on december 9, 2013, in miller's fifth season as head coach of the wildcats, arizona became the #1 ranked team in the country for the 6th time in school history following a 9–0 start with wins over traditional national powerhouses duke and unlv. the wildcats followed this up by securing a key come-from-behind victory on the road at michigan on december 14 and led the wildcats to their second outright pac-12 regular season title (its 13th overall, 26th regular season overall). arizona also secured its second unbeaten home record (18–0) and coach miller was again named the pac-10/12 coach of the year. the wildcats completed their fifth ever 30+ win season (2nd overall). in the ncaa tournament, arizona made its second elite eight appearance (9th overall) of the miller era, but fell to wisconsin in overtime to finish the season with an overall record of 33–5, including 15–3 in pac-12.