SMU 98, Prairie View A&M 63: Toombs Scores 18 as the Mustangs Run Away After Halftime at Moody
SMU led 52-36 at the half and stretched the margin to 42 at its widest, beating Prairie View A&M 98-63 at Moody Coliseum on Tuesday night. Jaden Toombs scored 18 points on 8-of-11 shooting with nine rebounds, five Mustangs reached double figures, and SMU is 3-0 — all at home — with Ball State next on Friday.
DALLAS — SMU turned a working halftime lead into a rout on Tuesday night at Moody Coliseum, beating Prairie View A&M 98-63 in the third game of the Mustangs' season-opening six-game homestand. SMU led 52-36 at the break and outscored the Panthers 46-27 in the second half, building a lead that reached 42 points.
Jaden Toombs led SMU with 18 points on 8-of-11 shooting and a game-high nine rebounds. Jermaine O'Neal Jr. added 14 points, Rowan Brumbaugh and Jakub Szumert scored 11 each, and Johan Munch finished with 10 points on a perfect 3-of-3 from the field, with six rebounds and three blocks. The Mustangs shot 50.8% to Prairie View's 34.8%, won the boards 48-32, and scored 44 points in the paint to the Panthers' 28 — a frontcourt game from start to finish.
Prairie View's Anthony Gause played all 40 minutes and scored a game-high 26 points, hitting five three-pointers, but the Panthers committed 28 fouls and sent SMU to the line 36 times; the Mustangs made 28 of them. Prairie View, which fell to 2-2, came to Dallas off a 68-63 loss at UT Rio Grande Valley on Saturday.
SMU is 3-0, following Thursday's 95-70 win over VMI, and stays home: Ball State visits Moody Coliseum on Friday, Nov. 13. In Fort Worth, TCU's half of Tuesday's Metroplex doubleheader against ULM was still in progress at this file's staging time; its final runs in the next cycle.
