AMES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa State's game with Kansas went just as expected: slow, physical and downright ugly at times. Only this time, Iowa State won.
|  | | Megan Taylor drives toward two of her 11 points for Iowa State. |
Angie Welle scored 17 points and Erica Haugen hit three key 3-pointers at the start of the second half as No. 7 Iowa State overcame a lackluster game offensively to beat Kansas 67-48 Wednesday night.
Iowa State (12-1, 3-0 Big 12) lost to the Jayhawks twice in similar games last season. The loss in Ames ended the Cyclones' 26-game homecourt winning streak, and they remembered that one.
"We kind of walked on the court last year and thought we were going to win just because we were at home," Welle said. "I think it really taught us a lesson. You can't have that mentality. We have the score posted up in the locker room from last year. We were definitely aware of it."
Kansas (6-7, 0-2) again gave Iowa State trouble with its
trapping, man-to-man defense and 15 minutes into the game, the
Cyclones had only 19 points. But the Jayhawks could not get
anything going offensively and lost for the fourth straight time,
their longest losing streak since dropping four in a row in the
1992-93 season.
Only Jaclyn Johnson's 21 points kept Kansas from being blown out.
"It's kind of what we talked about, it's what we tried to practice against -- physical defense, slow pace on offense," Iowa State coach Bill Fennelly said. "Our team has been known as an offensive team, but tonight it was our defense that won us the game.
"We had 13 points with 7½ minutes to go in the half, but they
only had 11. You've got to guard until you score, so I thought that
was good."
Haugen finished with 13 points and Lindsey Wilson had 12 for
Iowa State, which had been averaging 84 points a game. Megan Taylor
added 11 points and Tracy Gahan 10.
Kansas shot just 38.5 percent and was 1-for-13 from 3-point
range. Until Jennifer Jackson hit a jumper with 16:48 left in the
game, Johnson had been the only Jayhawks player with more than one
basket.
"That was our plan, to get 3-pointers and make them come out
and then dump it inside," Johnson said. "But we never got to the
first part because we didn't make any 3-pointers."
Brooke Reves, Kansas' No. 2 scorer with a 15.1 average, got into
early foul trouble and scored only eight points. Kansas was called
for 25 fouls to 10 for Iowa State, leading to a 19-7 free throw
advantage for the Cyclones.
"It's very difficult to establish any kind of momentum with the
number of fouls that were called," Kansas coach Marian Washington
said. "I thought that was the difference in the games, the
fouls."
Iowa State led 29-20 at halftime and the Cyclones' offensive
struggles continued early in the second half -- except for Haugen.
She answered the first three Kansas baskets of the half with
3-pointers to keep the Cyclones in control.
"That was huge for us because we weren't really getting very
good looks at the basket," Gahan said. "That's a big momentum
boost for us and for our fans, too. It got them back in the game."
Kansas cut the lead to 44-37 with a 6-0 run that Johnson
finished with a baseline jumper and a basket inside. But Iowa State
came back with an 11-2 run that started with Erica Junod's touch
pass to a surprised Welle for a layup, the ball almost hitting the
Iowa State center in the face.
Taylor had two 3-pointers in the run, which made it 55-39 with
5:06 left. The lead was never below 12 after that.
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