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SMU (23-10 overall / 13-7 ACC) and UNI (20-12 overall / 14-6 Missouri Valley Conference) open the NIT at 8 PM at Moody Coliseum

Game can be seen on ESPN2

Boopie Miller is not in uniform

UNI is one of the top shooting teams in the country, ranking No. 15 in Div. I and first in MVC with 48.9% field goal percentage.

The Panthers have shot 50% or better in 14 of 32 games.

UNI is second in the MVC in scoring defense, allowing an average of 67.2 points per game.

Panthers are 17-0 when leading at halftime.

UNI is 18-0 when leading with 5 minutes left.

4 Panthers average double digits in scoring, led by first-team all-MVC guard Titan Anderson's 15.3 PPG.

Anderson also was named to the conference's all-defensive team.

Freshman forward Will Hornseth has shot .693 in his first season at UNI, and is on pace to set the program's single-season shooting percentage record.

Not loving seeing No Boopie. Do we k owing this is just a precaution for future games or is he done?

UNI starters
G 3 Max Weisbrod
G 4 Trey Campbell
G 7 Ben Schwieger
G 32 Tytan Anderson
C 11 Jacob Hutson

SMU starters
G 0 B.J. Edwards
G 3 Chuck Harris
G 8 Kario Oquendo
F 33 Matt Cross
C 24 Samet Yiğitoğlu

Anderson opens the scoring with a 3

Edwards layup gets SMU on the board, but Weisbrod sticks a 3 to make it 6-2

Cross 3

6-5

UNI has taken 5 shots — 4 of which have been 3s

PonyPride wrote:Boopie Miller is not in uniform

Ouch. We've seen how this team does without him

Oquendo drains a pair of free throws to give SMU its first lead: 7-6

Görener in for Oquendo

UNI has missed 4 of last 5 FGs

SMU has missed 5 straight

7-7

Must not be much of a crowd. Can hear the ball bounce while folks are dribbling

UNI shooting 33.3% (2/6)
SMU shooting 22.2% (2/9)

ponyte wrote:Must not be much of a crowd. Can hear the ball bounce while folks are dribbling

If there are 1000 people here, including the teams, I’d be shocked. Students are on Spring Break.