AMES, Iowa \u2013 No. 11 Iowa State (14-3, 2-3 Big 12) lost to West Virginia (14-3, 4-1 Big 12) by a final of 83-70 Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
ISU, without Addy Brown<\/a> and Arianna Jackson<\/a>, suffered its third-straight loss after costly turnovers leading to 30 Mountaineer points. WVU’s Kierra Wheeler led the game with 25 points.<\/p>\n Audi Crooks<\/a> put up 22 points and 10 rebounds and began the game making her first eight shots, missing just one. Crooks tallied game No. 83 in a row with 10-plus points, while bringing in her seventh double-double this season and 25th of career.<\/p>\n Sydney Harris<\/a> added 15 points while Reagan Wilson<\/a> ended with 11. The duo each sent in three 3-pointers, while ISU totaled 10 on the day.<\/p>\n How it Happened<\/p>\n Jada Williams<\/a> kicked off scoring with a shot from deep, while a Crooks three-point play followed before WVU got on the board. The Mountaineers kept things within one at the midway point of the first while Harris delivered a 3 right out of the media timeout, putting ISU up 14-10. Kenzie Hare<\/a> put in the next Cyclone triple with 2:56 on the clock to extend a lead of 19-14, but the Mountaineers fought back flipping the lead at 24-23 on a buzzer-beating triple.<\/p>\n Crooks provided two lead changes in the early goings of the second including one on a shot beyond the arc, sparking another made by Wilson to put the scoreboard at 31-26. With West Virginia back within one (31-30) at the 4:54 mark, Wilson stayed hot putting in her second 3. The game again was brought to a tie at 34s with just under three minutes remaining in the half, but Wilson again delivered a deep shot. It remained tight as West Virginia took a one-point edge of 40-39 into halftime.<\/p>\n The Mountaineers built their lead out to double digits (49-39) to cause an Iowa State timeout at 8:05 in the third, but the Cyclones clawed back on a run of six. Free throws aided in ISU staying within four (54-50) with under two minutes left, but WVU would go up nine after a last-second jumper to head to the fourth leading 59-50.<\/p>\n West Virginia hit a 9-0 run as its lead stretched to 73-56 with five minutes to play, and went on to win by a score of 83-70.<\/p>\n Up Next<\/p>\n Iowa State next travels to Colorado for a Wednesday, Jan. 14th matchup. The game tips at 8 p.m. and will be streamed on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMES, Iowa \u2013 No. 11 Iowa State (14-3, 2-3 Big 12) lost to West Virginia (14-3, 4-1 Big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-407051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}