Morgan Bolton walked out onto the Moody Coliseum floor for pregame shootaround and saw the stands full of purple.
Abilene Christian loaded two charter buses of fans and drove three hours to Dallas. Plenty more came on their own. They outnumbered SMU fans in the building, there to watch a team in its fourth year playing Division I women’s basketball.
“We had to have a really great start,” Bolton said. “We didn’t want their fans to get excited and out-yell our fans.”
SMU did just that. Three days after needing a fourth-quarter comeback to beat Louisiana Tech in overtime, the Mustangs (19-14) scored the game’s first seven points and never trailed in a 59-52 win vs.