SAN MARCOS, Calif. – The No. 1 Cal State San Marcos men's basketball team ran its unbeaten record at home to 25-0 over the last two seasons with a 74-65 victory over No. 8 Concordia (Calif.) in the NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Game of the Week on Saturday night at MiraCosta College.

CSUSM trailed by as many as 12 in the second half, but used a key 11-0 run late in the game to improve to 22-2 overall on the season. Concordia, which came in as a winner in nine of its last 11, drops to 20-5 overall.

Dayton Boddie led all Cougars with 17 points on 6-of-7 shooting, seven of those points coming in CSUSM's critical end-of-game spurt. Julian Camper and Wade Collie each had 13 points, with Collie corralling nine boards in the process. Big-man Declan Daly pulled-down nine rebounds, as well.

"Tonight was a complete team win, we got contributions from every player who took the floor," said CSUSM head coach Jim Saia. "Concordia is one heck of a program, they're incredibly hard to beat, so to put up a performance like this against such a quality opponent says a lot about the team we have."

The Cougars, celebrating their Senior Night, ran out a new starting lineup that featured Blake Nash, Collie, Camper, Jacob Andersson and first-time starter Steele Sylte. The group scored the game's first 11 points, with Collie hitting a pair of three-pointers that ignited the capacity crowd.

However, CSUSM's jets would cool and the Eagles went on to hold the Cougars without a field goal for an 8:22 span. Camper's lay-in stopped the run to make it 20-20 with 5:11 remaining.

CUI answered with a 3-pointer at the other end and would push its lead to 28-21, and it appeared as if CUI would take a three-possession lead into the break.

That was until Saia drew up a play for Taran Brown with three seconds remaining in the stanza. Andersson threw a long pass to Brown at the free throw line – think Christian Laettner for Duke – before Brown took a power dribble, beat his man, and threw it down as time expired to make it 33-28.

CSUSM shouldered much of the blame for a lackluster half of basketball. The Cougars shot just 40-percent from the field and turned the ball over a whopping 12 times.

Momentum didn't seem to carry on to the second half, however, for the Cougars. CUI started the half on a high note and took its biggest advantage of the game, 41-29, at the 17:32 mark. Their lead hovered around 10 until Daly hit a hook shot in the lane and Akachi Okugo nailed a 3-pointer from the corner, cutting the deficit to five.

The teams traded baskets until Camper put up a finger-roll and Okugo hit a step-back jumper to pull CSUSM within one, 48-47.

Finally, CSUSM earned its first tie since the 5:11 mark of the first half when Camper made a layup and was fouled. He was true from the line, pulling CSUSM even with 5:19 remaining.

Collie's jumper from the right elbow made it 57-57, but the senior promptly fouled out when trying to pick-pocket Stephen Grosey above the 3-point arc the next time down the court.

Grosey made both of his free throws to put CUI up two at 4:24, but it would be the last time the Eagles would score for the next 3:32.

Boddie scored on a dribble drive before Nash stole the ball out of the hands of Ty Armstrong. Nash found Boddie on the break, and Boddie made a finger-roll at the tin while being fouled. His free throw was good and CSUSM took a three-point lead.

Nash led all players with nine assists on the night. He got into the act with a  right-handed layup before he found Brown for an alley-oop layup on the Cougars' next trip.

Boddie capped the 11-0 run with a contested layup that made it 68-59 with 1:02 remaining.

CUI could not pull within seven the rest of the way, and the Cougars made a series of free throws down the stretch to ice the game.

The Eagles shot just 34.4-percent from the field and were 0-of-11 from 3-point range in the second half.

CSUSM has all road games remaining on its regular-season schedule. The team heads to Espanola, N.M. for the Northern New Mexico Tournament, Feb. 12-14. The Cougars will play McMurry (Texas), NNMC and Johnson & Wales (Colo.) on consecutive nights.