Box Score Izaiah Brockington's steal and short jumper with 22 seconds left helped lift Iowa State to an 84-81 come-from-behind victory over West Virginia Wednesday night at Hilton Coliseum on Ames, Iowa.
 
Brockington, who scored a career-high 35 points, stole Taz Sherman's inbound pass underneath the Cyclone basket and scored to give the Cyclones an 82-81 lead. Sherman was inbounding the ball underneath the basket because he called timeout when teammate Sean McNeil was trapped in the corner near Iowa State's bench.
 
Huggins said his players didn't execute what he wanted done on the team's two offensive possessions leading to Brockington's steal and basket.
 
"They weren't supposed to run to the corner the first time and get trapped," Huggins explained. "The second time we had them all set up with a screen to throw the ball over top of them, catch it and go down and shoot a layup if you are ahead of the guy. If you're not, hang on to the ball and dribble out the clock.
 
"But we passed the ball around like a hot potato and they never did anything I asked them to do," Huggins added.
 
In addition to giving up the go-ahead score, WVU no longer had any timeouts to draw up a winning play, so Malik Curry took the ball to the basket where his shot rolled off the rim. Gabe Osabuohien's follow up try was unsuccessful and Gabe Kalscheur was fouled by Jalen Bridges after grabbing the rebound.
 
Following Kalscheur's two free throws, Sherman missed a long 3 with four seconds left attempting to tie the game.
 
Brockington, who scored only 11 points in Iowa State's 79-63 loss to West Virginia in Morgantown earlier this month, was unstoppable tonight. He had 25 in the second half alone on 10 of 15 shooting, including 3 of 5 from 3.

"If you notice, they went after the same guy every time when we were playing man, and then when we went matchup (zone) they went at him every time in matchup," Huggins said. "As I continue to tell our guys, (the other team) watches film too."
 
The Cyclones used some torrid  second half shooting to overcome a 12-point deficit. Two 3s within a span of 58 seconds halved West Virginia's lead, and Brockington's layup eventually tied the game at 58 with less than nine minutes to go.
 
A Dimon Carrigan dunk gave West Virginia a 77-73 lead with 2:40 left, and a short Curry jumper had WVU up 81-79 with 1:27 remaining.
 
Iowa State made 17 of its 27 second-half field goal attempts, including 7 of 12 from behind the arc with Kalscheur and Brockington accounting for six of the seven.
 
Overall, Iowa State shot 55.1% for the game and scored on 58.5% of its offensive possessions.
 
Tonight's loss spoils one of West Virginia's best offensive performances of the season.  WVU outscored Iowa State in the paint 26-24, had a 44-8 advantage in bench scoring, shot 24 of 27 from the free throw line and eight different players got into the scoring column, including Osabuohien with a career-high 19.
 
The senior forward even made his first 3 of the season near the end of the first half (second of his career) to give the Mountaineers a 10-point halftime lead. Curry came off the bench to contribute 19 points playing the minutes normally allocated to senior guard Kedrian Johnson, who injured his hip during today's shootaround and was unable to go tonight.
 
Freshman Kobe Johnson got the starting nod in his place.
 
Sherman contributed 15 and McNeil added 11. West Virginia had a 34 to 23 margin on the glass in one of the rare instances this season when the Mountaineers out-rebounded their opposition.

Tonight's loss extends the current losing streak to five and drops the Mountaineers' record to 14-14, 3-12.
 
"It's totally ridiculous that 22- 23-year-old guys can't do the right thing," an upset Huggins said afterward on his postgame radio show. "Frustrating, man, frustrating."
 
Iowa State improves to 19-9, 6-9.
 
West Virginia returns to the Coliseum for a Saturday afternoon game against Texas. The Longhorns rallied to defeat TCU earlier tonight in Austin.