John Miller is an American basketball coach who served as the head coach of the Murray State Teachers College

Murray State Racers

Murray State University features 15 varsity sports teams. Both men's and women's teams are called the Racers, with the exception of the baseball team which is known as the Thoroughbreds. They participate in the NCAA's Division I, in the Ohio Valley Conference. Football competes the Football...

 men's basketball team from 1942-1947.

A former player at Murray College, Miller spent five seasons as the school's freshman coach before becoming head coach in 1942. In his first season as head coach, Miller coached the Thoroughbreds, led by future Basketball Hall of Fame

Basketball Hall of Fame

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, honors exceptional basketball players, coaches, referees, executives, and other major contributors to the game of basketball worldwide...

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Joe Fulks

Joseph Franklin "Jumping Joe" Fulks was an American professional basketball player, sometimes called "the first of the high-scoring forwards". He was one of the first players, albeit posthumously, enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978...

, to a 4th place finish in the 1943 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

1943 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 1943 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 7th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format . The championship game featured Southeast Missouri State University defeating...

. This would be the school's only postseason appearance under Miller. He reisgned three games into the 1947-48 season and was replaced by the school's first basketball coach Carlisle Cutchin

Carlisle Cutchin

Carlisle Cutchin was an American football, baseball, and basketball coach at Murray State University ....

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