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Mustangs (1-2) and Purple Aces (1-2) tip off at 2 PM at Moody Coliseum

Evansville started the season with a 78-74 win at Miami (Ohio), and then lost at St. Louis (83-65) and at home to SEMO (67-61)

The Purple Aces are led in scoring by two players averaging in double figures: 6-6 guard Kenny Strawbridge (17.7 points per game) and 6-10 forward Yacine Toumi (14.0 PPG)

As a team through three games, Evansville is shooting .372 from the field (including .242 from three-point range), compared to .455 (.365 from long range) by its opponents.

Evansville opponents hitting .891 from the FT line — Purple Aces shooting .696 from the line

STARTERS

Evansville
G 00 Gage Bobe
G 4 Marvin Coleman
G 20 Kenny Strawbridge
F 10 Yacine Toumi
F 22 Sekou Kalle

SMU
G 1 Zhuric Phelps
G 3 Stefan Todorovic
G 10 Zach Nutall
F 11 Samuell Williamson
F 23 Efe Odigie

Odijie with short baby hook makes it 2-2

Brrrrrrr ....

Evansville has hit 1 of first 4 field goals
SMU has hit 1 of first 5

Nutall for 3
Strawbridge answers with a 2

SMU 5-4

SMU leads 7-4 ... in points and in rebounds

Blaise Beauchamp 3 trims MSU lead to 9-7

Jalen Smith, Xavier Foster, Keon Ambrose-Hylton in

Evansville shooting 4/13 (30.8%)
SMU shooting 3/23 (25%)

9-9
11:54 to go in half

Shooting percentages

Evansville: 26.3
SMU: 16.7

Evansville leads, 11-9

Nutall layup ties it at 11-11 — first SMU bucket in last 7:42

Toumi jumper puts Evansville up, but Nutall answers with a 3 — SMU 14-13

Both teams with an airball and a shot into the side of the backboard

Evansville has missed 12 of its last 16 — 2 made buckets on dunks
SMU has missed 16 of last 18

oof.