CBS: SMU Still Tops in American

[Harry0569]

http://mweb.cbssports.com/ncaab/eye-on- ... r-hawkeyes

SMU is still the team to beat in the American

The Ponies aren’t eligible to play in the postseason next spring, but that doesn’t mean they’re not going to hold serve in their own conference.

SMU (7-0) beat Michigan by 24 points on Tuesday night and Markus Kennedy -- an All-AAC first-team player -- didn’t score a point or grab a single rebound because he left the game early with an ankle injury.

This is all happening without Larry Brown, who will return to the bench on late-December after serving a nine-game NCAA suspension.

The Ponies have one of the better point guards in the country in Nic Moore, two veteran big men in Kennedy and Jordan Tolbert as well as several capable perimeter players in Keith Frazier, Sterling Brown, and freshman Shake Milton.

There’s a strong chance that this team could enter league play undefeated as long as it gets by a potential game with Colorado at the Las Vegas Classic when Brown returns in December.

SMU won’t be able to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament, but until Cincinnati and UConn prove otherwise this is still the team to beat in the American Conferenc

[sadderbudweiser]

Colorado is 7-1 right now after a season opening loss to Iowa State. The seven wins haven't been against much but the possibility exists that the final game of that tournament could be between two teams with one loss between them.

[gostangs]

Don't sleep on Nichols state. Just saying.