
Regardless of moving a 23-9 overall evidence and a No. 25 position by the related Press into assortment Sunday, the Mustangs will be in performance in the second-tier NIT contest. True, SMU had a squashy non-conference agenda, yet still supervised to go down playoffs to cellar-dwellers like South Florida and sanctuary. And, yes, they did lose to Houston in the AAC competition quarterfinals. But this is also a squad that flounces Connecticut in the standard period, while also overpower the likes of Cincinnati and Memphis. Plus point, one of their losses was next to a then-unranked Virginia, which just declared a No. 1 kernel.