Coming off a game where the shots weren't scoring and last-minute heroics were needed, the SMU men's basketball had no trouble scoring in Saturday's 117-74 win at Miami.

The Mustangs had 60 points at halftime, six more points than they had all game in the 54-52 win at Virginia a couple nights before. It was the most points scored in a half this season, and the most in a half since scoring 62 against Hampton in the 2015-16 nonconference slate.

"It was ironic because we had open shots on Wednesday, we just couldn't make a thing until the last 25 seconds," SMU head coach Andy Enfield said. "(Saturday), we had open shots early and made them and it really helped our confidence and we got going."

It wasn't just that SMU was making the open shots, it was making almost anything. The Mustangs didn't miss back-to-back shots until their 43rd and 44th attempts. In contrast, SMU made at least three shots in a row eight times, with a game-high of five in a row to end the first half and start the second half.

SMU's 45 made field goals are the most ever by an ACC team in a conference game, the 69.2% field goal percentage was the second-most ever by an ACC team in a conference game — the best by any Division I road team with at least 60 attempts this century — and it was just the fourth time a team scored at least 100 points, shot better than 60% from the field, better than 50% from the 3-point line and made at least 14 3-pointers in an ACC game.

The 117 points scored is the most in an ACC game since December of 2003, but that took Wake Forest triple-overtime to reach 119 points against North Carolina. The last time it happened in regulation, 1983 when NC State scored 130 against Wake Forest.

The points were also the sixth-most all time for an SMU team while breaking the record for most points in a road game (112, 1970-71), most points in a conference game (116, 1976-77) and the 43-point win was the largest margin of victory in a conference game in school history. It was SMU's fifth time scoring at least 100 points this season, one shy of the school record set in the 1992-93 campaign.

Even with all of that, it wasn't the offense Enfield was necessarily happiest about after the game.

"Our guys were very impressive, especially defensively in the first half, and then we were able to get out in transition," Enfield said. "We shared the ball, 28 assists as a whole, that's a lot in college basketball. Very, very proud of the guys. Our defense carried over from Wednesday night. Wednesday night we played as hard as we have all season defensively. Then, (Saturday), our guys were on point, they covered for each other and I was really proud of our defense in the first half."

The 28 assists came on 45 made baskets as seven players reached double digits offensively. Boopie Miller had his first double-double in an SMU uniform with a team-high 18 points to go with 10 assists, Matt Cross had 17 points, six rebounds and four assists, Samet Yiğitoğlu had 15 points and five rebounds, Chuck Harris had 14 points, Kario Oquendo had 13 while B.J. Edwards and Keon Ambrose-Hylton had 10 points each. 

Edwards was an efficient 4-for-4 from the field, including a pair of 3-pointers, added six assists and four rebounds. Meanwhile, it was another step in Ambrose-Hylton's progression in his new role. He scored his 10 points off 5-of-7 shooting, with two rebounds, in only 12 minutes.

"Keon's playing very good basketball right now," Enfield said. "His minutes have increased and that's because he deserves to play more. He's improved, his energy is infectious, his defense has been terrific and his offensive decision-making has improved. He penetrated probably two or three times (Saturday) and made good plays each time.

"... He played very well in the second half against North Carolina, then he played really well against Georgia Tech, Virginia and here. He's on a 3.5-game roll here."

As well as the Mustangs played, Enfield still sent a message to his team not to let up. 

Miami had an early 5-0 run in the second half and then went on a 9-0 run. Enfield made some lineup changes and the Hurricane only scored more than three unanswered points once the rest of the way.

"We did take a couple guys out early in the second half when they went on that little run, we didn't get back in transition twice, we turned it over," Enfield said. "We put them back in, but we said, 'We're not going to do this again, we're not going to let up and start playing 50, 60% because we have a big lead.' They got the message and came out in the second half and were very sharp and kept sharing the ball."