SMU Daily Campus · Nov 23, 2016
Mustangs respond to first loss with 84-57 win over UCSB
When SMU fell to Michigan in the finals of the 2K Classic last Friday, head coach Tim Jankovich was not too concerned. While losing is never fun, SMU’s new head coach sees losses as learning opportunities. Now the question was how the Mustangs would respond coming off their first double-digit loss since 2014.
The Mustangs rebounded with a 84-57 win over UC-Santa Barbara, a team that took SMU to overtime when it visited Moody Coliseum two seasons ago.
Photo credit: Reece Kelley Graham“I’m not surprised we came out and played this way,” Jankovich said in the postgame press conference. “I really appreciate their character, their resolve, this is pretty important to them.”