The Dallas Morning News
New women's basketball head coach Travis Mays poses for a photograph with his team after he was introduced at SMU in Moody Coliseum in Dallas Friday April 8, 2016. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)
UNIVERSITY PARK - As SMU searched for a women’s basketball coach, one name kept surfacing again and again.
Even though Travis Mays had never been a college head coach, he had done nearly everything else and people said he was poised to take the next step. SMU officials heard the same thing during the football search that landed Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris, so much so that school president R.