The Murray State Racers of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) have found their next head coach just days after former head coach Steve Prohm announced his resignation.
The university went all the way to Omaha, Nebraska, for this hire—selecting Ryan Miller, a former assistant for the Creighton Bluejays, to lead the team next season.
Who Is Ryan Miller?
According to insider Jeff Goodman, Murray State will be tapping in Creighton assistant coach Ryan Miller as Prohm’s successor.
As Goodman noted when he broke the news, Miller had been with the Bluejays since 2021 and had also coached at TCU, UNLV, Auburn, and New Mexico in recent years.
Murray State will hire Creighton assistant Ryan Miller, sources told @TheFieldOf68.
Miller, 49, has been at Creighton since 2021, and has been a veteran assistant who has been at TCU, UNLV, Auburn and New Mexico over past decade.
Miller is from South Dakota and is the brother…
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) March 13, 2025
The older brother of former NBA sharpshooter and champion Mike Miller, Ryan will look to bring the Murray State program back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2022.
The South Dakota native has coached several teams to March Madness and could do the same with the Racers.
His experience coaching under John Calipari and Greg McDermott should also help him as a first-time head coach.
Steve Prohm Steps Down
Simply put, in his second stint with the program, Prohm wasn’t able to build a winner in Murray, Kentucky.
In his last two seasons, he posted back-to-back losing seasons, both overall and in conference. The Racers did not come close to reaching the NCAA Tournament at all.
Prohm was hired in 2022 after a horrendous 2020-2021 season in which he coached the Iowa State Cyclones to an overall record of 2-22.
This came as a disappointment after he won multiple Big 12 Tournament titles with the Cyclones and multiple regular-season OVC titles with the Racers during his previous stint at the school.
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But in the end, he just wasn’t the answer this time around after winning at least 21 games in each of his four seasons as head coach during the previous stint before heading to Ames.
Now, it will be up to Ryan Miller to get the program back on track.
This team has made just one NCAA Tournament appearance in the last five seasons and is looking to change that. Time will tell whether or not Miller can be the guy who can get them back over the hump in the coming years.
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