FORT COLLINS>> Jalen Lake hit a 3-pointer with three seconds left to break a 72-72 tie and give Colorado State a 75-72 victory over Boise State on Wednesday night at Moby Arena.

Colorado State won for the eighth time in 10 home appearances this season, but it wasn’t without some late drama. The Rams squandered a 17-point second-half lead, and the game came down to a CSU possession and the game tied with 34 seconds to go.

CSU methodically let the clock run down, and Nique Clifford attacked the rim with the shot clock at about five. His layup didn’t fall, but Jaylen Crocker-Johnson got the rebound and kicked the ball out to Lake, who knocked down the 3-pointer for the win after Boise State’s buzzer-beater attempt to tie the game again was no good.

CSU improved to 12-7 overall and 6-2 in the Mountain West Conference. Boise State dropped to 13-7 and 5-4.

“High-level college basketball game tonight,” CSU head coach Niko Medved said. “I thought it was a great game, a game of runs. You knew Boise would make a run. We were teetering there at the end, but our guys showed a lot of poise and had the will to just make one more play than they did.”

CSU took a 38-29 lead into the second half and spent the early part of the final period extending the lead it had built at the end of the first half.

A layup by Kyle Jorgensen gave the Rams a 17-point lead at 56-39 with 12:29 left in the game. It was their largest lead of the contest, but the Broncos had one last run in them. Led by Tyson Degenhart, Boise State turned almost a 20-point deficit into a lead in the closing minutes.

With 3:37 remaining, the Broncos cut the CSU lead to three points at 65-62 on a layup by Degenhart. A 3-pointer by Kyan Evans stopped the Boise State run and gave the Rams a 68-62 lead, but the Broncos didn’t go away, making it a three-point game again at 70-67 on a three-point play by Degenhart.

A pair of CSU turnovers led to two more baskets for the Broncos, and Boise took its first lead since the first half on a 3-pointer by Degenhart with 1:09 left, 72-70. A layup by Clifford tied the game at 72 with 50 seconds left.

Degenhart, who had a game-high 27 points, missed a 3-pointer and the Rams were able to get the rebound and set up the final play that eventually resulted in Lake making the game-winner.