Box Score OCEANSIDE, Calif. – The No. 4 Cal State San Marcos men's basketball team trailed at the half for the first time this season, but shot 57 percent in the second stanza and turned a close game into a rout in its 90-67 win over The Master's College on Tuesday night at MiraCosta College.

Down 37-36 at the break, CSUSM opened the second half on a 13-2 run before the CSUSM backcourt sparked an 11-2 stretch that put the Cougars up 17 with 8:28 remaining.

TMC answered with a bucket, but it would be as close as the Mustangs would get. Malcolm Lemmons and Jason Johnson hit a pair of 3-pointers before Bobby Macias' acrobatic left-handed scoop and old-fashioned 3-point play iced the game with 3:05 remaining, 85-60.

CSUSM improves its winning streak to nine games and moves to 18-1 overall. The Cougars currently hold the most wins in NAIA Division I. CSUSM has also compiled more wins than any team in NCAA Division I, II or III.  

TMC drops to 11-3 overall. The Mustangs entered Tuesday contest riding their own eight-game winning streak.

The Mustangs made the Cougars look far from the group that had received their highest-ranking ever when the NAIA Men's Basketball Division I Coaches' Top 25 Poll was released earlier in the day.

TMC quieted CSUSM to eight points in the game's first seven minutes and took a six-point lead.

However, Zack Zaragoza put on a shooting clinic over the next three minutes of the game, hitting his first 3-pointer to pull the Cougars within three before sinking back-to-back 3-pointers to pull CSUSM even, 17-17, at the 10:27 mark.

Zaragoza finished the half 4-of-4 from 3-point range. He has hit 66.2% of his attempts from behind the arc over his last six games (28-of-45).

The teams traded the lead until consecutive fast-break layups from Jason Johnson and De'End Parker gave the Cougars a 36-60 edge with 2:21 left.

Bernard Ireland came back with a finger roll to pull TMC within four. CSUSM missed a pair of 3-pointers on its next possession and Derrick Fain took advantage in transition within a layup.

After the Cougars again came up empty, Macias attempted to draw a charge on Jason Logan. Despite Macias standing his ground, he was called for the foul. Logan hit 1-of-2 to pull within one.

Ireland ended the half with another layup with two seconds left to give the Mustangs a one-point lead.
 
Malcolm Lemmons scored the second half's first bucket with a 3-pointer from the left elbow before Quincy Lawson found Parker on a fast-break layup to make it 41-37.

Lemmons later gave CSUSM a 10-point lead at the 15:20 mark.

TMC pulled within six, but the CSUSM guards would put the game out of reach.

Tyree Murray came off the bench to contribute a fast-break layup and a 3-pointer on back-to-back possessions to put the Cougars up 11, 58-47.

Murray and Johnson hit their next two jumpers and Macias banked-in a contested layup to make the lead 66-49 with 8:28 remaining.

Lemmons led the Cougars with 17 points. Johnson tallied 16, Parker had 15 and Macias had 13. All of Macias' points were in the second half, when he was 3-of-3 from the floor and 7-of-7 from the stripe.

CSUSM faces at top-10 tilt at No. 5 Concordia (Calif.) (13-2) on Friday in Irvine (7:00 p.m., CU Arena). The Eagles have won eight straight games and have not lost since falling 88-82 at CSUSM on Nov. 26.