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'I feel good about where we're at': Sean Miller updates roster building process

Joe Cookby:Joe Cook•04/17/25•

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Sean Miller has been very, very busy in the past few weeks. Whether it’s getting to know players like Tramon Mark, Jordan Pope, or Chendall Weaver, adding players like Camden Heide and Matas Vokietaitis, or recruiting available 2025 and 2026 prospects, there hasn’t been a lot of time for Miller to settle in.

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That said, he knows the place he’s now working has the capability of boosting his efforts into the kind that builds a championship program. All he has to do is look at his group text that features national championship winning coaches.

“Everybody is trying to win a national championship,” Miller said in an interview with Jim Rome on April 15. “I think as the new basketball coach, that becomes the target. Can you do it? You certainly have everything you need resource wise to compete for it, hopefully we can build the program to head that direction.”

Rome asked Miller about his efforts in building a roster to reach that end in the difficult SEC, which had 14 tournament teams and produced the national champion in Florida. Miller joked about how he’s barely gotten his feet settled in Austin, but that he’s had to make sure that process took precedence during his first month on the job.

“It’s the thing that I have and we have spent the most time on obviously in the first three weeks,” Miller said. “You have this collision of courses with the court case that’s active and had a date of April 7th, which affected all transfer situations including your own players. Our own players here at Texas, they had and have options. It’s really a crash course of getting to know them, them getting to know you and as much about you through your track record. You can’t make up for lost time.”

Miller retained Weaver, Mark, Pope, and Nic Codie from last year’s team, plus other players who saw rare action in 2024-25. Then, he added several players from the portal, including Vokietaitis, Heide, Lassina Traore, and Dailyn Swain.

“The third part of it is acquiring talent, whether that comes from international, high school, or transfer portal,” Miller said. “You can imagine in three weeks where all that happened at once.”

There are still more needs to address for Miller, including point guard and another shooter. But so far, he sees a roster that could be the beginning of something he sees as special in Austin.

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“I feel good about where we’re at,” Miller said. “I think it’s the beginning stages of a lot of great things moving forward where we’ll have more time.”

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