Madness at Moody

DALLAS — SMU junior guard Ben Emelogu III and the rest of his team had a month to think about that agonizing 66-64 loss at Cincinnati, the one where Sterling Brown’s three point shot in the final 10 seconds looked like it was on target, then rolled off the rim and came to Ben Moore, who missed a put back attempt to tie the score.

Emelogu personally took care of the payback, making a pair of three-pointers and a tie-breaking free throw in a game-deciding 15-0 second half run as the 25th-ranked Mustangs gained a measure of revenge in their American rematch, defeating the 11th-ranked Bearcats, 60-51, before a sellout out crowd of 7,518 at a deafening Moody Coliseum that included former President George W. Bush, who was front and center, sporting his SMU t-shirt.

The win propelled SMU to a half-game lead over Cincinnati in The American, which had won 15 straight games and was unbeaten in conference play. SMU (22-4), which has won 18 of its last 19 games, is 12-1 in The American. Cincinnati (21-3) is 11-1 in a year where the American has become a two-team race at the top with three weeks to play.

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