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UNC Basketball: Former Tar Heel, UNC Greensboro coach ranked No. 1 by ESPN

On Wednesday morning, ESPN released its list of the top 40 college basketball coaches under the age of 40, and former UNC sharpshooter Wes Miller took the top spot.

“Three years after playing on a North Carolina team that captured the 2005 national title, Miller started his coaching career as an assistant at Elon in his mid-20s, and the No. 1 coach on our list hasn’t looked back,” ESPN’s Myron Medcalf writes. “After accepting the head-coaching job at UNC Greensboro as a 27-year-old, Miller emerged as one of the top young coaches in college basketball.