Boopie Miller’s late hoop rescues SMU against Cal Baptist

Boopie Miller’s game-winning floater with two seconds left lifted SMU to a dramatic 79-77 win over Cal Baptist at the Acrisure Holiday Invitational in Palm Desert, Calif., on Tuesday.With 15.7 seconds left, Cal Baptist’s Dominique Daniels Jr. beat Matt Cross on a dribble and drove for a game-tying layup. But coming out of a timeout, and against the Lancers’ zone, Miller answered promptly, driving for the go-ahead shot.Miller scored 16 points for SMU (5-2), shooting 6-for-14 from the floor. B.J. Edwards tallied a team-high 17 points for the Mustangs, who earned their first single-digit victory of the season. SMU shot 52.7 percent from the field.Kendal Coleman, who had 15 points as part of a 20-4 run that tied the score midway through the second half, led Cal Baptist (4-3) with a career-high 32 points. He shot 12-for-16 from the field, 6-for-8 from 3-point range, and added six rebounds.The Lancers pushed SMU to the brink over the final 20 minutes, overcoming a 13-point halftime deficit to tie the score at 54-54 with 11:13 to play. Coleman’s stellar shooting kept Cal Baptist stride-for-stride from that point on, as the game was tied six more times down the stretch.With SMU up 75-73 and just over a minute left, Edwards passed up a 3-point shot from the right corner, and instead dribbled forward for a mid-range shot, converting on a jumper that put the Mustangs up by four. But Cal Baptist answered with a 4-0 spurt, capped by Daniels’ tying layup, ahead of Miller’s late-game heroics.

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