Brian Miller begins the second season of his second stint on the Golden Griffin men's basketball coaching staff. He is responsible for recruiting, on-floor coaching and scouting as well as the day-to-day operations of the office.
Miller came to Canisius from D'Youville College, where he spent the last five seasons as the director of athletics and head men's basketball coach. He guided the Spartans to their first winning season in 20 years in 2001-02 and their first-ever North Eastern Athletic Conference championship in 2002-03. The two-time NEAC Coach of the Year also led D'Youville to the league's regular-season championship in 2003-04. He stepped down as the second-winningest coach in school history.
No stranger to Canisius, Miller served as an assistant coach for the Golden Griffins from 1996-99. He started as an administrative assistant under John Beilein in 1996-97 and was promoted when current coach Mike MacDonald took over the reigns in 1997-98. Miller assisted in the recruitment of former Golden Griffin standouts Andrew Bush, Darren Fenn, Brian Dux, Toby Foster and Hodari Mallory.
He also served as an assistant coach for the Western Open Team in the 1999 and 2000 Empire State Games and was elected to the NABC Division I Assistant Coaches Board of Directors in 1997.
Miller earned his bachelor's degree in mass communications from St. Bonaventure in 1988 and his master's degree from Canisius in 2002. He followed his undergraduate course of study and worked as a sports writer at The Batavia News from 1988-91. He became the sports editor of The Livingston County News, a weekly newspaper in Geneseo, N.Y., from 1991-92.
During that time, Miller was bitten by the coaching bug and got his start as an assistant coach at Warsaw High School in 1990. He became the head coach at Attica in 1992 before taking over the reigns of Warsaw's junior varsity program in 1993. His 1995-96 squad went a perfect 20-0.
Brian and his wife, Karen, reside in West Seneca with their four-year-old son, JC, and newborn, Kelly.
