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Mustangs (16-5) and Cardinlal (15-6) tip off at 5 p.m. at Moody Coliseum. The teams are tied for fourth in the ACC with record of 7-3 in conference games.

The game can be seen on ACC Network.

SMU freshman center Samet Yiğitoğlu, who missed Wednesday's game against Cal with an injured shoulder, is in uniform and on the floor, warming up with his teammates.

SMU comes into today having won its last two and five if its last six games.

Stanford enters today's game on a four-game winning streak and wins in six of its last seven games.

Stanford starters
G 4 Oziyah Sellers
G 5 Benny Gealer
G 11 Ryan Agarwal
F 42 Maxime Raynaud
F 52 Aidan Cammann

SMU starters
G 0 B.J. Edwards
G 2 Boopie Miller
G 3 Chuck Harris
F 33 Matt Cross
C 24 Samet Yiğitoğlu

Senior forward Maxime Raynaud (7-1, 245) is a force, averaging 20.5 points per game and 11.9 rebounds per game.

He's shooting .488 (163/334) from the floor and is dangerous from behind the three-point line, shooting .351 (39/111) from long range.

If not for some freshman at Duke, this guy would be very much in the running for ACC Player of the Year honors.

Defending Raynaud is going to require a lot more than just sticking Yiğitoğlu on him and letting the two big guys battle it out.

Mustangs start out in a zone, with Yiğitoğlu jumping out to the perimeter when it looks like Raynaud is going to shoot.

Raynaud and Cross trade hoops to start the scoring.

Cross 3 puts the Ponies ahead, 5-2

Raynaud answers to tie it up

Neither team is shooting well — Stanford has hit 2/6 (.333), but SMU has hit 2/9 (.222)

SMU with 7-4 edge in rebounds

Miller puts SMU back in front, 8-5) with quick 3

Oquendo bounces in a 3 to stretch SMU lead to 14-7

The difference(s) so far:

Raynaud has hit 2 of 6 FGs, and SMU has hit 4 of 5 three-pointers

Great D by Harris: Stanford's Christian Okpara picks Cross clean, then gets tied up by Harris to force jump ball.

Nice start for the officials, who have blown two obvious out-of-bounds calls.

Yes, they have a hard job, and the game moves fast, but these weren't those players where two players reach and a call can go either way — VERY obvious and beyond debate. Missed one in favor of each team.