during the 2016–2017 he signed an extension through the 2022 season as the head coach of the arizona wildcats. miller has the 4th best conference winning percentage of any coach with at least 100 conference wins percentage() only behind john wooden, lute olson & jim harrick. he is tied for 20th in career conference victories at 107. on march 6, miller won his 3rd pac-12 coach of the year honor, second most in school history. miller's wildcats finished the pac-12 regular season with a record of 27–4 plus a 16–2 in conference play which was good enough for co-champions 15th in school history & 2 seed in the pac-12 tournament. they went on to defeat 7 seed colorado, 3 seed ucla & overall 1 seed oregon for the pac-12 conference championship, its 6th in school history and second under miller. during the ncaa selection process miller and the wildcats received a 2 seed in the west region. they defeated 15 seed north dakota 100–62 to reach the round of 32, 7 seed saint mary's 69–60 to reach the schools 19th sweet 16 where they lost to 11 seed xavier in the west regional semi-final in san jose, 71–73.