SMU on target from long range in blowout win over Stanford

Kario Oquendo shot a perfect game en route to 16 points, SMU made 50 percent of its 3-pointers and the Mustangs wasted little time separating themselves from visiting Stanford in an 85-61 Atlantic Coast Conference shellacking on Saturday night.Samet Yigitoglu had 17 points and Matt Cross 16 for the Mustangs (17-5, 8-3), who scored 34 of the game’s first 45 points and coasted to their third-most lopsided victory of the ACC season.Maxime Raynaud managed an 18-point, 10-rebound double-double for the Cardinal (15-7, 7-4), who saw a four-game winning streak come to a screeching halt.Raynaud hit a pair of shots, including a 3-pointer, as the Cardinal played the hosts evenly into the game’s fifth minute before the Mustangs took control. Boopie Miller, Cross and Oquendo drilled consecutive 3-pointers in a 9-2 burst that opened the floodgates.SMU went on to lead 27-9 just past the midpoint of the first half following a 13-point run, then 34-11 after another seven-point flurry.The hosts were up 45-25 at the intermission and extended the margin to as many as 36 in the second half before settling for the 24-point margin of victory, the Mustangs’ most in an ACC game other than a 117-74 romp over Miami (Fla.) last month and a 103-77 pounding of Boston College in December.Oquendo made both of his 3-point shots (2-for-2) and all of his two-pointers (3-for-3) and free throws (4-for-4), the third time in his college career he has had a perfect shooting night. On the previous two occasions — while playing for Oregon — he didn’t attempt any threes.