Six Bulldogs scored in double figures as Butler used a strong performance down the stretch to post an 81-70 win over SMU Friday night at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
 
Jahmyl Telfort led the Bulldogs with 19 points, adding six rebounds and five assists.
 
Both Butler and SMU are now 3-1 on the young season.
 
KEY MOMENT:

• After seven straight points gave SMU its first lead of the second half at 50-48 with 13:11 remaining in the game, Butler responded with a 16-2 run to make it 64-52 in favor of the home team. Telfort and Kolby King scored 13 of those 16 Butler points.

 
NOTEWORTHY:

• Seventeen of Telfort's 19 points came in the second half.
• King scored 14 points on 5-of-6 shooting, including making all four of his attempts from behind the arc. It marked a Butler-high for King. Pierre Brooks II also scored 14.
• Andre Screen narrowly missed a double-double with 10 points and a game-high nine rebounds.
• Finley Bizjack and Patrick McCaffery each scored 12; Bizjack pulled down six rebounds.
• SMU entered the game averaging 93.0 points over their first three wins of the season.
• Chuck Harris, who played for Butler from 2020-23, returned to Hinkle Fieldhouse and led SMU with 21 points. He went 4-for-5 from three-point range.
• Butler went 19-for-24 from the free throw line (79 percent).
• The Bulldogs made 12 three-pointers (on 26 attempts) compared to only five for SMU.
• Butler shot 46 percent from behind the arc, but only 41 percent overall from the field. That narrowly out-paced SMU's 40-percent mark.
• Butler last put six players in double figures in the Nov. 6, 2023 game against Eastern Michigan.
• The game was the front end of a home-and-home series that will have the Bulldogs and SMU meet in Dallas next season. Prior to Friday night, the teams had only met once: a 42-37 Butler win during the 1939-40 season.

 
UP NEXT: The Bulldogs have a week off from competition before hosting Merrimack Friday (Nov. 22). Tickets are still available for the 7 p.m. tip, which will also air on FS2.