Hilltop Visits: SMU Basketball coach Toyelle Wilson
Toyelle Wilson begins her fourth season leading the SMU women’s basketball program. She’s led the Mustangs to the WNIT twice and had to help her team through an injury-plagued 2023-24 campaign.
Wilson and her staff mined the NCAA transfer portal to find scoring and low post presence as the Mustangs prepare their inaugural season in the ACC. This is a conference with great women’s basketball. It sent seven teams to the 2024 NCAA tournament.
Wilson talks about her 2024-25 SMU team, the challenges of the ACC along with NIL advantages and the transfer portal with Hilltop Visits.
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For Wilson’s Mustangs, they’re entering a premier college basketball conference. SMU will have to be on point with their fundamentals as the season gets underway, she said earlier this month.
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“Just really fast-paced basketball, hard-nosed toughness, grittiness. Just an exciting game of basketball. Scoring the ball,” Wilson said of the ACC at ACC Tip-Off. “But something that’s actually going to be entertaining on the floor that will give the fans something to cheer about.”
“I think just my biggest thing, and this is just in general, you can’t turn the ball over, and you have to be able it rebound the basketball,” Wilson added of her points of emphasis. “You can’t give up second chances. Those are the two biggest things that I harp on in practice, and you can ask them, you know, some drills are it if you turn it over, if you give up an offensive rebound, we’re going to run for it because you won’t last. It will go from 0-0 to 10-0 run in an instance in the ACC. I’ve seen it happen.”
