Last week, a Dallas Morning News article detailed the stories of eight former SMU women’s basketball players and their accusations against head coach Travis Mays, who they claim fostered a debilitating and traumatic culture amongst players and coaching staff during the 2017-18 season, Mays’s second as head coach at SMU.
The story came after a blog post published in late January by former player Klara Bradshaw highlighted disturbing details of the “verbal teardowns” that encapsulated her experience playing under Mays.