SMU Mustangs Head Coach Tim Jankovich has announced that he is retiring from coaching after nearly four decades of coaching. He served as an assistant and Head Coach with several programs but has decided to step away from the game. He has been critical of NCAA transfer rules recently and on top of that, there were rumors that SMU was mulling over replacing him as the Head Coach. Instead, he decides to retire from coaching college basketball at the age of 62 years old.
BREAKING: Tim Jankovich will not return as #SMU‘s head coach, sources tell @SMUOn3.
Jankovich went 125-64 overall in his time on the Hilltop, but hadn’t taken the Mustangs to the NCAA Tournament since 2017.
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— Billy Embody (@BillyEmbody) March 22, 2022
Tim Jankovich took over for Larry Brown at the SMU Mustangs and initially things looked like they were going well. While with the Mustangs he led the team to an overall record of 125-64 and an American Athletic Conference record of 58-42. The program made the NCAA Tournament record once in that time and got eliminated in the first round. His overall coaching record as a Head Coach is 282-185.
SMU Head Coach Tim Jankovich Announces Retirement#ThankYouCoach
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— SMU Basketball (@SMUBasketball) March 22, 2022
While his tenure as the Head Coach at SMU began well it slowly became obvious the program was not able to recruit the talent it needed to compete and win enough games. The SMU Mustangs program is in need of an overhaul and a fresh start that it did not get after the Larry Brown era. The search for a new Head Coach will begin and hopefully, the program can find the right person for the job heading into a new era of college basketball.
