Bucky McMillan (born August 12, 1983) is an American basketball coach. He is currently the head coach at Samford.

Early life and education

McMillan played basketball at

Mountain Brook High School Mountain Brook High School (MBHS) is a three-year public high school in the city of Mountain Brook, Alabama USA. It is the only high school in the Mountain Brook City School System. The school's colors are green and gold and the athletic teams a ...

in Alabama and led them to a state final four in 2001. He played for

Birmingham Southern Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West M ...

from 2002 to 2006. McMillan was named to the league All-Academic team as a senior, and he graduated from Birmingham-Southern in 2007 with a degree in education services.

Coaching career

While in college, McMillan coached youth teams in Mountain Brook, and became the junior varsity head coach in 2006. McMillan was hired as the head coach at Mountain Brook in 2008. In his first season, the team finished 18-12. He has won three 7A basketball championships, two 6A basketball championships for Mountain Brook. He coached the Spartans to two championship runner-ups, seven final four appearances, 10 regional appearances and nine area titles. in 2018, McMillan was named the national Boys Basketball Coach of the Year by the National High School Coaches Association after the team finished 34-3. He's the first Alabama coach to win the national honor from the NHSCA. McMillan was named the coach of the 2019 Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Game. He was the USA Today's Alabama Coach of the Year in 2019. In 2020, Mountain Brook was ranked 13th in the top 25 public high school basketball programs in the United States over the past ten years. He finished 333-74 in twelve seasons at Mountain Brook, averaging nearly 28 wins per season. On April 6, 2020, McMillan was hired as head coach at Samford, replacing Scott Padgett. His former coach at Birmingham Southern, Duane Reboul, came out of retirement to join McMillan's staff as a special assistant at Samford. McMillan drew attention for his uptempo and aggressive style of play, nicknamed "Bucky Ball", and his team posted a 96–83 upset at Belmont on December 5, 2020. In his first season, Samford finished 6-13 overall and 2-9 in the

Southern Conference The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly ...

, and had eight games canceled due to COVID-19 precautions. In 2022, McMillan was named

Coach of the Year by the media.

Head coaching record

References

External links

College stats at SportsReference.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:McMillan, Bucky 1983 births Living people American men's basketball coaches American men's basketball players Basketball coaches from Alabama Basketball players from Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham–Southern Panthers men's basketball players High school basketball coaches in Alabama Samford Bulldogs men's basketball coaches Sportspeople from Birmingham, Alabama