Sport(s) Basketball Title Associate head coach Name Tim Jankovich | Role Basketball Coach | |
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Education Washington State University, Kansas State University | ||
Smu basketball coach tim jankovich has off the court guitar skills
Tim Jankovich (born June 4, 1959) is an American college basketball coach and head coach at Southern Methodist University. During his first year (2007–08) at Illinois State, Jankovich led the Redbirds to a 13–5 second-place finish in the Missouri Valley Conference – even though pre-season polls voted the team to be a fifth-place finisher. He was an assistant basketball coach at Kansas for four years, and served under current Kansas head coach Bill Self at Kansas and Illinois.
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- Smu basketball coach tim jankovich has off the court guitar skills
- American Mens Basketball Coaches Teleconferences March 11th SMU Head Coach Tim Jankovich
- Playing career
- Division I head coaching record
- References
He has also served as an assistant coach at Kansas State, Colorado State, Oklahoma State, Texas and Vanderbilt. He played college basketball at Washington State and Kansas State.
While at Colorado State, his teams posted three consecutive winning seasons en route to the best period of college basketball in school history. He also served for four years as the head basketball coach at North Texas. The team had gone 5–22 the previous season, but Jankovich engineered the second-largest turnaround in the nation that year.
American Men's Basketball Coaches Teleconferences March 11th - SMU Head Coach Tim Jankovich
Playing career
At Kansas State, Jankovich remains one of the winningest players in school history, playing under coach Jack Hartman. He was a four-year starter at point guard, but played his freshman season at Washington State. A three-time academic All-American and honorable mention All-Big Eight player, Jankovich finished his career at Kansas State in the school's top-10 in nine categories, including first in season free-throw percentage (.917) and eighth in career field-goal percentage (.510). In addition, he holds the Big Eight Tournament record for single-game assists (14).
He and his wife, Cindy, have a son, Michael. He received a scholarship offer from Utah State as a junior in high school. The family resides in Dallas, Texas.
On April 26, SMU announced Jankovich as its Associate Head Coach and coach-in-waiting, and was announced as head coach on July 8, 2016. On March 7th 2017, Tim Jankovich was selected as the coach of the year for USBWA district VII. On March 9, 2017 he was named American Athletic Conference Coach of the year.
Division I head coaching record
2015 - *Interim Head Coach