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Team USA Basketball: Sean Miller Replaces Billy Donovan as Head Coach of National U-19 Team

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With Billy Donovan's jump from college basketball to the NBA, USA Basketball announced new additions to the under-19 national team.

According to ESPN, Team USA named Sean Miller the U-19 head coach in the wake of Donovan leaving the post when he accepted the Oklahoma City Thunder job. Taking Miller's spot as an assistant will be he brother Archie, who coaches Dayton's men's team.

Sean Miller is 163-52 at Arizona, having led the Wildcats to three Pac-12 regular season titles and winning the conference's tournament championship this past season.

"I am honored to be named head coach of the USA Men's U19 World Championship Team," Miller said in a press release. "It is exciting to be coaching such a talented group of young players, as well as working alongside a great coaching staff. I look forward to the responsibility and challenges that lie ahead in our journey to win the gold medal at the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship."

Team USA also announced Ed Cooley, head men's basketball coach at Providence, would remain an assistant on the U-19 team.

"The appointments of Sean Miller, Ed Cooley and Archie Miller to lead the USA Basketball Men's U19 World Championship Team gives that group of players three of the most successful teachers in college basketball," Jim Boeheim, Syracuse University's Hall of Fame head coach and chair of the USA Basketball Junior National Team Committee, said in the release. "All three coaches have taken their respective programs to an elite level, and now they will combine their talents to have the U19 group prepared for a gold-medal run."

After coaching on his brother's staff at Arizona, Archie Miller moved on to Dayton in 2011, where he has led them to two consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.

"It's an honor to have this opportunity," he said in the release. "First and foremost, representing our country is a humbling feeling. USA Basketball is an incredible organization, and to be a part of it with so many great people will only make me better as a coach and person. I'm really excited to work with Ed Cooley. What he's done at Providence is amazing."

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