Orlando Sentinel · Jan 11, 2016
UCF basketball falls at No. 15 SMU
DALLAS S— Short-handed No. 15 SMU can make a lot of 3-pointers and also put on quite a show with alley-oop passes that lead to rim-rattling dunks. Except those plays don't generally go hand-in-hand.
Halfway through the season in which they are banned from the postseason because of NCAA infractions, the Mustangs are still undefeated after an 88-73 victory over UCF on Sunday that included an attempted alley-oop that became a 3-pointer.
SMU (15-0, 4-0 American Athletic Conference) took control with an early 15-0 run that included a 57-second span with three 3-pointers. The first of those 3s came when Sterling Brown's alley-oop pass to Jordan Tolbert went through the hoop instead.