GOSHEN, Ind. — Seniors Conner Funkhouser and Billy Geschke each marked their passage up the Goshen College men's basketball all-time scoring list in an 85-69 Crossroads League loss to NAIA Division II no. 8 Indiana Wesleyan University on Tuesday night in Gunden Gymnasium.

With his third and fourth points of the night, a step-back 12-foot jumper 7:06 into the game, Geschke raised his total to 1,348 points, tying 1999 graduate Mark Landes for the 10th-most in school history. Ninety-five seconds before the end of the half, he passed Landes with a steal and a fast-break layup.

Funkhouser's moment came in the game's waning seconds. After scoring seven points in the first half, the Avon, Indiana, native racked up 19 in the second, finishing 7-of-16 from the floor and 10-of-12 at the foul line for a total of 26 points.

His second-to-last points, a set of free throws with 82 seconds left, matched and then surpassed his season scoring high. But the best was still to come in the form of another steal and layup with 36.8 seconds to play, which made him the 27th Goshen player with 1,000 career points.

The Wildcats (17-6, 8-3) got on the board with the game's first five points before a Funkhouser foul shot broke the seal for Goshen (10-13, 3-8).

The game took the form of a defensive struggle for the first dozen minutes or so, an uncharacteristically slow start for two teams that average a new possession every 15 seconds and score 87 points per game apiece.

Patryck Ostrowski drained 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions and added a block between them as the Maple Leafs pulled into a 13-all tie with 11:21 left in the half. The Poland native scored GC's next points as well, a basket inside to close within 16-15 nearly three minutes later.

The defensive struggle ended there: Indiana Wesleyan made nine of its last 11 shots in the half to take a 40-25 lead into the locker room. Devin Heath-Granger added a pair of baskets for Goshen during the Wildcat run that spanned 8:32, but they would be Goshen's lone field goals until the 2:00 mark. Heath-Granger nearly added the longest field goal of his career at the halftime buzzer, but his 70-foot heave bounced out after hitting the rim twice.

IWU's Evan Maxwell led all scorers with 14 points in the first half; Kyle Mangas added 11 to go with seven rebounds.

The Wildcat lead hovered between 10 and 15 points for the next 10 minutes before four straight Geschke free throws and a Christian Grider put-back got the Maple Leafs within seven at 63-56 with 8:24 left. IWU responded to this Goshen run by blowing it out of the water, scoring 12 of the next 14 points to take a 75-58 edge three minutes later.

Maxwell and Funkhouser would end up sharing the game-high point total with 26; Geschke, who went 7-for-7 at the foul line after halftime, finished with 17 points to match Mangas. IWU's Jacob Johnson (15) joined Ostrowski (12) in double figures. Mangas' 13 rebounds led all players.

Heath-Granger finished with eight points, five assists and three steals in 38 minutes; the latter three statistics led all players and he paced the Maple Leafs with four rebounds. The five assists moved him within seven of the school career record held by 1981 graduate Kenny Edwards, while also earning him seventh place on the single-season assist list; Heath-Granger and Edwards each have two of the top six marks on that list.

The Wildcats hit on 53.6 percent of their shots for the game, going 30-for-56 overall and 27-for-43 (62.8 percent) inside the arc. The 3-point line did few favors for either team: Indiana Wesleyan was 3-for-13 from long range and Goshen 4-for-20.

Goshen forced 17 turnovers and converted them into 18 points; the Wildcats countered with a 22-17 edge in free throws as the teams combined for 43 fouls. No player fouled out, although four finished with four fouls.

"I'm very pleased with tonight's effort," said Goshen interim head coach Jon Tropf. "The final score doesn't show it, but we got our defensive edge back. I thought we played incredibly hard but shots just didn't fall, which happens sometimes."

Funkhouser's milestone came 25 years to the day after Shawn Nafziger scored his 1,000th career point in 1993 and on the 47th anniversary of Bob Zuercher turning the trick in 1971. Both Nafziger and Zuercher reached the four-figure plateau at home, albeit in the Union gymnasium, with Nafziger also doing so in a game against Indiana Wesleyan.

By following in the footsteps of Geschke, who scored his 1,000th point on Nov. 3, and Grider, who followed suit on Dec. 6, Funkhouser made the class of 2018 the third senior class in GC history with three members of the four-figure club. Landes, Nate Trueblood and Paul Gayler all graduated in 1999 with a total of 3,540 points, while Roger Springer, Moe Miller and Zuercher graduated in 1971 with 3,420 points between them.

No senior class in Goshen College history can claim four 1,000-point scorers; Heath-Granger needs 49 more points, an average of seven per game in the regular season, to change that.

The Maple Leafs go back on the road for their next two games, although they will only log 111 miles on the two shortest road trips of the year. The road trip starts with a visit to Grace, where Goshen will attempt to sweep the season series, on Saturday; tip-off is set for 3 p.m. in Winona Lake.