SMU MUSTANGS NEWS

No. 14 SMU gunning for share of AAC title (Mar 02, 2017)

SMU can clinch a share of the American Athletic Conference title on Thursday, but it will have to do something that's proven remarkably difficult in recent years: beat Tulsa at ho...

MARCH 2, 2017

Top 25 Capsules

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) Eric Mika had 29 points and 11 rebounds to help BYU upset No. 1 Gonzaga 79-71 on Saturday night, ending the Bulldogs' bid to go undefeated in the final game o...

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Milton scores 20 to help No. 17 SMU beat UConn 69-61 (Feb 25, 2017)

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) It was Shake Milton's turn to be SMU's hot shooter.

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

SMU winning without Brown with another NCAA bid in sight

DALLAS (AP) Larry Brown can't imagine that any coach is doing a better job this season than Tim Jankovich is with short-handed SMU.

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Time running short for Connecticut, which hosts SMU (Feb 25, 2017)

It's still the regular season, but excuse the Connecticut Huskies for feeling that they are playing tournament games every time they take the court.

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Ojeleye, No. 19 SMU rally for 76-66 win over Houston (Feb 18, 2017)

HOUSTON (AP) Trailing by double digits midway through the first half, SMU didn't panic. The Mustangs had the confidence to dig their way o...

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Houston hopes to make impression vs. No. 19 SMU (Feb 18, 2017)

No. 19 Southern Methodist has joined Cincinnati at the top of the American Athletic Conference thanks to its stingy defense. Houston is making a late-season run at an at-large NCA...

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Ojeleye big 2nd half, No. 19 SMU rallies 80-75 over Tulane (Feb 15, 2017)

DALLAS (AP) Now that people are starting to pay attention to No. 19 SMU, maybe they will understand why coach Tim Jankovich keeps talking...

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Top 25 Capsules

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Joel Berry II scored 18 points to help No. 10 North Carolina beat rival North Carolina State 97-73 on Wednesday night to stay alone in first place in the Atlan...

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Ojeleye big 2nd half, No. 19 SMU rallies 80-75 over Tulane (Feb 15, 2017)

DALLAS (AP) Semi Ojeleye scored 16 of his 18 points in the second half, including consecutive 3-pointers in the SMU run that finally put t...

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

No. 19 SMU looks to stay hot versus Tulane (Feb 15, 2017)

Teams heading in opposite directions collide when Tulane visits No. 19 SMU on Wednesday night.

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Short-handed No. 19 SMU leading AAC, has won 18 of last 19

DALLAS (AP) SMU coach Tim Jankovich is getting to the point that he doesn't panic when he looks to his bench during games and sees the few...

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

AP POLL ALERT: Gonzaga, Villanova, Kansas stay Nos. 1-3 in men's hoops; SMU rises, Cincinnati falls after upset

NEW YORK (AP) AP POLL ALERT: Gonzaga, Villanova, Kansas stay Nos. 1-3 in men's hoops; SMU rises, Cincinnati falls after upset.

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Top 25 Capsules

MADISON, Wis. (AP) Bryant McIntosh scored 25 points, and defensive-minded Northwestern beat No. 7 Wisconsin 66-59 on Sunday, securing an important win for the school's bid to mak...

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

No. 25 SMU snaps No. 11 Cincinnati's 15-game win streak (Feb 12, 2017)

DALLAS (AP) Ben Emelogu acknowledged that SMU players would have been lying if they said Cincinnati wasn't on their minds.

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

No. 1 UConn wins 99th straight, 83-41 over SMU (Feb 11, 2017)

STORRS, Conn. (AP) Geno Auriemma took a moment to enjoy his UConn Huskies' 99th straight victory - then turned his attention to No. 100 an...

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

AAC front-runners Cincinnati, SMU meet again (Feb 12, 2017)

The top teams in the American Athletic Conference will clash for the second time in four weeks on Sunday when No. 11 Cincinnati faces No. 25 Southern Methodist at Moody Coliseum i...

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Syracuse's Carrier Dome success bolstering NCAA resume

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Syracuse entered January looking headed to a season of disappointment and possibly missing the NCAA Tournament a year a...

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Top 25 Capsules

LOS ANGELES (AP) Nigel Williams-Goss had 19 points and 11 rebounds and No. 1 Gonzaga continued its roll Thursday night with a 90-60 victory over Loyola Marymount.

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Ojeleye drops in 30 to power No. 25 SMU past Temple, 66-50 (Feb 09, 2017)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) SMU coach Tim Jankovich was a little apprehensive how his team would perform three days after earning its first national...

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

No. 25 SMU faces tough task in Temple (Feb 09, 2017)

Playing its best basketball of the season, No. 25 Southern Methodist University has a tough trip ahead to play a Temple program that's made a habit of pulling off top-25 upsets.

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Brown propels SMU past Tulsa 76-53 (Feb 04, 2017)

TULSA, Okla. (AP) Sterling Brown scored 24 of his 27 points in the second half and SMU rolled past Tulsa for a 76-53 win Saturday night.

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

SMU sweeps East Carolina with 40 point blowout win (Feb 01, 2017)

DALLAS (AP) Shake Milton and Semi Ojeleye each scored 19 points and SMU earned the season sweep of East Carolina with an 86-46 victory on Wednesday night.

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Top Twenty Five

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 29, total points based on 25 points for a first-plac...

JANUARY 30, 2017