SMU Plays At Arkansas Monday At 7 P.M. On SECN+

SMU (2-1, 0-0 AAC) at [rv] Arkansas (3-1, 0-0 SEC)
Bud Walton Arena - Fayetteville, Ark.
Monday, Nov. 22, 2021 – 7 p.m.
Watch: SECN+
Radio: KAAM 770 AM | Audio Streaming: SMU App (Google Play | Apple App Store)
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Game Notes: SMU | Arkansas | The American
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SMU plays its first road game of the season at Arkansas Monday at 7 p.m. on SECN+. The contest starts a stretch of four of the next five on the road for the Mustangs, who play next in the South Point Shootout in Las Vegas Nov. 25 and 27.

ABOUT SMU
•   SMU is 2-1 with all three games played in Moody Coliseum.
•   Rice transfer Sydne Wiggins leads the team with 12.5 points.
•   Florida State transfer Savannah Wilkinson ranks fourth in the country with double-doubles in the first three games and averages 11.3 points and 10.3 rebounds.
•   SMU is 24th in the NCAA with 6.3 blocks per game and Wilkinson averages 2.0 per game.
•   Rice transfer Jasmine Smith averaged 4.7assists per game, 104th in the NCAA.
•   Top returning scorer Kayla White is averaging 9.3 points after scoring a season-high 15 points against Oral Roberts.

ABOUT ARKANSAS
•   Arkansas is 3-1 overall and receiving votes in the AP Top 25 Poll, and its only loss happened at No. 2 UConn, 95-80.
•   Samara Spencer leads the team with 12.5 points, and Erynn Barnum is scoring 12.0 points per game.
• As a team, the Razorbacks are outscoring opponents 88.8-63.0 and shooting 44.0 percent to 36.9 by opponents.

SERIES HISTORY
•   SMU is 5-22 all-time against Arkansas and just 2-9 on the road against the Razorbacks.
•   The Mustangs lost the last five games in Fayetteville, last winning a road game on Jan. 14, 1989, 84-74.
•   SMU's last win in the series was a 76-71 victory at home on Nov. 18, 2010.
•   The game in 2010 was the last in the series until Arkansas won 79-47 in Dallas last season.

UP NEXT
•   SMU plays in the South Point Shootout in Las Vegas on Nov. 25 and 27.
•   The Mustangs play Seattle Thursday and Green Bay Saturday.

SAVANNAH WILKINSON
Savannah Wilkinson recorded double-doubles in the first three games of the season and ranks fourth in the NCAA in the category. She is 33rd with 10.3 rebounds per game and is sixth in the NCAA with 9.3 defensive rebounds per game. The Florida State transfer averages 11.3 points per game and has six blocks and two steals. She played in more than 70 games in three seasons at Florida State with career highs of 14 points and nine rebounds.

WILKINSON DOUBLE-DOUBLES
Opponent   Date   Points   Rebounds
UMKC   Nov. 9, 2021   10   10
Oklahoma State   Nov. 14, 2021   11   11
Oral Roberts   Nov. 17, 2021   13   10

DANIELLE SANDERLIN
Danielle Sanderlin scored a game-high 20 points in the season opener and averages 7.3 points per game. She scored a career-high 30 points during the 2019-20 season at Canisius, and has now reached 20 points in a game eight times. She went 9-of-12 from the field in her debut at SMU.

SYDNE WIGGINS
Sydne Wiggins scored 15 points in her first game at SMU and had a game-high 14 points against Oklahoma State. She has scored at least 10 points 29 times in her career. She leads SMU with 12.0 points per game. During four seasons at Rice, she scored a career-high 18 points twice. Wiggins made three of SMU's five 3-pointers against UMKC, going 3-for-6 outside the arc. Wiggins won a WNIT championship while at Rice.

JASMINE SMITH
Jasmine Smith had eight of SMU's 22 assists in her debut on the Hilltop. It was the fourth time in her career she finished with eight or more assists in a game. She tallied a career-high 10 assists during Rice's run to the 2021 WNIT championship. Smith scored seven points against UMKC and has a career-high 21 points, eclipsing 20 for the only time in her career during the 2019-20 season. She averages 4.7 assists per game, 104th in the NCAA and fourth in The American. She also had seven points against Oklahoma State and averages 6.3 per game.

KAYLA WHITE
Kayla White started the season with nine points and added a season-high 15 points against Oral Roberts. She averaged double digits in scoring each of the last three seasons, leading the team in two of the three years. She has scored at least 20 points four times, including a career-high 22 points twice. This season, White is averaging 9.3 points per game shooting 40.7 percent.

AMIRAH ABDUR-RAHIM
After missing the first game due to injury, Amirah Abdur-Rahim scored eight points against Oklahoma State in her first game on the Hilltop. She suffered a season-ending knee injury in practice prior to the third game of the season against Oral Roberts.

BOLD: Big Opportunities Live in Dallas
As part of its goal of Shaping Champions and preparing students for life, SMU Athletics proudly announces the addition of its BOLD (Big Opportunities Live in Dallas) Program to its suite of student-athlete development tools, with the goal of helping student-athletes navigate and capitalize on new Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) legislation.

BOLD will provide SMU student-athletes with the means to navigate the evolving NIL landscape. The BOLD program will incorporate INFLCR, a comprehensive NIL education and compliance solution, and campus resources from the Cox School of Business, the Dedman School of Law, and the Meadows School of the Arts.

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Players Mentioned

Amirah Abdur-Rahim

Danielle Sanderlin

Jasmine Smith

Kayla White

Sydne Wiggins

Savannah Wilkinson

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