Completed Event: Men's Basketball at #23 Creighton (Exhibition) on October 17, 2025 , Loss , 58, to, 71
Final
Men's Basketball
58
#23 Creighton (Exhibition)
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Iowa State University Athletics
Tuesday, February 3
Manhattan, Kan.
7:00 PM
Iowa State
12-10 (1-6)
50
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65
Kansas State
15-7 (4-4)
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Iowa State
22
28
50
Kansas State
27
38
65
Cyclones Fall To Kansas State, 65-50
02.03.2009 | Men's Basketball
MANHATTAN, Kan. ? Kansas State defeated Iowa State, 65-50, Tuesday night in Manhattan, Kan., as the Cyclones fall to 12-10 overall and 1-6 in league play. ISU struggled from the floor in the loss, shooting a season-low 32.7 percent from the field.
"Our guys didn't quit, that is the encouraging thing," ISU head coach Greg McDermott said. "We made two runs in the second half to get back into the game when their crowd was going wild. Our defense was good enough to win for the most part, but have to find a way to score points."
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ISU started out hot, making 6-of-its-first-10 shots from the floor to take a 15-8 lead with 11:46 left in the opening period. Craig Brackins was responsible for four points and Lucca Staiger tallied five points to get the Cyclones going. Staiger hit a trey to improve his streak of consecutive games with a 3-pointer to 16, tying for the third-longest streak in school history.
KSU kept chipping away at the lead, tying the game at 22-22 with 3:52 remaining before intermission. Denis Clemente accounted for eight Wildcat points in a 14-6 KSU run. The Wildcats tacked on the final five points of the half to go into the break with a 27-22 advantage. The Cyclones failed to score a field goal in the final 7:32 of the half to help KSU take control.
The Wildcats increased their lead to nine points (35-26) in the first part of the second half, but ISU answered with a 7-0 run to make it a 35-33 game with 13:00 minutes left in the contest. Brackins scored a pair of buckets in the paint and Jamie Vanderbeken buried a trey in the run.
Vanderbeken tied the game at 36-36 with another long-range bomb, but Dominique Sutton scored on a put-back to push KSU back out in front (38-36) on its next possession. The Wildcats eventually went back up by nine points after a Jamar Samuels lay-in, but ISU answered with five-straight points behind a trey from Bryan Petersen and a lay-up from Sean Haluska to cut the deficit to four points (47-43) with just under eight minutes left in the game.
A pair of Vanderbeken foul shots cut the lead to three points, but Jacob Pullen hit a big trey and Sutton added another hoop to push the Wildcats back up by eight points (53-45) with 5:48 left. An 8-3 run put KSU up 61-48 with 1:50 remaining in the game.
Brackins ended the game with 14 points and nine rebounds and Vanderbeken tied a career high with 14 points to pace the Cyclones. The Wildcats outboarded ISU, 49-32.
The Cyclones are back home this weekend, playing host to Missouri in a 5 p.m. tip on Saturday (Feb. 7).
Team Stats
IS
KS
FG%
.327
.390
3FG%
.238
.211
FT%
.643
.600
RB
32
49
TO
11
10
STL
1
5
Game Leaders
Pts
14
FGM
6
3FGM
0
FTM
2
Pts
14
FGM
4
3FGM
3
FTM
3
Pts
8
FGM
2
3FGM
0
FTM
4
Pts
5
FGM
2
3FGM
1
FTM
0
Players Mentioned
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