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Turnover woes help bury Mustangs early; No. 12 Houston defeats SMU 90-79

Here are a few takeaways from SMU's 90-79 loss to No. 12 Houston on Thursday:

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Those are the good kind of turnovers. Turnovers in basketball are much less fun and you can't eat them.

If a team shoots 68 percent from the field in the first half and enters halftime trailing by 9 points, something has gone disastrously wrong. That's what happened to SMU on Thursday night at the Fertitta Center.

The Mustangs' streak of hot shooting was accompanied by an appalling turnover rate. SMU committed 13 first-half turnovers to Houston's 4.