Tulsa Falls at SMU on Saturday Night, 77-57

Saturday, January 12

Dallas, Texas

5 PM

Tulsa

11-6, 1-3

SMU

11-5, 3-1

Tulsa

SMU

Photo by: Dave Crenshaw

Tulsa Falls at SMU on Saturday Night, 77-57

1/12/2019 7:38:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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DALLAS — Jeriah Horne tied a career high with four 3-pointers for a team-high 14 points, but Jahmal McMurray scored 22 points as SMU defeated visiting Tulsa, 77-57, at Moody Coliseum on Saturday night.

Horne went 4-for-7 from downtown en route to his 14 points for the Golden Hurricane (11-6, 1-3), while Sterling Taplin added 10 points. The Hurricane shot 35.7-percent and scored 24 points in the paint.

Meanwhile, McMurray made six treys to lead the Mustangs (11-5, 3-1), who also got 18 points from Ethan Chargois. SMU hit 13 3-pointers for the game and scored 20 points off 15 offensive rebounds, while the home team shot 41-percent from the floor.

Tulsa had an 11-10 lead after a back-and-forth start to the contest, but the Mustangs would put together two big runs and outscore the Hurricane 23-6 over a 10-minute stretch to take control. SMU went on a 13-0 run that ended when Jeriah Horne, who finished with 11 first-half points, and Curran Scott each hit 3-pointers.

However, the Mustangs sored the next 10 points for a 33-17 advantage with 3:46 left in the half.

Scott and Horne each hit 3-pointers down the stretch of the period to help Tulsa trim the halftime deficit to 38-27.

Tulsa pushed the ball up the floor early in the second half and scored the first five points of the final period on a layup by DaQuan Jeffries and a three-point play from Scott to pull within 38-32.

But Chargois answered with a triple late in the shot clock to start a 7-0 Mustangs spurt. Lawson Korita scored five straight points for the Hurricane to bring the deficit to 45-37 with 16:42 to play.

McMurray answered again for SMU with three 3-pointers during a 15-5 run. Tulsa then ripped of a 7-0 stretch of its own to make it 60-49 midway through the period before the Mustangs put the game away with a 16-2 run extended the advantage to 76-51 with just 4:15 remaining.

Tulsa will be back in action at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16 when it will host UConn (10-6, 1-2) at the Donald W. Reynolds Center.

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