Nov. 19, 2010

SMU Season Stats

SMU 69, Portland State 53 - boxscore

Lamar 90, UC-Riverside 75 - boxscore

DALLAS (AP) -Robert Nyakundi had a double-double of 19 points and 10 rebounds to lead SMU past Portland State 69-53 on Friday in the second game of the SMU Invitational.

Papa Dia led all scorers with 20 points for the Mustangs (1-2), and Jeremiah Samarrippas had 10.

Charles Odum came off the bench to pace the Vikings (1-1) with 17 points. Portland State got just 22 points from its starters.

Dia's dunk 1:40 into the game put SMU ahead to stay at 4-3. The lead peaked at 62-39 when Dia scored with 8:02 left in the second half.

The Mustangs outshot the Vikings 47.1 percent (24 of 51) to 40.9 percent (18 of 44) and outrebounded them 30-26. They also had a big edge from 3-point range, hitting 10 of 24 (41.7 percent) to Portland State's 5 of 18 (27.8 percent).

Portland State committed 13 turnovers.

SMU Notes:

• Robert Nyakundi had his first career double-double and the first double-double for SMU this season.
• Robert Nyakundi's 5 3FGM tie a career high
• Robert Nyakundi's 19 points are one short of tying his career high
• Robert Nyakundi's 4 assists tie a career high
• Robert Nyakundi had his 19th career double-digit scoring night and his second of 2010-11
• Jeremiah Samarrippas' 10 points are a career high
• Papa Dia had his sixth 20+ point outing of his career and his first of 2010-11
• SMU made 10 3FGM as a team for the first time since 2/27/2010 against Houston