SMU does indeed care about building a winning program in women’s college basketball.
That’s what the Mustangs have shown by hiring Adia Barnes away from Arizona.
Less than a week after new athletic director Damon Evans fired former coach Toyelle Wilson after four unremarkable seasons, he got the folks in power at SMU to open up their checkbook to go poach a sitting Power 4 head coach — and one that was in the national title game just five years ago — to lead the program in the ACC. Sources confirmed to SB Nation early Saturday morning that Barnes will be the new coach of the Mustangs.
Barnes’ move
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