DALLAS – Wichita State suffered its fourth consecutive loss following a 78-50 setback at SMU Tuesday night in Moody Coliseum.

Wichita State (7-10, 0-4) struggled on the offensive end, finishing the game shooting 31.1 percent overall, 18.8 percent (3-for-16) from three-point range and committing 19 turnovers.

Carla Bremaud scored 10 of her team-high 14 points in the first half, as the only Shocker to reach double-figures. Raven Prince grabbed nine rebounds and Shyia Smith added six points, six rebounds and three assists.

SMU finished the game at 47 percent, while splashing in 9-of-17 attempts from beyond the arc.

Kayla White registered a game-high 16 points to lead three Mustangs in double-figures. Ariana Whitfield and Amber Bacon added 11 points apiece.

Wichita State's first field goal didn't come until the 5:42 mark of the opening period courtesy of a Shyia Smith and Jaida Hampton 2-on-1 fast break, to make it 8-2 Mustangs. An Ashley Reid three followed a pair of Bremaud jumpers to finish the scoring in the first quarter for the Shockers, as SMU led 21-9 after 10 minutes.

WSU went just 4-of-14 from the field with eight turnovers in the first, while those mistakes led to eight SMU points.

SMU capped the first quarter on a 6-0 run and added onto it to start the second, extending its lead to 27-11 two minutes in. The Shockers would hold SMU scoreless over the next 3:15 and get scores from Reid and Prince to trim it to 12 with 4:45 remaining in the half.

An old-fashioned three-point play from Prince cut the deficit to single digits, but the Mustangs would come right back with a trey of their own.

Both teams would trade baskets over the next few minutes before an SMU three-point play with 16 seconds left pushed the Mustang lead to 37-25 at the half. Bremaud cashed in a pair of three-pointers late to give her a team-leading 10 points in the first half.

SMU out-shot the Shockers 47 percent to 29 percent and committed nine turnovers to WSU's 11. Kayla White led all scorers with 11 first half points.

The Mustangs wasted little time adding onto their lead out of the locker room. SMU tallied the first seven points of the quarter to go up 44-25 not even two minutes in. Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage knocked down a jumper to end the run and then neither team would score over the next four minutes.

Three-pointer No. 7 for SMU gave the Mustangs their largest lead to that point, 52-32, and would finish the quarter leading 53-34.

Much like the first three quarters, period No. 4 began the same way, with SMU scoring the first seven points.

SMU would lead by as many as 30 in the final 10 minutes to dominate the game from start to finish.

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