All three won SEC championships this school year and forced their way into the national championship conversation, and Miller didn’t take long to cite that widespread athletic success as a reason for leaving Xavier and taking over the Texas program.

Texas has hired Xavier men's basketball coach Sean Miller to replace Rodney Terry, who was fired by the Longhorns on Sunday.

Texas hired Xavier's Sean Miller to take over the Longhorns basketball program on Monday, turning to the coach who had just knocked them out of the NCAA Tournament a few days earlier in an attempt to spark a program that struggled in its first season in the Southeastern Conference.