Saturday, February 24
Ames, Iowa
2 p.m.
West Virginia University
9-18,4-10Big 12
64
at
71
Iowa State
21-6,10-4Big 12
1
2
F
West Virginia
30
34
64
Iowa St.
40
31
71
Mountaineers Fall on Road at Sixth-Ranked Iowa State
February 24, 2024 04:42 PM | Men's Basketball
Tamin Lipsey's 14 points led a balanced Iowa State attack in the Cyclones' 71-64 victory over West Virginia Saturday afternoon in Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.
The sixth-ranked Cyclones, one game behind Houston in the Big 12 standings, got at least 6 points from eight different players and all but one player got into the scoring column.
Guard Curtis Jones was the only other Iowa State player to reach double digits with 12.
ISU led for more than half of a game that saw just three lead changes and three ties. West Virginia's last lead was 51-50 with 9:05 left in the game on Kobe Johnson's 3 before Tre King answered with a jumper and Robert Jones followed with two free throws.
Another Jones jumper in the paint after Jesse Edwards was called for traveling made it a five-point advantage.
Iowa State's biggest lead of the game was 13 with 3:27 to go off King's fastbreak layup.
West Virginia (9-18, 4-10) turned the ball over 23 times resulting in 29 Iowa State points and the Cyclones' bench outscored West Virginia's 27 to 10, which were the differences in the game.
The Mountaineers got 12 each from Johnson and Kerr Kriisa, Quinn Slazinski scored 11 and Edwards finished with 10 points and eight rebounds. West Virginia made 10-of-24 from behind the 3-point arc and used that outside shooting to jump out to an early 11-2 lead.
Today's win boosts Iowa State's record to 21-6 overall and 10-4 in Big 12 play. Iowa State remains undefeated at home this season with a 17-0 record and is now 7-5 against West Virginia in games played here. WVU came into today's game having won eight of its last nine against Iowa State and 12 of the last 16 regular season games in the series.
WVU's last road victory came here, 72-69, on Feb. 27 of last season.
West Virginia, now winless in all 11 games it has played away from the WVU Coliseum this year, will remain on the road to play at Kansas State on Monday night.
The Wildcats defeated West Virginia 81-69 in Morgantown back on Jan. 9.
K-State defeated BYU 84-74 earlier today to improve to 16-11 overall and 6-8 in conference play.
The sixth-ranked Cyclones, one game behind Houston in the Big 12 standings, got at least 6 points from eight different players and all but one player got into the scoring column.
Guard Curtis Jones was the only other Iowa State player to reach double digits with 12.
ISU led for more than half of a game that saw just three lead changes and three ties. West Virginia's last lead was 51-50 with 9:05 left in the game on Kobe Johnson's 3 before Tre King answered with a jumper and Robert Jones followed with two free throws.
Another Jones jumper in the paint after Jesse Edwards was called for traveling made it a five-point advantage.
Iowa State's biggest lead of the game was 13 with 3:27 to go off King's fastbreak layup.
West Virginia (9-18, 4-10) turned the ball over 23 times resulting in 29 Iowa State points and the Cyclones' bench outscored West Virginia's 27 to 10, which were the differences in the game.
The Mountaineers got 12 each from Johnson and Kerr Kriisa, Quinn Slazinski scored 11 and Edwards finished with 10 points and eight rebounds. West Virginia made 10-of-24 from behind the 3-point arc and used that outside shooting to jump out to an early 11-2 lead.
Today's win boosts Iowa State's record to 21-6 overall and 10-4 in Big 12 play. Iowa State remains undefeated at home this season with a 17-0 record and is now 7-5 against West Virginia in games played here. WVU came into today's game having won eight of its last nine against Iowa State and 12 of the last 16 regular season games in the series.
WVU's last road victory came here, 72-69, on Feb. 27 of last season.
West Virginia, now winless in all 11 games it has played away from the WVU Coliseum this year, will remain on the road to play at Kansas State on Monday night.
The Wildcats defeated West Virginia 81-69 in Morgantown back on Jan. 9.
K-State defeated BYU 84-74 earlier today to improve to 16-11 overall and 6-8 in conference play.
Team Stats
WVU
IowaSt
FG%
.478
.450
3FG%
.417
.318
FT%
.833
.667
RB
30
31
TO
23
13
STL
7
14
Game Leaders
Pts
12
FGM
5
3FGM
2
FTM
0
Pts
12
FGM
4
3FGM
4
FTM
0
Pts
11
FGM
3
3FGM
2
FTM
3
Pts
10
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
2
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