{{Short description|American basketball coach (born 1959)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Tim Jankovich | image = | alt = | caption = | current_title = | current_team = | current_conference = | current_record = | contract = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|6|4}} | birth_place = Gary, Indiana, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = | player_years1 = 1977–1978 | player_team1 = Washington State | player_years2 = 1979–1982 | player_team2 = Kansas State | coach_years1 = 1983–1984 | coach_team1 = Texas–Pan American (GA) | coach_years2 = 1984–1986 | coach_team2 = Kansas State (assistant) | coach_years3 = 1986–1987 | coach_team3 = Texas (assistant) | coach_years4 = 1987–1991 | coach_team4 = Colorado State (associate HC) | coach_years5 = 1991–1992 | coach_team5 = Baylor (assistant) | coach_years6 = 1992–1993 | coach_team6 = Oklahoma State (assistant) | coach_years7 = 1993–1997 | coach_team7 = North Texas | coach_years8 = 1997–1999 | coach_team8 = Hutchinson CC | coach_years9 = 1999–2002 | coach_team9 = Vanderbilt (assistant) | coach_years10 = 2002–2003 | coach_team10 = Illinois (assistant) | coach_years11 = 2003–2007 | coach_team11 = Kansas (assistant) | coach_years12 = 2007–2012 | coach_team12 = Illinois State | coach_years13 = 2012–2016 | coach_team13 = SMU (associate HC) | coach_years14 = 2016–2022 | coach_team14 = SMU | overall_record = {{winpct|282|185|record=y}} (college) | bowl_record = | tournament_record = 0–1 (NCAA Division I)<br/>3–6 (NIT) | championships = AAC tournament (2017)<br>AAC regular season (2017) | awards = AAC Coach of the Year (2017)<br>USBWA District 7 Coach of the Year (2017) | coaching_records = }} '''Timothy Robert Jankovich''' (born June 4, 1959)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careercoach|title = NCAA® Career Statistics}}</ref> is an American former 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.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jason |last=Elmquist |title=Ex-KU assistant enjoys first year, Illinois State's Jankovich scouting Kansas AAU tourney |url=http://www2.kusports.com/news/2008/jul/29/exku_assistant_enjoys_first_year/?mens_basketball |work=Lawrence Journal-World |date=July 29, 2008 |accessdate=2008-07-29}}</ref> He was an assistant basketball coach at Kansas for four years, and served under current Kansas head coach Bill Self at Kansas and Illinois.
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, 2012, SMU announced Jankovich as its associate head coach and coach-in-waiting,<ref>{{cite web|title=Tim Jankovich Named Men's Basketball Associate Head Coach|url=http://www.smumustangs.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/042612aad.html|publisher=smumustangs.com|accessdate=27 April 2012|archive-date=April 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429044323/http://www.smumustangs.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/042612aad.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and he was announced as head coach on July 8, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ex-ISU coach Jankovich named head coach at SMU|date=8 July 2016|url=http://www.wjbc.com/2016/07/08/ex-isu-coach-jankovich-named-head-coach-at-smu/|publisher=smumustangs.com|accessdate=8 July 2016}}</ref> On March 7, 2017, Jankovich was selected as the coach of the year for USBWA district VII.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sportswriters.net/usbwa/news/2017/alldistrict170307.html|title=USBWA > News > 2016-17 Men's All-District Teams}}</ref> On March 9, 2017, he was named American Athletic Conference Coach of the year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theamerican.org/news/2017/3/8/MBB_0308172157.aspx|title = SMU's Ojeleye Named Player, Scholar-Athlete of the Year as American Awards Announced| date=9 March 2017 }}</ref>
On March 22, 2022, Jankovich announced his retirement.<ref>{{cite web|title=SMU men's basketball coach Tim Jankovich announces retirement|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/33571796/smu-men-basketball-coach-tim-jankovich-announces-retirement|work=espn.com|date=22 March 2022 |accessdate=5 April 2022}}</ref>
Jankovich and his wife, Cindy, have a son, Michael. The family resides in Dallas, Texas.
==Head coaching record==
===College=== {{CBB Yearly Record Start | type = | conference = | postseason = | poll = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead | name = North Texas Mean Green | conference = Southland Conference | startyear = 1993 | endyear = 1996 }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1993–94 | name = North Texas | overall = 14–15 | conference = 9–9 | confstanding = 4th | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1994–95 | name = North Texas | overall = 14–13 | conference = 9–9 | confstanding = 4th | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1995–96 | name = North Texas | overall = 15–13 | conference = 12–6 | confstanding = 2nd | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead | name = North Texas Mean Green | conference = Big West Conference | startyear = 1996 | endyear = 1997 }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1996–97 | name = North Texas | overall = 10–16 | conference = 5–11 | confstanding = 5th <small>(East)</small> | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = North Texas | overall = {{winpct|53|57|record=y}} | confrecord = {{winpct|35|35|record=y}} }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Illinois State Redbirds | conference = Missouri Valley Conference | startyear = 2007 | endyear = 2012 }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 2007–08 | name = Illinois State | overall = 25–10 | conference = 13–5 | confstanding = 2nd | postseason = NIT second round }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 2008–09 | name = Illinois State | overall = 24–10 | conference = 11–7 | confstanding = 3rd | postseason = NIT first round }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 2009–10 | name = Illinois State | overall = 22–11 | conference = 11–7 | confstanding = 3rd | postseason = NIT first round }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 2010–11 | name = Illinois State | overall = 12–19 | conference = 4–14 | confstanding = T–9th | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 2011–12 | name = Illinois State | overall = 21–14 | conference = 9–9 | confstanding = T–3rd | postseason = NIT second round }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Illinois State | overall = {{winpct|104|64|record=y}} | confrecord = {{winpct|48|42|record=y}} }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead | name = SMU Mustangs | conference = American Athletic Conference | startyear = 2016 | endyear = 2022 }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 2015–16 | name = SMU | overall = 9–0{{#tag:ref|Jankovich served as interim head coach during the first nine games of the 2015–16 season and is credited by SMU with those victories.|group=n|name=Interim}} | conference = 0–0 | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = confboth | season = 2016–17 | name = SMU | overall = 30–5 | conference = 17–1 | confstanding = 1st | postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64 }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 2017–18 | name = SMU | overall = 17–16 | conference = 6–12 | confstanding = 9th | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 2018–19 | name = SMU | overall = 15–17 | conference = 6–12 | confstanding = T–9th | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 2019–20 | name = SMU | overall = 19–11 | conference = 9–9 | confstanding = 7th | postseason = No postseason held }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 2020–21 | name = SMU | overall = 11–6 | conference = 7–4 | confstanding = 4th | postseason = NIT first round }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 2021–22 | name = SMU | overall = 24–9 | conference = 13–4 | confstanding = 2nd | postseason = NIT second round }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = SMU | overall = {{winpct|125|64|record=y}} | confrecord = {{winpct|58|42|record=y}} }} {{CBB Yearly Record End | overall = {{winpct|282|185|record=y}} | conference = {{winpct|141|119|record=y}} }}
===Junior college=== {{CBB Yearly Record Start | type = | conference = | postseason = | poll = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Hutchinson Blue Dragons | conference = Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference | startyear = 1997 | endyear = 1999 }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | season = 1997–98 | name = Hutchinson | overall = 27–6 | conference = 12–4 | confstanding = 3rd | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | season = 1998–99 | name = Hutchinson | overall = 23–8 | conference = 10–6 | confstanding = T–3rd | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Hutchinson | overall = {{winpct|50|14|record=y}} | confrecord = {{winpct|22|8|record=y}} }} {{CBB Yearly Record End | overall = {{winpct|50|14|record=y}} | conference = {{winpct|22|8|record=y}} | legend = no }}
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==External links== * [https://smumustangs.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1068 SMU profile]
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