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Nebraska Hires Colorado State's Miles as New Head Coach

By Mike Smith

03/25/2012

Nebraska Cornhuskers are hoping former Colorado State Rams head coach, Tim Miles can take the Cornhusker basketball program from the cellar to a contender like he did in the Mountain West with the Rams.

Nebraska just one year into its new conference alliance with the Big Ten conference, decided that after six mediocre seasons with Doc Sadler as their head coach they should move in a different direction. Sadler went 101-89 (53.2%) in his six seasons at the helm for the Cornhuskers but his best season overall came in his second season with a 20-12 mark, only resulting in a second round ousting in the NIT tournament.

Cornhuskers now have called upon Miles to take over at the helm of their basketball program. Miles, 45, grew up in South Dakota and has made his way up in the coaching ranks, as he coached Mayville and Southwest Minnesota State in the NAIA and Division II ranks, respectively. He took Southwest Minnesota State to the Elite Eight of Division II in his final season as their head coach.

From that he moved on to North Dakota State, who was in transition to Division I and after three years as their head coach, he lead them to a 20-8 record. In 2007, Miles would take over as head coach of the Rams of Colorado State in the Mountain West conference. Colorado State was a bottom dweller in the conference when Miles took over, but over the years Miles slowing changed that, as the program would make the CBI and NIT postseason tournaments. Before ultimately taking the Rams to the NCAA tournament, for the first time since 2003, behind a 20-12 record, this season.

Miles takes over a struggling program Nebraska program who hasn't made the NCAA tournament since 1998; Miles does have the track record of helping programs get on the right track.

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