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Traore finishes alley-oop from Miller, puts Ponies back ahead, 16-15

Cross puts back his own miss
SMU 18, Cuse 16

Chris Bell ΓÇö who took over for Taylor the first time the teams met ΓÇö drills a 3 to put the Orange back up, 19-18

Syracuse has missed 6 of last 8 shots

Cross misses, gets his rebound, gets foul ΓÇö Chris Bell now the second Syracuse shooting guard with a pair of fouls

Cross hits 1 of 2, ties it 19-19

Mustangs triple-team Lampkin in the low post, pinning him against the baseline ... and manage to knock the ball out of bounds off the TCU transfer

Boopie Miller doing Boopie Miller things: gets the ball from Yi─ƒito─ƒlu, starts upcourt and then hits the brakes, getting run over by Lampkin, who sits with his second foul.

Miller hits both FTs, SMU leads 25-21

Oquendo cans back-to-back 3s to stretch SMU lead to 31-22

Starling and Davis answer with back-to-back 3s

SMU 31, Syracuse 28

HALFTIME

SMU 31, Syracuse 28

SMU first-half leaders

Points: Oquendo, Harris, Miller (6)
Field goals: Edwards, Miller, Harris, Oquendo, Traore (2)
3-point field goals: Oquendo (2)
Free throws: Cross (2)
Rebounds: Cross (4)
Offensive rebounds: Cross (2)
Assists: Ambrose-Hylton, Miller (2)
Fouls: Ambrose-Hylton, Harris, Miller (1)
Turnovers: Cross, Harris, Miller (1)
Blocked shots: G├╢rener (3)
Steals: Edwards (2)
Minutes: Miller (17)
Plus/minus: Miller (+6)

Cross draws a pair of defenders, feeds Yi─ƒito─ƒlu for big dunk

Different SMU defense: when these teams met last week, Syracuse turned the ball over 14 times

Syracuse has turned the ball over 10 times, SMU 4 ... with 17:53 to go in second half.

Starling drives the lane to the rim ΓÇö gets absolutely stuffed by Cross's two-handed block.

Seconds later, Harris nails a 3

SMU 38, Syracuse 28

Ponies start second half on 10-0 run, holding Syracuse scoreless for the first 5:35 in the second half

Davis breaks out with a layup and 3

41-33 SMU