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FRISCO, TEXAS (AP) - Devonaire Doutrive scored on a putback with 10.1 seconds to play and Boise State defeated SMU 85-84 in a first-round game of NIT on Thursday night.

Mladen Armus, who made the play to keep the ball alive for Doutrive, also made the defensive play on the other end that forced a turnover.

Boise State will play the winner of Saturday's Memphis-Dayton game in the quarterfinals next Thursday.

Armus scored 18 points on 5-of-8 shooting and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Broncos (19-8), who hit a season-high 14 3-pointers with 21 assists, their second best. Emmanuel Akot hit a career-high five 3-pointers and scored 17 points to go with a career-high nine assists. Marcus Shaver Jr. and Derrick Alston both added 13 points and Doutrive had 10 with eight assists.

Kendric Davis scored 23 points with 12 assists and seven rebounds for SMU (11-6). Tyson Jolly added 17 points and Emmanuel Bandoumel 16. All three went 3 of 4 from 3-point range.

Boise State, in its seventh NIT, was 14 of 29 behind the arc and shot 50.8% overall while SMU, in its fourth NIT, made 10 of 17 3-pointer and shot 55.4%.

Boise State led 48-42 after a wild first half.

The Broncos scored the first 14 points of the game and led 30-9 after a Doutrive 3-pointer. At that point, the 11:04 mark, BSU was 11 of 15 and SMU, whose conference tournament loss six days earlier was its first game since Feb. 8, was 3 of 11. However, the Mustangs went on 20-5 run, at one point making six-straight shots, and after back-to-back 3s by Davis and Jolly, only trailed 42-40.

The tournament, limited to 16 teams instead of 32 this season, is taking place in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area at the University of North Texas Coliseum in Denton and at the Comerica Center in Frisco.

SMU Postgame Notes – March 18, 2021
NIT – First Round
No. 2 Boise State 85 No. 3 SMU 84
Boise State (19-8), SMU (11-6)
Comerica Center – Frisco, Texas
 
NOTES
 
Starters: #0 Tyson Jolly, #3 Kendric Davis, #5 Emmanuel Bandoumel, #22 Isiah Jasey, #25 Ethan Chargois

• First start of the season for #0 Tyson Jolly
• #3 Kendric Davis, #5 Emmanuel Bandoumel and #25 Ethan Chargois have started every game
• Out: #1 Feron Hunt, #2 Darius McNeill (injury),

 
SMU rallied from a 21-point deficit (down 30-9)

• From down 30-9, first half run of 20-5 from 10:40 to 3:53 (10-0 from 9:23 to 6:35)
• First tie 65-65 at 10:50 2^nd half (Emanuel Bandoumel 3-pointer), 2^nd tie 74-74 at 6:11 (William Douglas 3-pointer), 3^rd tie 77-77 at 5:29 (Kendric Davis layup), 4^th tie 79-79 at 4:41 (BSU layup)
• First lead 75-74 at 5:48 2^nd half (Emmanuel Bandoumel FT), 2^nd lead 79-77 at 4:54 (Kendric Davis 2 FTs), 3^rd 84-83 at 0:40 (Yor Anei layup)

 
SMU shot a season-high 55.4%
 
ADDITIONAL INDIVIDUAL NOTES
 
Emmanuel Bandoumel (#5, Jr., G)

• 16 points (career high 19 at Dayton 12/5/20)
  • 10^th game in double figures this season

 
Kendric Davis (#3, Jr., G) - All-AAC First Team, NABC All-District First Team, USBWA All-District, Lute Olson National Player of the Year Mid-Season Watch List

• 23 points (entered game 1^st in AAC at 18.8)
  • 10^th 20-point game of the season
  • Double-figure scoring in 15 of 17 games this season
• 5^th points-assists double-double of the season (8^th of his career)
• 12 assists (entered game 1^st in AAC and 5^th NCAA at 7.4)
  • 5 or more assists in 13 of 17 games this season
• 7 rebounds (season high is 8)

 
Tyson Jolly (#0, Sr., G) – Preseason All-AAC Second Team

• Season-high 17 points (was 15)
  • 17 in first half (6-78 FG, 3-3 3FG, 2-2 FT)

 
SMU CAREER RECORDS
 
SMU Career Rebounds
Rank       Rebounds
27           562        Mike Wilson, 1990-93
28           554        Gene Phillips, 1968-71
29           550        Wilbur Marsh, 1957-60
30           539        Bob Begert, 1964-67
31           535        Joe Swedlund, 1974-78
32           533        Feron Hunt, 2018-
34           531        Ethan Chargois, 2017-
 
SMU Career Points
Rank       Points
32           1110      Sterling Brown, 2013-17
33           1096      Jan Loudermilk, 1959-62
34           1093      Eric Castro, 2001-05
35           1077      Steve Strange, 1958-61
36           1046      John Colborne, 1985-90
37           1041      Gerald Lewis, 1989-93
38           1027      Bobby Mills, 1954-57
39           1026      Kevin Lewis, 1982-86
40           1024      Ethan Chargois, 2017-
 
SMU Career Assists
Rank       Assists
13           337        Shake Milton, 2015-18
14           334        Scott Johnson, 1983-87
15           323        Stephen Woods, 1996-00
16           303        Kendric Davis, 2019-
17           294        Sterling Brown, 2013-17