SMU (0-3) vs. No. 13 Arkansas (5-1)
Moody Coliseum – Dallas, Texas
Dec. 9, 2020 – 7 p.m.
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SMU hosts No. 13 Arkansas Wednesday night in the last game before starting American Athletic Conference games against ECU at home on Dec. 16.

ABOUT SMU
• The Mustangs lost 90-51 at (RV/RV) Texas to start the season.
• SMU suffered overtime heartbreak in a 74-70 loss to Texas State at home.
• Freshmen led the way at Oklahoma State, scoring 26 points in a 75-63 loss.
• Kayla White scores a team-best 11.3 ppg.
• Amber Bacon averages 9.5 points.
• Freshman Tamia Jones had a team-high 3 assists and scored five points.
• Freshman Rhyle McKinney averages 32.6 minutes per game, and scores 8.3 points with two 10-point performances.

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, 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.Freshman Reagan Bradley started all 29 games and averaged 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.

OPPONENT - No. 13 ARKANSAS
• Head Coach - Mike Neighbors
     • Third season at Arkansas
     • .600 win percentage at Arkansas
• Only loss this season is a 115-96 neutral-site loss to then-No. 12 Maryland.
• Chelsea Dungee leads the team with 19.0 points per game, and is one of four players averaging double figures.
• Arkansas averages 93.7 points as a team.

SERIES HISTORY
• SMU is 5-21 against Arkansas overall.
• This is the first meeting since Nov. 18, 2010, a 76-71 SMU win in Dallas.
• SMU is 3-11 all-time at home, with wins in two of the last three home games.
• The Mustangs won the first game in the series, a 69-58 home win on Dec. 6, 1980. 

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.