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Tim Jankovich

Tim Jankovich

American basketball coach (born 1959)

Timothy Robert Jankovich (born June 4, 1959)[1] is a former American college basketball coach and former 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.[2] 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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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.

Biography

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).

On April 26, SMU announced Jankovich as its associate head coach and coach-in-waiting,[3] and was announced as head coach on July 8, 2016.[4] On March 7, 2017, Jankovich was selected as the coach of the year for USBWA district VII.[5] On March 9, 2017, he was named American Athletic Conference Coach of the year.[6]

On March 22, 2022, Jankovich announced his retirement.[7]

Jankovich and his wife, Cindy, have a son, Michael. The family resides in Dallas, Texas.

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Notes

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    Jankovich served as interim head coach during the first nine games of the 2015–16 season and is credited by SMU with those victories.

References

  1. [1]
    "NCAA® Career Statistics".
  2. [2]
    Elmquist, Jason (July 29, 2008). "Ex-KU assistant enjoys first year, Illinois State's Jankovich scouting Kansas AAU tourney". Lawrence Journal-World. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
  3. [3]
    "Tim Jankovich Named Men's Basketball Associate Head Coach". smumustangs.com. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
  4. [4]
    "Ex-ISU coach Jankovich named head coach at SMU". smumustangs.com. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  5. [5]
    "USBWA > News > 2016-17 Men's All-District Teams".
  6. [6]
    "SMU's Ojeleye Named Player, Scholar-Athlete of the Year as American Awards Announced".
  7. [7]
    "SMU men's basketball coach Tim Jankovich announces retirement". espn.com. 22 March 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
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