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Travis Mays Changing SMU Women's Basketball

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The article below is from the Dallas Morning News .  It talks about how new head coach Travis Mays has began the process of turning around the SMU Women's basketball program in his first year.  I have put in red some the takeaways that I have found as a coach also in his first year leading a new program.  You can find the original article here . UNIVERSITY PARK -- It took all of one practice, and countless eye rolls, for the SMU women's basketball team to realize how different things would be under new coach Travis Mays. The Importance of Attention to Details The Mustangs did the three-man weave. Then they did it again, and again, and ... "The whole 45-minute workout we did the same drill until we got it perfect," junior guard McKenzie Adams said. "We were like, 'What the heck? Forty-five minutes of the same drill?' But those 45 minutes paid off. We're seeing how important it is to pay attention to the details." The changes have no...