Sean Miller has lost an assistant coach to the head coaching ranks after each of the past two seasons.
Joe Pasternack left for UC Santa Barbara after the 2016-17 season. Lorenzo Romar left for Pepperdine after the 2017-18 season.
Miller doesn’t want that streak to continue, so when the Arizona Wildcats needed to fill two assistant coaching vacancies this offseason, he went with two younger candidates in Ball State’s Danny Peters and Santa Clara’s Justin Gainey.
Miller believes the hires will lead to a more stable program.