From The Newsroom: SMU Loses A Heartbreaker, North Texans Play SXSW

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published March 19, 2015 at 6:45 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Texas, Baylor, Texas Southern and SMU all lost first round NCAA tournament basketball game. SMU’s defeat was especially heartbreaking because this was the Mustangs’ first tournament game in 22 years.

And the music portion of the South by Southwest festival has just started. KXT’s Mark Abuzzahab helps sort through the noise from Austin.

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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