Grand Canyon women’s head basketball coach Molly Miller has agreed to lead Arizona State for the 2025 season. Contract details are yet to be disclosed but the two sides have agreed in principle on the hire, according to multiple reports.
Miller replaces Natasha Adair, who was fired after leading the Sun Devils to a 10-22 record this season and a 29-62 record in three seasons.
Miller has led the Antelopes to a 32-2 regular season record and the program’s first Western Athletic Conference title and NCAA Tournament berth. The team began the year splitting the first four games but then found form in the nation’s longest winning streak with 30 consecutive victories.
Miller gained viral attention for her celebrations after Grand Canyon’s 66-63 championship win over Texas-Arlington. The coach marked the victory by making Gatorade angels on the locker room floor and being hoisted onto her players’ shoulders.
Grand Canyon lost to Baylor, 73-60, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday.
Miller, who draws look-alike comparisons to LSU gymnastics star Livvy Dunne, was a standout athlete in her own right at Kickapoo High School in Springfield, Missouri, winning two state championships before joining Drury University in 2004.
During her stellar four-year collegiate career, she became the program’s second all-time leading scorer with 1,570 points. She returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach in 2012 and was promoted to head coach in 2014. Six seasons and two WBCA Div. II Coach of the Year honors, Miller was hired to lead Grand Canyon in 2020.
Over five years, she guided the team to a 99-30 record and will now take over an Arizona State program that hasn’t had a winning season since Hall of Fame coach Charli Turner Thorne led them to a 20-11 record and an NCAA Tournament first-round appearance in 2019.