Miami (FL) basketball found themselves needed a new head coach after the 2024-25 season. Miami landed on former Duke assistant Jai Lucas as the new head coach. He took over a program that last made the tournament in 2023, making a run to the Final Four. “Miami coach Jai Lucas has agreed a new five-year contract, sources told me and Pete Thamel. He moved to Kentucky in 2020 and then became the first Duke assistant to not have played at Duke in decades when he joined the program in 2022.