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DALLAS (AP) -- Nic Moore, Sterling Brown and Markus Kennedy each scored 13 points and No. 17 SMU beat South Florida 72-58 on Saturday night in head coach Larry Brown's first home game of the season.

SMU improved to 13-0 -- the best start in school history -- and 2-0 in the American Athletic Conference. The Mustangs are one of three unbeaten Division I teams along with No. 3 Oklahoma and No. 24 South Carolina.

Brown missed the Mustangs' first seven games at Moody Coliseum while serving a nine-game NCAA suspension. Associate head coach Tim Jankovich, a Division I head coach for nine seasons before joining Brown at SMU in 2012, coached the Mustangs in Brown's absence.

Ben Moore added 12 points for SMU, which shot a season-low 41.8 percent. The Mustangs went into the game averaging 83.8 points.

Jahmal McMurray led South Florida (3-12, 0-2) with 17 points. Chris Perry and Bo Zeigler added 12 each.

South Florida cut it to 49-46 with 12:55 left in the second half following a driving dunk by Angel Nunez along the left baseline. But the Mustangs ran off the next 13 points to build a 62-46 lead with 4:14 to go and were never seriously threatened again.

The Bulls hit five of their first six field-goal attempts to take a 15-8 lead 6 1/2 minutes in. When the Bulls went cold, SMU appeared to take command by going ahead 29-22 with 4:07 left in the half. But South Florida hit its final five shots and only trailed 33-30 at halftime.

The Bulls played their fifth game wthout point guard Roddy Peters, a transfer from Maryland who broke a foot Dec. 13. Peters is expected back in late February.

SMU's longest winning streak is 20 games, accomplished by the 1955-56 team that reached the national semifinals.

The Mustangs are back in action Thursday, Jan. 7 when they welcome No. 22/23 Cincinnati to Moody Coliseum. Tipoff is slated for 6:00 p.m. CT and the game will be televised on ESPN. A limited amount of seats are available at smumustangs.com/tickets.