Mustangs Host VMI | Thursday 7pm

Thursday, November 5

Dallas, Texas

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SMU men's basketball vs. Southern - Nov. 2, 2026

Nov 4 | Men's Basketball

SMU (1-0) vs VMI (1-0)
David B. Miller Court at Moody Coliseum – Dallas, Texas
Thursday, November 5, 2026 – 7 p.m. CT
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Mustangs Win Season Opener Over Southern, 85-72
Toombs Named to the 2027 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award Watch List
SMU Men's Basketball Set For 25 Nationally Televised Games In 2026-27
Hart and Morris Selected Among 100 Most Impactful/Influential High Major Assistant Coaches
Swets Selected Among The Silver Waves Media Top Support Staff in College Basketball

SMU hosts VMI on Thursday in the second game of a six-game homestand at Moody Coliseum. The Mustangs won the season opener, 85-72, over Southern on Monday following a 94-88 exhibition win over Texas A&M on Oct. 26.

Freshman Jakub Szumert led the Mustangs with 24 points in the opener, the most by a freshman in a debut for SMU since at least 2000. Jermaine O'Neal Jr. added 15 points and Oziyah Sellers scored 13. Jaden Toombs, Rowan Brumbaugh and Billy White III each added nine points. Toombs also had a team-high eight rebounds, a career-high seven assists, a career-high tying three blocks and two steals. SMU shot 51.1% for the game and hit 32-40 free throws. The Mustangs had a 33-26 rebound advantage and totaled seven blocked shots.

The Mustangs are in their third season under Head Coach Andy Enfield with one of the nation's top transfer classes, ranked No. 22 nationally by On3. SMU is coming off its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2017 after earning two top-25 wins and appearing in both the AP Top 25 and USA Today Coaches Poll for the first time in nine seasons. The Mustangs tied for the ACC lead with three All-ACC selections in 2025-26 and finished among the nation's top 30 in scoring, assists, field-goal percentage and three-point percentage.

The returnees include Jaden Toombs, who is on the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award Watch List. Toombs played 27 games as a freshman, averaging 8.3 points (73rd ACC), 4.6 rebounds and 1.1 assists with 17 total blocks and 14 total steals while shooting 56.8% from the field. In the 2026 ACC Tournament and NCAA Tournament, he averaged 16.3 points, 10.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.0 blocks while hitting 62.9% on field goals. Jermaine O'Neal Jr. played in all 34 games (2 starts), averaging 4.5 points and 2.0 rebounds in 14.9 minutes while hitting 42.8% field goals and 37.1% on threes. Nigel Walls and Billy White III also return after being part of a 2025 signing class ranked as high as No. 4 nationally.

The transfer class includes Rowan Brumbaugh, who was NABC Second Team All-Gulf District, All-American Conference Second Team and Louisiana College Basketball Player of the Year at Tulane. He averaged 19.1 points (2nd American, 49th NCAA), 4.9 boards, 4.6 assists (9th American), and 1.6 steals (8th American) while hitting 45.2% FGs (5th American), 36.0% on 3FGs and 80.4% free throws (8th American). Oziyah Sellers started 36 of 37 games for St. John's as they won the BIG EAST regular season and tournament championships and reached the NCAA Sweet 16. He averaged 10.3 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.6 assists while shooting 35.1% shooting from long-range. Jaylin Stewart was at UConn where he helped the Huskies win a 2024 NCAA title and then return to the NCAA final in 2026 as he averaged 4.2 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.1 assists.. David Terrell Jr. was at North Texas where he averaged 13.5 points (19th American), 4.8 assists (2nd American, 73rd NCAA), 1.7 steals (5th American, 94th NCAA) and 3.7 rebounds with a 2.32 assist-to-turnover ratio (5th American). Gehrig Normand sat out last season at Santa Clara after playing 13 games for Michigan State in an NCAA Elite Eight run in 2024-25. Jacob Patrick joins the Mustangs after scoring 7.2 points at Utah, Nic Codie added 4.1 points and 3.1 rebounds in an NCAA Sweet 16 season with Texas. Johan Munch was at Oregon State where he averaged 7.9 points and 5.1 rebounds while shooting 52.7%.

The Mustangs added two freshmen. Jakub Szumert played for Orlen Zastal Zielona Gora in 2025-26 averaging 13.4 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.5 blocks, 1.3 assists and 1.0 steals as the team made the Polish Basketball League championship series. Cameron Lomax was a consensus four-star prospect from Frisco Heritage High School where he was selected as The Dallas Morning News Area Player of the Year and the UIL All-State Tournament Team. He averaged 25.9 points, 5.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 3.5 steals as Heritage went 34-2 en route to the 5A Division I state championship, the first state title in Frisco ISD history.

SMU had five players average double figures in scoring in 2025-26 with all of them in the top 50 of the ACC. Jaden Toombs also added 8.3 points per game (73rd ACC). SMU had at least four double-figure scorers in 28 of 34 games and at least five in double figures nine times. (SMU was one of 29 teams with five averaging 10+ points.) The Mustangs were near the top of the ACC in scoring offense (84.1, 2nd ACC, 21st NCAA), assists (16.9, 2nd ACC, 30th NCAA), field-goal percentage (49.0%, 3rd ACC, 22nd NCAA) and 3-point percentage (37.1%, 2nd ACC, 29th NCAA).

NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (1-0): SMU opens the regular season with six consecutive home games at Moody Coliseum beginning Nov. 2 against Southern. The non-conference home slate is highlighted by a Dec. 22 matchup against Oklahoma. The Mustangs will also face Utah State and LSU at the Acrisure Series Thanksgiving Event in Palm Desert, California, on Nov. 25-26; travel to DePaul on Dec. 5; meet Minnesota in the Dallas Duel at Comerica Center in Frisco on Dec. 12; and face UNLV in the Hall of Fame Series Phoenix on Dec. 19. The Mustangs went 11-2 in non-conference play last season.

ACC SCHEDULE: SMU's 18-game ACC schedule includes nine home contests at Moody Coliseum against Wake Forest (Jan. 5), Louisville (Jan. 9), Georgia Tech (Jan. 23), Cal (Feb. 3), Stanford (Feb. 6), Duke (Feb. 9), Syracuse (Feb. 20), Clemson (Feb. 23) and Pitt (March 6). The Mustangs travel to Virginia (Jan. 2), NC State (Jan. 12), Virginia Tech (Jan. 16), North Carolina (Jan. 26), Notre Dame (Jan. 30), Louisville (Feb. 13), Boston College (Feb. 16), Georgia Tech (Feb. 27) and Miami (March 2). The 2027 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament will take place March 9-13 at First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina.

LAST GAME (W, 85-72 vs Southern on Nov. 2): DALLAS (AP) -- Freshman Jakub Szumert scored 24 points to lead SMU over Southern 85-72 on Monday night in the season opener for both teams. Szumert, a 6-foot-9 forward from Poland, shot 5 of 6 from the floor and 13 of 14 from the free-throw line. Jermaine O'Neal Jr. added 15 points for SMU. Jaden Toombs scored nine points to go with a team-high eight rebounds, seven assists and three blocks. SMU took the lead for good late in the first half and led 40-38 at the break. The Mustangs opened the second with an 11-2 run, and Southern answered with a 9-1 spurt to pull to 52-49 but didn't get closer. R'Chaun King and Karez Demory each came off the bench to score 12 and 10 points, respectively, to lead Southern. They also each had three of the Jaguars' 17 steals. Coach Andy Enfield began his third season with SMU, coming off the Mustangs' first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2017.
Postgame Notes
- SMU is undefeated in last 15 season openers
- Jakub Szumert 24 points (5-6 FGs, 1-1 3FGs, 13-14 FTs), most by a freshman in a debut since at least 2000 & most by a freshman in any game since Shake Milton 24 at Tulsa 12/29/15

THE SERIES VS VMI (0-0): First meeting.

AWARD WATCH LIST: Sophomore Jaden Toombs is one of 20 candidates named to the 2027 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award Watch List, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced on Oct. 30.

CAPTAINS: The captains for the 2026-27 season are Rowan Brumbaugh and David Terrell Jr.

CENTURY MARK: SMU has scored at least 100 points nine times under Head Coach Andy Enfield (plus 96 2x, 97 2x, a 98 and a 99). The five 100-point games in 2024-25 were the most since the 1992-93 season (6). The 117-74 win at Miami 1/18/25 set program records for points in a road game (was 112 at Arkansas 2/13/1971) and points in a league game (was 116 vs TCU 1/5/1977). The 117 tied for sixth-highest in program history and was the most in an ACC game since Wake Forest scored 119 in 3OT at North Carolina in 2003 and the most in an ACC game in regulation since 1983 (130 by NC State at Wake Forest).
Most 100-Point Games By Coach:
12 - Doc Hayes 1947-67
11 - Sonny Allen 1975-80
10 - Bob Prewitt 1967-75
9 - Andy Enfield 2024-

DAZZLING DEBUT: Freshman Jakub Szumert scored 24 points (5-6 FG, 1-1 3FG, 13-14 FT) in his debut for the Mustangs in the 85-72 win over Southern on Nov. 2. That was the most by an SMU freshman since Shake Milton had 24 at Tulsa 12/29/2015 and the most by an SMU freshman in a debut since Ira Terrell had 28 points against Louisiana Tech 12/1/1972.

DOUBLE-DOUBLES: Four Mustangs recorded double-doubles in their careers: Jaden Toombs (3), Rowan Brumbaugh (2), Johan Munch (2), David Terrell Jr. (1). SMU has had six players record at least one double-double in each of the past two seasons.

DRAFTED: Jaron Pierre Jr. was selected by New Orleans with the 58th pick in the 2026 NBA Draft (second round). He was the first Mustang drafted since Shake Milton in 2018.

MUSTANGS MIC'D UP: The podcast-style show is co-hosted by Rich Phillips, the play-by-play voice of SMU Football and SMU Men's Basketball, and Breanna Sorensen, SMU MustangVision sideline reporter and producer. Men's Basketball Head Coach Andy Enfield and Women's Basketball Head Coach Adia Barnes will be featured on four shows during the season. Mustang student-athletes will also join the show throughout the season.
Jan. 13 – MBB Head Coach Andy Enfield, WBB Head Coach Adia Barnes – Ozona Grill & Bar
Jan. 20 – Director of Athletics Damon Evans – Mesero at Preston Hollow Village
Jan. 27 – MBB Head Coach Andy Enfield, WBB Coach Adia Barnes – Mesero at Preston Hollow Village
Feb. 17 – MBB Head Coach Andy Enfield, WBB Head Coach Adia Barnes – Over Under at The Village Dallas
Feb. 24 – MBB Head Coach Andy Enfield, WBB Head Coach Adia Barnes – Mesero – Preston Hollow Village

NCAA MARCH MADNESS EXPERIENCE: Eight Mustangs have been on rosters that made the NCAA Tournament.
Rowan Brumbaugh | 2023 NCAA Elite Eight (Texas - DNP)
Nic Codie | 2025 NCAA First Four (Texas - DNP) | 2026 NCAA Sweet 16 (Texas - 4GP)
Niccolo Kalischer-Stork | 2026 NCAA First Four (SMU - DNP)
Jermaine O'Neal Jr. | 2026 NCAA First Four (SMU - 1GP)
Jaylin Stewart | 2024 NCAA Champs (UConn - 6GP) | 2025 NCAA 2nd Round (UConn - 2GP) | 2026 NCAA Final (UConn - 4GP)
Jaden Toombs | 2026 NCAA First Four (SMU - 1GP)
Nigel Walls | 2026 NCAA First Four (SMU - DNP)
Billy White III | 2026 NCAA First Four (SMU - DNP)

RUN, RUN: SMU has 53 runs of at least 10-0 under Head Coach Andy Enfield with a 31-6 record in games with a run of at least 10-0 (23 in 2025-26, 13-3; 30 in 2024-25, 18-3). The largest run is 22-0 vs Tarleton State 11/4/24. The Mustangs had 3 runs of at least 10-0 four times (vs Alabama State 12/3/14, at Miami 1/18/25, vs UAPB 11/18/25, vs Central Arkansas 12/21/25).

MEET THE MUSTANGS:

Rowan Brumbaugh (G, 6-4, Gr.) | 2025-26 at Tulane: Started all 33 games… Led the team in scoring, rebounds, assists, and steals averaging 19.1 points (2nd American, 49th NCAA), 4.9 boards, 4.6 assists (9th American), and 1.6 steals (8th American) in 36.1 minutes … Hit 45.2% FGs (5th American), 36.0% on 3FGs and 80.4% free throws (8th American)... NABC Second Team All-Gulf District… All-American Conference Second Team... Louisiana College Basketball Player of the Year and First Team All-State... 4x American Weekly Honor Roll... American Player of the Week (Nov. 10)... American Preseason Player of the Year and Preseason All-Conference First Team.

Nic Codie (F, 6-8, Jr.) | 2025-26 at Texas: Played 24 games (4 starts) as team made NCAA Sweet 16... Averaged 4.1 points and 3.1 rebounds while hitting 49.4% FGs (40-81)... totaled 19 assists and 13 blocks

Niccolo Kalischer-Stork (G, 6-2,Jr.) | 2025-26: Saw action in 2 games

Cameron Lomax (G, 6-1, Fr.) | 2025-26: 4-star from Frisco Heritage HS where he played for coach Jibran Kelly (SMU 1999-2003)... The Dallas Morning News Area Player of the Year and UIL All-State Tournament Team... Averaged 25.9 points, 5.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 3.5 steals as he led Heritage to a 34-2 record and the 5A Division I state championship, the first state title in Frisco ISD...Scored 30 points and hit the game-winning buzzer-beater for a 65-63 win over Birdville in the state semifinals and followed that with 17 points, six rebounds and four assists in 60-47 championship win over Beaumont West Brook.... 247 Sports (No. 9 Texas | No. 23 Position | No. 138 National); ESPN (No. 10 Texas | No. 23 Position); On3 (No. 9 Texas | No. 25 Position | No. 145 National).... Teammates at Heritage HS with five-star Duke signee Bryson Howard.

Johan Munch (F, 6-11, Jr.) | 2025-26 at Oregon State: 31 games, making 23 starts ... Averaged 7.9 points and 5.1 rebounds per game ... Shot 52.7% FGs ... Blocked 23 shots.

Gehrig Normand (G, 6-6, Sr.) | 2025-26 at Santa Clara: Sat out due to injury | 2024-25 at Michigan State: Appeared in 13 games as MSU made an NCAA Elite Eight run | Prep 2023: 4-star recruit generally ranked among the top-100 players in the country.

Jermaine O'Neal Jr. (F, 6-5, So.) | 2025-26: Played in all 34 games (2 starts)... Averaged 4.5 points and 2.0 rebounds in 14.9 minutes... 42.8% FGs, 37.1% 3FGs (23-62) and 91.7% FTs (11-12).

Jacob Patrick (G, 6-6, Sr.) | 2025-26 at Utah: 10 games (1 start) before missing rest of the season (injury)... averaged 7.2 points and 1.4 rebounds while hitting 46.5% on threes (20-43)... Before College: Played four seasons with MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg out of the German BBL, averaging 5.0 points and 1.1 rebounds.

Oziyah Sellers (G, 6-5, Gr.) | 2025-26 at St. John's: All-MET Honorable Mention… BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Dec. 15)… Started 36 of 37 games... BIG EAST season and tournament champs, NCAA Sweet 16… Averaged 10.3 points, 2.7 rebounds, 1.6 assists… Led team in 3FGs (53) on 35.1% … had a 7-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio during BIG EAST play… 85.9% on free throws.

Jaylin Stewart (F, 6-7, Sr.) | 2025-26 at UConn: 32 games (12 starts), 16.2 minutes, 4.2 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.1 assists... NCAA Finalist... 2023-24 at UConn: Played in 37 games for the NCAA Champions.

Jakub Szumert (F, 6-9, Fr.) | 2025-26 for Orlen Zastal Zielona Gora: 13.4 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.5 blocks, 1.3 assists, 1.0 steals... made Polish Basketball League final series, falling in seven games... Selected All-Orlen League and named league MVP for December... Five-time team MVP of the month... Played for Poland in FIBA U20 EuroBasket 2025, he averaged 13.3 points, 7.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 2.5 blocks and 1.2 steals.

David Terrell Jr. (G, 6-4, Sr.) | 2025-26 at North Texas: Started all 33 games...Averaged 13.5 points (19th American), 4.8 assists (2nd American, 73rd NCAA), 1.7 steals (5th American, 94th NCAA) and 3.7 rebounds with a 2.32 assist-to-turnover ratio (5th American)...Led team in minutes 32.8 and assists with 160.

Jaden Toombs (F, 6-10, So.) | 2026-27: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award Watch List (1 of 20) | 2025-26 : Played 27 games, 5 starts (missed first 7 games - injury)... Averaged 8.3 points (73rd ACC), 4.6 rebounds, 1.1 assists with 17 total blocks, 14 total steals... 3 double-doubles (20th ACC)... 56.8% (96-169) on FGs (3rd-best at SMU for a freshman, 16th overall).

Nigel Walls (F, 6-10, So.) | 2025-26: Played in 9 games... Prep: 4-star prospect from St. Francis Episcopal in Houston... Ranked No. 62 by ESPN, No. 57 by On3 and No. 58 by 247 Sports... As a senior, averaged 13.3 points, 7.1 rebounds, 2.4 blocks, 2.2 assists and 1.4 steals.

Billy White III (F, 6-8, Fr.) | 2025-26: Redshirted | Prep: Consensus top-50 prospect ranked as high as No. 31 in the class of 2026 (reclassified to 2025)... On 3 (No. 38 nationally, No. 15 small forward, No. 3 Texas), 247 Sports (No. 31 nationally, No. 14 small forward, No. 4 Texas), ESPN (No. 45 nationally, No. 19 small forward, No. 3 Texas)... Junior in 2024-25, All-State Tournament Team and All-South Texas MVP, 18.8 points, 9.4 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.8 blocks, 1.0 steals...Veterans Memorial 39-1, run to the UIL 5A Division I semifinals.

HEAD COACH ANDY ENFIELD... is in his third season at SMU after being named SMU's Head Men's Basketball on April 1, 2024. In his second season at SMU, he led the program to its first NCAA Tournament since 2017. The Mustangs recorded a pair of top-25 wins for the first time in six seasons and were ranked in the AP Top 25 and USA Today Coaches Poll for the first time in nine seasons. SMU tied for the most All-ACC honorees with three and finished in the top-30 nationally in scoring, assists, field-goal percentage and three-point percentage. All-ACC and NABC All-District honoree Jaron Pierre Jr. was selected in the 2026 NBA Draft, the first selection for the program since 2018.

Enfield burst onto the coaching scene in 2013 when, in his second year as a head coach, he guided Florida Gulf Coast to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. Following that success, he was hired by the Southern California (USC), where he led the Trojans to five NCAA Tournaments, including a run to the Elite Eight in 2021. He came to SMU after 11 seasons at USC, where he compiled a 220-147 record. The Trojans set a school single-season win record and posted the most wins in program history over two-year, three-year, four-year, five-year, six-year, seven-year and eight-year periods. Enfield's 220 wins ranks third on USC's all-time wins list.

Over his final seven seasons at USC, the Trojans had eight players selected in the NBA Draft, tied for the fifth-most by any program in the country, with Evan Mobley going No. 3 overall in the 2021 NBA Draft and Onyeka Okongwu being selected No. 6 in the 2020 Draft. USC was one of three teams to have had at least one player selected in six of the last seven NBA Drafts. In total, 11 players during Enfield's time at USC have made the NBA.

DAVID B. MILLER COURT: On Dec. 5, 2018, SMU named the Moody Coliseum court after David B. Miller, alumnus and current chair of the Board of Trustees. He was a three-year starter on the basketball team and a member of the 1971-72 Southwest Conference Co-Championship team. Throughout his lifetime, Mr. Miller and his wife, Carolyn Lacy Miller, have committed over $100 million to SMU, including more than $50 million to the Cox School of Business, $20 million toward the expansion and renovation of Moody Coliseum and $10 million to the ACC Competitiveness Campaign as a member of the First Week Society. On Feb. 20, 2026 Carolyn and David Miller joined Liz and Bill Armstrong, Katy and Kyle Miller, and Mary and Rich Templeton to commit a $50 million gift to support SMU student-athletes and launch the Boulevard Society.