The Texas A&M Aggies have employed a brand new coach to switch Buzz Williams.
Texas A&M is hiring Bucky McMillan as their new males’s basketball coach. McMillan has been the pinnacle coach at Samford for the final 5 seasons and will likely be making a giant bounce to the SEC. He’ll be receiving a five-year deal.
At Samford, McMillan went 99-52. His workforce reached the NCAA Match final 12 months and performed within the NIT this 12 months however misplaced within the first spherical.
McMillan, 41, performed his faculty ball at Birmingham-Southern. After his faculty profession ended, McMillan returned to his alma mater, Mountain Brook Excessive College. He served as an assistant coach at Mountain Brook from 2006-2008 after which was the pinnacle coach from 2008-2020.
McMillan has been named the Southern Convention Coach of the Yr 3 times in a row.
Texas A&M wants a brand new coach after Buzz Williams left to take the Maryland job as a alternative for Kevin Willard. A&M is coming off 4 straight 20-plus win seasons underneath Williams. They went 23-11 this season and misplaced within the second spherical of the NCAA Match for the second 12 months in a row.