When Sean Miller stood at the podium inside Cintas Center on Friday afternoon for his second introduction as Xavier University's men's basketball coach, before he could even utter a word, one of the fans in attendance yelled, "Welcome home."
It's rare to return. In college basketball, the exit ramp is usually permanent, and second chances aren't as common as most would like them to be.
"Xavier is not the same place that I left," said Miller, who was the head coach of the Musketeers from 2004-09. "As always here, it's been a constant quest to improve, to add, to be better, and in our world – college basketball – to be a part of the Big East Conference is something,
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