GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – On a night filled with milestones and a raucous crowd, the CMU men's basketball team delivered, leading wire-to-wire and putting away a resilient UCCS team, 83-63.

Blaise Threatt continued his offensive heater, leading the team with 18 points, including the 1,000^th of his career. When the buzzer sounded to seal the Maverick win, it became the 300^th of head coach Mike DeGeorge's career across his four head coaching stops.

Threatt added a team-high five assists and grabbed five rebounds. Isaac Jessup played a flawless two-way game, scoring 14 points on 6 of 8 shooting and forcing four steals on the defensive end while having no turnovers on the offensive end. Christopher Speller (12 points) and Owen Koonce (11) also scored in double figures, with Speller going 4-for-4 from the field.

At the start of the game, Threatt was four points shy of 1,000, and the team was determined to let him get it as quickly as possible. Threatt got the ball and drove into the paint for layups on each of CMU's first two possessions, reaching 1,000 exactly after scoring 1:13 into the contest. Coach DeGeorge called a 30-second timeout to allow the packed Brownson Arena and Threatt's Maverick teammates to give him an ovation. Threatt is the 19^th player in CMU program history to eclipse the barrier.

Jessup scored the next seven Maverick points as CMU went up 11-5, although UCCS cut it to 12-10 at the under-12 media timeout. That would be a theme for much of the game – the Mavericks would build a seemingly large lead, UCCS would rally to the verge of closing the gap and then the Mavericks would go on a run again.

Colorado Mesa shot 56.7 percent from the field, 62.5 percent from three and 71 percent from the line. The Mavericks outscored UCCS in the paint (44-20), on the fast break (25-6), and off turnovers (25-7). The Mavs had a 34-25 rebounding advantage and had 20 assists against 19 turnovers. UCCS shot 37.5 percent from the field and had 20 turnovers compared to just eight assists.

A deafening crowd of 1,589 – most dressed in white to celebrate the Blizzard in Brownson presented by Coca-Cola – provided an energetic atmosphere from start to finish. There were just as many great moments during the stoppages in play – including four CMU student-athletes being presented with a $10,000 scholarship check from Coca-Cola at halftime of the men's game and a CMU student successfully hitting a half-court shot to win a Coca-Cola branded cooler at halftime of the women's game.

The Mavericks are 18-4 overall and 13-3 in the RMAC. They will cross the mountains for the final time this season next weekend, facing No. 10 Colorado School of Mines on Friday and MSU Denver on Saturday. The Mavs will be on a revenge tour after losing to both teams at home to open conference play. After next weekend's road trip, the Mavericks close the year with three home games and a short road trip to Western Colorado.