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SMU Postgame Notes – January 30, 2010
Conference USA Game
at SMU 70, Memphis 60
SMU Mustangs (10-10, 3-3 C-USA), Memphis Tigers (15-6, 5-2 C-USA)
Moody Coliseum
Dallas, Texas

NEXT GAME: SMU travels to Southern Miss for the first game of a two-game road trip on Tuesday, February 2nd at 7 p.m. in USM’s Reed Green Coliseum. The Mustangs return to Moody Coliseum on Wednesday, February 10 at 7 p.m. as they play host to UTEP.

TEAM

- This is Memphis’ first C-USA road loss in 1429 days and 27 games, their last loss being a 80-74 defeat at UAB on March 2, 2006.

-This is just Memphis’ second C-USA loss in their last 68 C-USA games (66-2), stretching back to 2005-06.

-The Mustangs are now riding a four game winning streak. The Mustangs have won these three games by an average margin of 13.5 points.

-This is the fourth time this year that SMU has had two 20+ point scorers (Derek Williams and Papa Dia). SMU has had two 20+ point scorers in three of their last four games.

-Had a player record a double-double for the second straight game. Derek Williams recorded a double-double against UCF (12 pts, 10 reb), and Papa Dia had a double-double today (23 pts, 14 reb).

-This is the first time since 2002-03 that SMU has defeated their league’s defending regular season champion. SMU had wins against both Tulsa and Hawai’i in 2002-03, who were 2001-02 WAC co-champions.

-Memphis scored just 4 points on 12 second-chance opportunities

INDIVIDUAL

Papa Dia
-Scored a career-high 23 points, 12 of which came in the first half, besting his previous high of 21 points, most recently accomplished on 1/20/2010 at Rice.
-Collected the 9th double-double of his career with 23 pts and 14 reb. This is his sixth double-double of the seaso.
-This is his second 20+ point scoring effort of the season, and third of his career.
-Reached double figures for the 14th time this season and 32nd time of his career. He now has scored 10+ points in 11 of his last 13 games.
-Tied a career-high with 14 rebounds. His previous 14 reb game came on 12/30/2009 against Army.
-This is his 7th double-digit rebounding effort of the season and 11th of his career
-Set a career-high with 11 free throws made. His previous high was 8, set on 3/8/2008 at Rice.

Robert Nyakundi
-Set a season-high with 6 rebounds.

Derek Williams
-Scored 25 points, his seventh 20+ point scoring game of the season and the 7th of his career.
-This is his fourth 25+ point scoring game of his career.
-Made a career-high 14 free throws.
-This is his 17th double-digit scoring effort of the season and the 37th double-digit scoring effort of his career.
-Has scored 10+ points in his last 13 games, and 16 of his last 17.
-Scored 8 or more points in every game this season, and has scored 8+ in 24 straight games, dating back to last season

And Dia had 2 blocks for 23 on the season.

The extreme example in SMU Sports was probably the 1949 football game with Notre Dame. The Cotton Bowl was full and today we survivors must be pretty well thinned out. But at one time I'll bet that if you counted all the wishful thinkers and story tellers as well as those who were there, well the number would have been greater than the capacity of the stadium.

This basketball game with Memphis might turn out to be a little the same way. Five years from now a lot of folks who could barely could find their way to the campus may tell folks they were there the day SMU won 70 - 60.

I've made this long introduction to ask the questions. What was the attendance? How would you describe the crowd?

I've made this long introduction to ask the questions. What was the attendance? How would you describe the crowd?

Attendance was a little over 4,000...but the crowd was energetic and really into it.