SMU Men's Basketball

**Game Notes**
Bethel and SMU split their MIAC series last season, with both teams winning on their home floor. The Cardinals got 20 points from Michael Rohr (Bloomingdale, Ill.) in a 71-68 win on Jan. 2, while the Royals edged SMU 82-79, despite a 26-point effort from the Cardinals' Brensley Haywood (Joliet, Ill.). … The Cardinals’ second-half struggles continued Saturday, as SMU failed to hold a one-point halftime lead, falling to Augsburg 83-73 at the SMU Gym. … Bethel, meanwhile, got a game-high 21 points from Tim Madson — including 15 in the second half — to lead the Royals to their second straight win, an 87-73 win over Macalester on Saturday.

Cardinal Notes

Brensley
Haywood
18 pts. in loss
to Auggies

The Cardinals' loss to Augsburg extended their losing streak to four — it's SMU's second four-game slide of the season. … Brensley Haywood (Joliet, Ill.) netted a team-high 18 points vs. Augsburg Saturday — it was the third straight time the SMU senior has led the team in scoring vs. the Auggies. … Eric Lear (Antioch, Ill.) and Michael Batterman (Fond du Lac, Wis.) each scored eight points vs. Carleton last Wednesday, marking just the second time in SMU’s 11 games that the Cardinals failed to have a double-figure scorer. … Wednesday’s loss at Carleton dropped SMU to 1-5 on the road this year. The Cardinals, who snapped a 15-game road losing streak with their 89-87 win at Hamline on Dec. 6, 2006, have won just twice on the road in their last 26 games. … The Cardinals have the luxury of playing htree of their next four games at home, where they are 2-4 this year and 9-8 over the past two seasons. … Dan Cormier (Blaine, Minn.) was held to five points vs. Carleton, snapping a streak of seven straight games with at least 10 points – including a career-high 25 points vs. Hamline and three games with 20 points or more. … Cormier currently leads the team in scoring, averaging 13.5 ppg, while Haywood is also averaging in double figures at 13.3 ppg. … Wednesday’s loss was the first time in the Cardinals’ last eight games that Cormier or Haywood had not led the team in scoring. … The Cardinals have led at halftime in three of their last four games — and lost all three (31-30 vs. St. Olaf; 39-36 vs. Gustavus; 41-40 vs. Augsburg).

**Royal Notes**
The Royals have scored 80 or more points eight times this season — including three straight 100-plus outbursts to open the season. … The Royals enter today’s game having won two straight. … Only once this season has Bethel one fewer than two games in a row — including a season-opening five-game winning streak and their current two-game run. … On the flip side, the Royals’ five losses have come in bunches — a two- and three-game losing streak. … Tim Madson leads a trio of Bethel players averaging in double figures, boasting an 18.8 ppg average. Charles Meadowcroft (15.4 ppg) and Dean Erickson (14.1 ppg) are the other two. … Madson has led the Royals in scoring in seven of their 13 games, including the last two. … Five of Bethel’s eight wins came against nonconference opponents, where the Royals were a perfect 5-0.