ORLANDO, Fla. (SMU) - In a game where both offenses struggled to make shots consistently, UCF was able to hit enough to pull away from SMU to win, 52-37, on Saturday morning.

SMU held the Knights under 40 percent shooting, but senior Ben Emelogu II was the only Mustang to score double-digits, finishing with 12 points.

The energy was there once again for the shorthanded Mustangs, but SMU shot just 26 percent from the floor and 13 percent from 3-point range. Junior Jahmal McMurray, who entered the game averaging 23 points in the four games that leading scorer Shake Milton has missed, never found a rhythm offensively and finished with just seven points. 

SMU once again played with just seven scholarship players, and those seven were not all completely healthy as injuries have greatly hampered the team this season.

Both teams started slow out of the game, with just six points total scored in the first five minutes after the early 10 a.m. tip. While UCF never got into a great rhythm offensively either, the Knights hit seven shots from 3-point range to get separation away from the Mustangs. 

Sophomore Jimmy Whitt logged his eighth game of the season with three or more steals while also grabbing a game-high 11 rebounds as a guard. 

The Mustangs are back on the road for a Wednesday, February 21 matchup against ECU at 6 p.m.