New SMU men’s basketball head coach Andy Enfield is back to work reshaping the roster for the 2024-25 season. This time, he’s added six-foot guard Kevin Miller from Wake Forest. Miller announced his commitment to the Mustangs Sunday, joining Oregon guard Kario Oquendo and Long Beach State guard A.J. George from the transfer portal.
The rising redshirt junior, who goes by the nickname “Boopie,” averaged 15.6 points per game this past season, the second most on the Demon Deacons. He also led the team in assists, with 3.5 per game, and averaged 1.5 steals, a top-10 mark in the ACC.
Perhaps most crucially, Miller brings a year of experience in the ACC, a hot commodity on next year’s Mustangs team. Not only does 2024 mark SMU’s first season in the ACC, it also brings the program’s first season in a power basketball conference, unlike fellow conference newcomers Stanford and California.
After two seasons at Central Michigan — he only played four games his sophomore year due to injury — Miller transferred to Wake Forest, where he helped the team team to a 21-14 overall record and 11-9 in conference.
Now, he joins the recent NCAA phenomena of multi-time transfers thanks to a rule change made official last week. Miller is also part of a litany of high-profile intra-ACC transfers, since the conference changed its rules in 2021. Previously virtually unheard of, intra-conference transfers are becoming the new norm in the ACC. Syracuse starting forward Maliq Brown recently committed to Duke. Last year, former Notre Dame captain Cormac Ryan transferred to North Carolina and helped it to a regular-season title, while former Orange leading scorer Joe Girard III left Syracuse for the Elite Eight-bound Clemson Tigers, among others.
SMU finished sixth in the American Athletic Conference this season, a stark improvement from the previous one, but many of its best players have graduated or are transferring out, including leading scorer Zhuric Phelps. Though Miller’s commitment is a good start, Enfield and the Mustangs still have an uphill battle toward becoming competitive in the ACC, arguably college basketball’s most historic conference.
