{"id":106360,"date":"2025-12-23T13:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/106360\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:34:23","slug":"momcilovic-hits-7-3s-scores-27-points-in-no-4-iowa-states-91-60-win-over-long-beach-state-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/106360\/","title":{"rendered":"Momcilovic hits 7 3s, scores 27 points in No. 4 Iowa State\u2019s 91-60 win over Long Beach State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMES, Iowa (AP) &#8211; Milan Momcilovic made seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points and No. 4 Iowa State routed Long Beach State 91-60 on Sunday night to improve to 12-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Momcilovic, who entered the game leading the Big 12 in 3-point shooting accuracy at 52.6%, made his first six shots from beyond the arc for his best start since he was 7 of 7 against Fairleigh Dickinson on Nov. 3. He finished 7 of 9 on 3s and was 9 of 11 overall from the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iowa State held Long Beach State (3-10) to six points in the opening 10 minutes and led 45-9 with 5 1\/2 minutes left in the first half. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Joshua Jefferson added 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Cyclones, and Blake Buchanan had 13 points and 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iowa State has won 41 straight nonconference home games, the second-longest streak in program history. The Cyclones have won 12 straight to open the season for a third time, also doing it in 2013-14 and 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Freshman Gavin Sykes led Long Beach State with 19 points. Long Beach State lost its 15th straight road game and its 33rd consecutive game against a ranked opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Long Beach State: Hosts Lincoln University on Dec. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iowa State: Hosts Houston Christian on Dec. 29<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMES, Iowa (AP) &#8211; Milan Momcilovic made seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points and No. 4 Iowa State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[57429,2454,57430,1815,57428,57432,34270,56322,131,133,132,1817,57431,9591,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-106360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-ames","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-big-12","11":"tag-college","12":"tag-cyclones","13":"tag-hoops","14":"tag-iowa","15":"tag-iowa-state","16":"tag-long-beach","17":"tag-long-beach-headlines","18":"tag-long-beach-news","19":"tag-long-beach-state","20":"tag-momcilovic","21":"tag-ncaa","22":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}