The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season!
Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here.
Memphis Tigers (18-7, 7-5 AAC) at SMU Mustangs (18-7, 9-3 AAC)
Dallas; Sunday, 4 p.m. EST
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Mustangs -5; over/under is 155
BOTTOM LINE: SMU faces the Memphis Tigers after Chuck Harris scored 25 points in SMU’s 87-79 victory against the Tulane Green Wave.
The Mustangs have gone 12-2 at home. SMU averages 16.2 assists per game to lead the AAC, paced by Harris with 3.6.
The Tigers are 7-5 in conference play. Memphis is 5-4 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.
SMU makes 46.0% of its shots from the field this season, which is 4.3 percentage points higher than Memphis has allowed to its opponents (41.7%). Memphis scores 15.0 more points per game (80.2) than SMU allows to opponents (65.2).
TOP PERFORMERS: Zhuric Phelps is scoring 14.6 points per game with 4.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists for the Mustangs. Harris is averaging 14.8 points and 3.2 rebounds while shooting 44.8% over the past 10 games for SMU.
David Jones is shooting 39.9% from beyond the arc with 2.5 made 3-pointers per game for the Tigers, while averaging 21.6 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.2 steals. Jahvon Quinerly is shooting 38.5% and averaging 14.2 points over the past 10 games for Memphis.
LAST 10 GAMES: Mustangs: 8-2, averaging 79.8 points, 38.3 rebounds, 16.9 assists, 9.2 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.4 points per game.
Tigers: 5-5, averaging 83.5 points, 37.6 rebounds, 15.1 assists, 8.7 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.7 points.
___
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
Leave a Reply