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Report: Sean Miller bringing several members of his Xavier staff to Texas, retaining Chris Ogden

Joe Cookby:Joe Cook•03/31/25•

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New Texas head coach Sean Miller is bringing several members of his Xavier staff with him to Austin, Texas, per Jon Rothstein. Miller is also retaining general manager Chris Ogden, who has been with the program since Chris Beard hired him away from UT-Arlington in 2021.

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Ogden, a former Longhorn forward for Rick Barnes, has been in the Texas program in some form for almost two decades. He was a key part of crafting a home court advantage at the Moody Center and is now working for his fourth Texas head coach.

Cohen, who was the associate head coach at Xavier under Miller, is an Arizona graduate who has also coached at Stanford, Vanderbilt, Harvard, and Rice. He was the recruiting coordinator at XU in addition to associate head coach. According to his Xavier bio, “Cohen was named one of the 50 Most Impactful High Major Assistants for 2022-23 (survey of industry professionals by Silver Waves Media). The NABC named Cohen to its prestigious 30-under-30 Team, recognizing the nation’s top assistant coaches, at the 2016 Final Four in Houston.”

David Miller, no relation to Sean, was an assistant coach for Xavier. According to his bio, he was “named one of the 50 Most Impactful High Major Assistants for 2022-23 (survey of industry professionals by Silver Waves Media).” Miller has previous stops at San Jose State and worked for Sean Miller at Arizona as director of on-campus recruiting and basketball analytics. David’s father, Dave, coached at Texas.

Anderson, who was an assistant coach and director of player development at XU, is another former Wildcat on Miller’s staff. Anderson began his career at Boston College before transferring to Arizona for his final two years. After a brief international career, he began coaching at Arizona in 2021-22.

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Reynolds most recently served as special assistant to the head coach at Xavier and has been with Miller for all but one of his years as a head coach.

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