| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 4, 1959 Gary, Indiana, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1977–1978 | Washington State |
| 1979–1982 | Kansas State |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1983–1984 | Texas–Pan American (GA) |
| 1984–1986 | Kansas State (assistant) |
| 1986–1987 | Texas (assistant) |
| 1987–1991 | Colorado State (associate HC) |
| 1991–1992 | Baylor (assistant) |
| 1992–1993 | Oklahoma State (assistant) |
| 1993–1997 | North Texas |
| 1997–1999 | Hutchinson CC |
| 1999–2002 | Vanderbilt (assistant) |
| 2002–2003 | Illinois (assistant) |
| 2003–2007 | Kansas (assistant) |
| 2007–2012 | Illinois State |
| 2012–2016 | SMU (associate HC) |
| 2016–2022 | SMU |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 282–185 (.604) (college) |
| Tournaments | 0–1 (NCAA Division I) 3–6 (NIT) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| AAC tournament (2017) AAC regular season (2017) | |
| Awards | |
| AAC Coach of the Year (2017) USBWA District 7 Coach of the Year (2017) | |
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.
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.