCHOF National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame LOCA Legend of Coaching Award SN Sporting News Coach of the Year NABC National Association of Basketball Coaches Coach of the Year N Naismith Coach of the Year BT Basketball Times Coach of the Year USBWA U.S. Basketball Writers Association UPI United Press International Coach of the Year CBS CBS/Chevrolet Coach of the Year AP Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year ARC Adolph Rupp Cup SY Sportsman of the Year OGM Olympic Gold Medal Pac-12 Pac-12 Coach of the Year

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]

#	Name	Term	Overall W-L percentage	Conference W-L percentage	RCs titles	CCs titles	NCs titles	Awards
1	Orin A. Kates	1904–1906	1–0–1 (.750)	--	--	--	--	--
2	No coach	1906–1911	10–6 (.625)	--	--	--	--	--
3	Frank L. Kleeberger	1911–1912	2–2 (.500)	--	--	--	--	--
4	Raymond L. Quigley	1912–1914	10–4 (.714)	--	--	--	--	--
5	Pop McKale	1914–1921	49–12 (.803)	--	--	--	--	--
6	James Pierce	1921–1923	10–2 (.833)	--	--	--	--	--
7	Basil Stanley	1923–1924	31–6 (.838)	--	--	--	--	--
8	Walter Davis	1924–1925	7–4 (.636)	--	--	--	--	--
9	Fred Enke	1925–1961	509–324 (.611)	232–138 (.627)	10	--	--	--
10	Bruce Larson	1961–1972	136–148 (.479)	44–68 (.393)	--	--	--	--
11	Fred Snowden	1972–1982	167–108 (.607)	82–146 (.360)	1	--	--	WAC Coach of the Year (1973)
12	Ben Lindsey	1982–1983	4–24 (.143)	1–17 (.056)	--	--	--	--
13	Lute Olson†+	1983–2007	589–188 (.758)	327–101 (.764)	11	4	1: 1997	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	3–2 (.600)	--	--	--	--	--
15	Kevin O'Neill++	2007–2008	19–15 (.559)	8–10 (.444)	--	--	--	--
16	Russ Pennell+++	2008–2009	21–14 (.600)	9–9 (.500)	--	--	--	--
17	Sean Miller++++	2009–2021	302–109 (.735)	153–74 (.674)	5	3	--	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)	2	2	--	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)
Totals		1904–present	2,087–1,026–1 (.670)	975–610 (.615)	27	9	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.