HOUSTON — The kick out pass was left wide open. Quentin Grimes had his best three-point look of the night, eyeing his second triple without a single SMU defender around.
And when the Houston guard found the bottom of the net, he turned to his own bench and let out a smile, obliging his teammates’ wishes to envelop him in a slew of chest bumps.
SMU was forced to call timeout on the next play. Houston, up 37-24, had broken a five-point game in a double-digit affair. The game would never become closer.