SMU (0-5, 0-1 AAC) at Temple (0-3, 0-0 AAC)
McGonigle Hall – Philadelphia, Pa.
Dec. 20, 2020 – 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. CT
TV: ESPN+ | Radio: KAAM 770 AM
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SMU plays at Temple Sunday at 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. CT on ESPN+

ABOUT SMU
• SMU played four non-conference games, including a top-15 team and another receiving votes in the polls.
• The Mustangs are 0-5, including an overtime loss at home to Texas State. 
• Freshmen led the way at Oklahoma State, scoring 26 points in a 75-63 loss.
• Kayla White scores a team-best 11.0 ppg.
• Amber Bacon and Rhyle McKinney average 9.5 points.
• McKinney averages 30.7 minutes per game, and has four 10-point performances.

OPPONENT - TEMPLE
• Head Coach - Tonya Cardoza
     • 13th season
     • 227-165 at Temple
• Mia Davis leads the team with 24.3 points per game.
• Temple is 0-3 this season, and the Owls are playing their first conference game.

SERIES HISTORY
• SMU is 4-7 all-time against Temple in a series that started with the inception of the American Athletic Conference in 2013. 
• SMU is 0-6 against the Owls in Philadelphia.

KAYLA WHITE
• Kayla White leads the team in scoring with 11.0 points per game. 
• After being held to four points at Texas, she has reached double figures in three of the last four games. 
• White scored a season-high 18 points against Texas State.
• White was one rebound shy of her first double-double, grabbing nine with 15 points against then-No. 14 Arkansas. 
• Set her career high with 22 points at Rice as a freshman on Dec. 15, 2018. White then matched it with 22 points against North Dakota on Dec. 9, 2019, during her sophomore campaign.

RHYLE McKINNEY
• Rhyle McKinney has played at least 20 minutes in every game, averaging a team-high 30.7 minutes per game.
• McKinney is second on the team with 9.6 points per game.
• After going 1-for-5 from the field for two points at Texas in her collegiate debut, McKinney has scored at least 10 points in each of the last four games.
• She shot .313 against then-No. 14 Arkansas, going 5-for-16 to score 13 points.
• McKinney's season-high 13 points first came at Oklahoma State on Dec. 7, 2020. She made all six free throws attempted.
• McKinney is 10-of-10 at the free throw line this season.

REAGAN BRADLEY
• Reagan Bradley leads the team in rebounding with 6.2 per game. 
• The guard grabbed a season-high nine at Oklahoma State, and has at least five in all five games. 
• Bradley set her career high with 10 rebounds at Tulsa on Feb. 15, 2020.
• Bradley is second on the team with nine assists.
• A 2019-20 The American All-Freshman Team selection is scoring 4.8 points per game.
• Bradley scored a season-high nine points against Texas State.
• Her career high is 18 points scored against George Mason on Dec. 31, 2019. 

BRISHONNE TOLLIE
• Returning from a season-ending knee injury suffered 11 games into last season, BriShonne Tollie is averaging 4.5 points with 5.8 rebounds, second on the team.
• She scored 10 points with nine rebounds at Oklahoma State, both season highs.
• Tollie scored a career-high 19 points against Rice as a sophomore on Nov. 13, 2019.
• She grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds on Nov. 20, 2019.
• Tollie has two career double-doubles. 

AMBER BACON
• Amber Bacon has played in three games, averaging 8.0 points. 
• Bacon leads the team with eight steals.
• She stole four from Texas State and ECU, matching her career high.
• Bacon scored 13 points against Texas.
• Her career high is 18 points scored on Nov. 18, 2018 at TCU.
• The guard is shooting 42.9 percent from the field (9-of-21).

JAHNARIA BROWN
• Jahnaria Brown leads the team with six blocks, knocking away three against then-No. 14 Arkansas.
• Brown averages 5.8 points with a season-high eight at Oklahoma State.
• She has scored at least seven three times.
• Brown averages 4.6 rebounds, with eight against Arkansas. 

TAMIA JONES
• Tamia Jones has played in all five games with one start.
• Jones scored a season-high five points against Texas and again at Oklahoma State.
• She is averaging 3.2 points per game.
• The freshman is tied for second on the team with eight assists.

DESIRAE MATHIS
• Desirae Mathis has played in two games, averaging 13.4 minutes.
• Mathis scored seven points at Texas.
• Her career high is 13 points against Memphis on March 6, 2020.

ARIANA WHITFIELD
• Ariana Whitfield has played in each of the last four games, averaging 7.1 minutes. 
• She scored six points against Arkansas.
• All four field goals made are 3-pointers.
• Whitfield is 4-for-6 outside the arc, 66.7 percent.

JAYLA BROOKS
• Jayla Brooks has played in the last three games, averaging 15.3 minutes.
• Brooks scored eight points at Oklahoma State, knocking down a pair of 3's.

ALEXIS LEGGETT 
• Alexis Leggett has played in three games, averaging 11.4 points.
• Leggett scored her lone field goal at Texas, and had a block against Oklahoma State.

PAIGE BAYLISS
• Paige Bayliss scored a season-high nine points against Texas State.
• Her career high is 15 scored against ECU on March 8, 2019.
• She also had nine rebounds against Texas State, and averages 3.3 for the season. 
• Bayliss has two career double-doubles.

FLORENCE TSHIMANGA
• Florence Tshimanga has played in two games, averaging four minutes.
• She scored two points in each game, and grabbed a rebound against Arkansas.

JAQUIA WHITE
• JaQuia White has played in three games, averaging 15.8 minutes.
• White scored in all three games, with four points at Texas.

FRESHMEN LEADING THE WAY
• In the 12-point loss at Oklahoma State, 75-63, SMU's three freshmen accounted for more than 40 percent of the scoring with 26 combined points. 
• Rhyle McKinney led the team with 13 points in a team-high 35:26, while Jayla Brooks, eight, and Tamia Jones, five, combined for 13 points in 14 minutes each. 

YOUTHFUL EXPERIENCE
• Of the seven players who averaged more than 20 minutes for the Mustangs last season, five were sophomores and one was a freshman. Not counting Brishonne Tollie, who suffered a season-ending knee injury 11 games into the season, all of the underclassmen played in more than 20 games with at least 15 starts. Reagan Bradley started all 29 games with a team-high 34 minutes.

ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
• Reagan Bradley is the third Travis Mays recruit in as many seasons to earn an American Athletic Conference All-Freshman Team selection. 
• Bradley finished the season ranked second in the league with 4.5 assists per game. 
•  Bradley set the SMU freshman record with 129 assists.
• Ariana Whitfield was named to the 2017-18 all-freshman team, while Kayla White earned a selection after leading SMU in scoring in 2018-19.

Prior to the national anthem, the SMU women's basketball team and coaching staff knelt in unison against racism and social injustice. The team issued a statement that was read over the public address system, stating:

"We matter because our lives are valuable and we have a right to live free of discrimination. We are student-athletes with unique identities that should be respected and valued on and off the court. Our voices matter, and we have the right to speak up about injustices we face in this country. We have the power to point out the inequities that harm us. I Matter. You Matter. We Matter. Black Lives Matter."
SMU student-athlete Ra-Sun Kazadi designed a uniform patch to represent the unity among SMU student-athletes in their united fight against racial injustice. 

Ra-Sun is a member of the SMU football team and the Black Student-Athlete Committee (BSAC) and is a leader in the fight for social justice through his artwork and ever-evolving voice.

The BSAC and SAAC worked in coordination to adopt this patch with a word/phrase of their choice across the various teams in the department. 

The Kazadi-designed patch will be worn by most SMU athletic teams beginning Winter/Spring 2021. The football team previously adopted their own patch with the phrase "Great Family", as they were the first team to compete, and the women's basketball team had decided to adopt the patch football used with their own phase, "We Matter". The patch on the men's basketball uniform states "Unity". Other programs chose phrases such as "Together As One", "We Stand Together", "Rise Up", "Equality", "We Are ONE", "I Am Because We Are", "Stronger Together" and "Be The Change".

All are worn to promote and to continue to create awareness around anti-racism and social justice.