The following is a list of Arizona Wildcats men's basketball head coaches. The Wildcats have had 18 coaches in their 116-season history. One Arizona coach has been enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: Lute Olson. The current head coach of Arizona Wildcat is Tommy Lloyd.
| Number of coaches | ||
| GC | Games coached | |
| OW | Overall Wins | |
| OL | Overall Losses | |
| O% | Winning percentage | |
| CW | Conference Wins | |
| CL | Conference Losses | |
| C% | Winning percentage | |
| RCs | Regular Season Conference Champions | |
| CCs | Conference Tournament Champions | |
| NCs | National Championships | |
| † | Helms champion | |
| † | NIT champion | |
| † | NCAA tournament champion |
| † | Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame |
| FHOF | |
| BHOF | Basketball Hall of Fame |
| NMBHOF | Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
| NCHOF | National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame |
| LOCA | Legend of Coaching Award |
| SN | Sporting News Coach of the Year |
| NABC | National Association of Basketball Coaches Coach of the Year |
| N | Naismith Coach of the Year |
| BT | Basketball Times Coach of the Year |
| USBWA | U.S. Basketball Writers Association |
| UPI | United Press International Coach of the Year |
| CBS | CBS/Chevrolet Coach of the Year |
| AP | Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year |
| ARC | Adolph Rupp Cup |
| SY | Sportsman of the Year |
| OGM | Olympic Gold Medal |
| Pac-12 | Pac-12 Coach of the Year |
Statistics are correct as of the 2023–24 college basketball season.
Source:[1]
| 1904–1906 | 1–0–1 | -- | 75% | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| No coach | 1906–1911 | 10–6 | -- | 62% | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 1911–1912 | 2–2 | -- | 50% | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1912–1914 | 10–4 | -- | 71% | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1914–1921 | 49–12 | -- | 80% | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1921–1923 | 10–2 | -- | 83% | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1923–1924 | 31–6 | -- | 83% | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1924–1925 | 7–4 | -- | 63% | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1925–1961 | 509–324 | 232–138 | 61% | 10 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | ||
| 1961–1972 | 136–148 | 44–68 | 47% | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1972–1982 | 167–108 | 82–146 | 60% | -- | 1 | 2 | -- | -- | ||
| 1982–1983 | 4–24 | 1–17 | 14% | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Lute Olson†+ | 1983–2007 | 589–188 | 327–101 | 75% | 11 | 4 | 23 | 1 | 7 | |
| Jim Rosborough^ | 2000–2001 | 3–2 | -- | 60% | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Kevin O'Neill++ | 2007–2008 | 19–15 | 8–10 | 55% | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | |
| Russ Pennell+++ | 2008–2009 | 21–14 | 9–9 | 60% | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | |
| Sean Miller++++ | 2009–2021 | 302–109 | 153–74 | 73% | 5 | 3 | 7 | -- | 3 | |
| 2021–present* | 88–19 | 47–13 | 82% | 1 | 2 | 2 | -- | 1 | ||
| Totals | 1904–present | 1,958–991–1 | 903–576 | 66% | 27 | 9 | 36 | 1 | 11 |
* Only intrasquad games were played in 1905–06.
+ Record for the 1999 and 2008 were vacated by NCAA due to NCAA infractions. Actual on-court records was 589-188 for Lute Olson and 19–15 for Kevin O'Neil.
^ Rosborough served as head coach for five games during the 2000–01 campaign while Olson took a leave of absence. Arizona was 28–8 overall and 15–3 in Pac-10 play that season.
++ O'Neill served as interim head coach while Olson missed the season due to a leave of absence.
+++ Pennell served as interim head coach following Olson's retirement in October 2008.
++++ The NCAA vacated 32 wins from the 2016–17 season, and 18 wins from the 2017–18 season as a result of the 2017–18 NCAA men's basketball corruption scandal. The players involved in the scandal played in every game in the 2016–17 & 23 games in the 2017–18 season, resulting in a 9–8 record.[2] [3] [4]
An asterisk (*) denotes a season currently in progress.
† – Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.