Report: Texas coach Sean Miller hiring Kenya Hunter as final assistant coach

Sean Miller has spent the past three weeks putting his program together as the new head coach at Texas. That now includes his final staff member as a former assistant of his is headed to Austin.

Per Jeff Goodman at ‘The Field of 68’, the Longhorns have hired Kenya Hunter as the last coach on Miller’s bench. It’s one of the few hires he’s had to make, though, with several assistants following him over and him retaining some members of the program down on The 40 Acres.

“New Texas head coach Sean Miller is hiring Kenya Hunter as his assistant to complete his staff, source told @TheFieldOf68,” Goodman tweeted on Friday. “Hunter was on Miller’s staff for his first go-around as the Xavier head coach. Hunter was most recently at Indiana with Mike Woodson.”

Hunter had spent the past five seasons at Indiana with the past three being as the associate head coach of the Hoosiers. However, he would not be retained with the retirement of Woodson and with their new hire of Darian DeVries.

Prior to being in Bloomington, Hunter has had previous jobs the past two decades or so at Connecticut, Nebraska, Georgetown, Xavier, NC State, and his alma mater at Duquesne. It was with the Musketeers for three years that he previously worked with Miller during his original five-year stint with the program. Miller went 120-47 during his first tenure there, including 63-32 over the three while Hunter was on his staff staff.

Now, in taking the Longhorns’ job, Miller is reportedly bringing Adam Cohen, David Miller, and Ryan Anderson with him from his second stint at Xavier and adding Ulric Maligi (Kansas State) in some capacity. He’s doing so while apparently retaining Chris Ogden as the program’s general manager, a role he has held for almost a half decade now as part of several years spent working with the program previously.

With that, Miller should have most of his staff completed. That puts the attention on the actual roster now with three players having transferred in during this cycle and four key ones having been retained with one headed elsewhere in the portal and one expected entry into the draft.