| Title: | Head Basketball Coach |
| Phone: | (903) 875-7487 |
| Email: | basketball@navarrocollege.edu |
| Year: | 5 |
Grant McMillan
M.S., Texas A&M University
The Van, TX, native begins his fifth season as head basketball coach at Navarro for 2023-24. McMillan guided Navarro to a 35-19 record with consecutive Region XIV Tournament Semifinal appearances in his first two seasons here.
McMillan's 2022-23 team reached the Region XIV Tournament Quarterfinals during a 16-15 season. His team averaged 86 points, broke 100 points nine times and shot 47.9 percent from the field. All eight sophonores on the team earned scholarships to play at the next level.
McMillan's 2021-22 team qualified for the Region XIV Tournament and finished with a 17-13 record. His Bulldogs snapped unbeaten, second-ranked Kilgore's 17-game winning streak, and also defeated Trinity Valley twice during regular-season play. Navarro increased its count of next-level players to 13 over two seasons as top players as Justin Thomas (Milwaukee), Babacar Diallo (UMKC), Antonee Abraham (Texas A&M-Commerce), Sabry Philip (Stony Brook) and Terrance Thompson (Southern Illinois-Edwardsville) all earned scholarships.
McMillan sent an unprecedented eight players from Navarro's 16-6 team after the shortened 2020 season to the next level, including Souleymane Doumbia (TCU), Akol Mawein (Oklahoma), Brian Washington (Cal State-Bakersfield), Jules Moor (SFA), Edward Manuel (Northern Illinois), Drue Drinnon (Texas State), Jared Peel (Texas A&M-Texarkana) and Keiman Capers (Texas Lutheran). His 2020 team finished with the No. 14 grade-point average among NJCAA men's basketball teams.
McMillan came to Navarro from Panola College where he has been the Head Men’s Basketball Coach for four years. During his time at Panola he compiled an impressive 93-39 record and transformed the Ponies’ basketball into a recognized, ranked Region XIV and NJCAA Tournament contender.
With a school-record 50 wins during McMillan’s first two seasons, Panola played in consecutive Region XIV Championship games. His 26-9 East Zone champions, ranked No. 13 nationally, advanced to the second round of the 2016-17 NJCAA Tournament at Hutchinson, KS – Panola’s first appearance there since 1979.
He recruited, coached and graduated 18 players who signed NCAA Division I scholarships. His Panola program developed the third-highest winning percentage in Region XIV, defeated 12 NJCAA-ranked opponents and lost only seven home games.
Before the first head-coaching job at Panola, he had opportunities to work for some of the best, winningest programs and coaches in the country. McMillan served as the top assistant at Northwest Florida State College where coach Steve DeMeo’s 33-2 Raiders won the 2015 NJCAA Championship. He also has been an assistant at Independence Community College (KS) and Howard College (TX), as well as TCU and Texas A&M. At Howard during the 30-6 Hawks’ Elite Eight season of 2012-13, he worked under NJCAA Coach of the Year Mark Adams, now Texas Tech basketball’s defensive architect.
McMillan received his start as a student assistant at TCU under the late Neil Dougherty in 2006 and returned as a graduate assistant in 2011-12 under Jim Christian.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Phone: (903) 875-7487
Email: Grant McMillan
