| Tim Jankovich | |
| Birth Date: | 4 June 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Gary, Indiana, U.S. |
| 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: | (college) |
| Tournament Record: | 0–1 (NCAA Division I) 3–6 (NIT) |
| 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.
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.