Iowa State Basketball: Top 10 Ranking Update

ALLEN FIELDHOUSE. AND SHANNON EHRHARDT WAS THERE. SHE JOINS US NOW LIVE. AND SHANNON IT FELT LIKE THIS WAS THE IOWA STATE TEAM THAT HAD WHAT IT TOOK TO WIN AT THIS VENUE. BUT NOTHING WAS WORKING FOR TJ KOHBERGER SQUAD. SCOTT, ALL I CAN SAY IS DON’T UNDERESTIMATE ALLEN FIELDHOUSE. THEY PLAYED AS A SIX MAN TODAY AND IT TOTALLY HELPED KANSAS FUELED THEM IN THE FIRST HALF. IOWA STATE GETTING DOWN IN A HOLE PRETTY EARLY. THE JAYHAWKS CAPITALIZED. YOU KNOW BILL SELF KANSAS HEAD COACH. HE DID SAY BEFORE THIS GAME THAT THEY NEEDED TO BE MORE PHYSICAL. HE SAID WE NEEDED TO PLAY TOUGHER AND STRONGER. AND AGAINST IOWA STATE, A TEAM WHO PRIDES HIMSELF ON PHYSICALITY, KANSAS WAS ABLE TO GET IT DONE AGAINST THE CYCLONES AS THE MORE PHYSICAL, THE BIGGER TEAM. THEY HAD WAY MORE POINTS IN THE PAINT THAN IOWA STATE IN THE FIRST HALF, 20, MIND YOU, THE CYCLONES HAD MULTIPLE SCORING DROUGHTS. THEY HAD MORE TURNOVERS THAN MADE SHOTS AT THE BREAK. LIPSEY, JEFFERSON AND MOMCILOVIC WERE A COMBINED FIVE FOR 34 FROM THE FIELD IN THE FIRST 20. KU COULDN’T MISS SHOOTING 50% WITH 20 POINTS AND SEVEN THREES. WE DID START TO SEE THAT TYPICAL SECOND HALF CYCLONES WERE ALL USED TO, BUT IOWA STATE COULD NOT GET ANY CONSISTENT STOPS, SO THEY NEVER REALLY GOT THEIR OFFENSE ROLLING. AND WHEN THEY DID, THEY COULDN’T FINISH POSSESSIONS. IOWA STATE HAD 17 BOARDS, JUST NINE SECOND CHANCE POINTS. KANSAS WENT INTO THIS GAME RANKED 346. IN DEFENSIVE TURNOVER PERCENTAGE, THEY SCORED 17 POINTS OFF 12 TURNOVERS. NOT GREAT FOR IOWA STATE. THEY DO PLAY CINCINNATI ON THE ROAD AT 1:00 ON SATURDAY, BUT THEIR HISTORIC RUN COMES TO AN END HERE AT ALLEN FIELDHOUSE. WE TALKED ABOUT IOWA STATE STARTING SLOW BEFORE THIS GAME AND THAT THEY NEEDED TO PUT TOGETHER A FULL 40, ESPECIALLY AT THIS POINT IN THE SEASON, AND THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO GET THAT DONE. THE PLAYERS AND COACHES TALKING RIGHT NOW TO THE MEDIA, WE WILL HAVE MORE ON THAT TOMORROW MORNING. I’M LIVE FROM ALLEN FIELDHOUSE, WHERE IOW