The USU Eastern men welcomed in the No.1 team in the country on Saturday night, the Salt Lake Community College Bruins. This was meeting number three this season, and the Eagles have yet to find the answer to stop the Bruins. Going all the way back to the first home game of the season, an eight point win by Salt Lake, the Bruins are undefeated so far  and played like it taking a 74-59 win.

Salt Lake is 26-0 with just four games left on their regular season schedule, and they played like they were protecting that streak on Saturday.

A three pointer by Payton Falslev would put the Eagles on the board and in the lead 3-2 at the 19:23 mark, unfortunately that was both the first and the last time USU Eastern would lead in the game.  Isaac Castagnetto would tie the game up at seven at 15:41 in the first, but it was all Salt Lake Community College after that, as they would take a 37-25 lead into the locker room at the half.

In the second half it was more of the same from the Bruins. The Eagles would try to cut the lead down, in fact getting it to single digits twice, but every time the Bruins would push it back up, always keeping USU Eastern at a distance. Salt Lake would push the lead to as high as 16 in the half before taking the win 74-59.

Falslev led the Eagles with 15 points, grabbing two rebounds and dishing out four assists. Kurt Wegscheider added 12 with six boards and three assists and BJ Davis had 11 with three rebounds, two assists and three steals in the loss.

The Eagles are 16-9 overall and sit at 8-6 in conference play, with three games left until the conference tournament which starts on Feb.24.

The next contest will be on the road in Twin Falls to take on the College of Southern Idaho, Wednesday. This will be the third time the two schools have met up this season, with USU Eastern taking the previous two.

The Eagles will be back at home on Saturday when they welcome the College of Southern Nevada to the BDAC. Game time is set for 3:00