Kansas City
Iowa State
No. 17 Cyclones Use First Half Run to Coast Past ?Roos, 110-51
11/25/2013 10:01:00 PM | Men's Basketball
(Ames, Iowa) – Kansas City cut the margin to six with 11:04 left in the opening half, but No. 17 Iowa State closed the period on a 33-4 run and never looked back on Monday night in a 110-51 rout in men's basketball action.
Iowa State (5-0) was red-hot from three to start the game, jumping out to a 14-4 lead on 4-of-6 shooting from beyond the arc. Injury-riddled Kansas City (1-4) settled down after that though, and got buckets from Martez Harrison and Fred Chatmon on consecutive possessions to cut the lead to 19-13 by the 11 minute mark. The foul trouble hit after that as Harrison picked up his third, playing just nine minutes in the period.
That would be the closest it would get though, as ISU scored the game's next 27 points over a span of seven minutes to seal it. The 'Roos could muster only four points in the final 11 minutes of the half, and trailed 52-17 at the break.
ISU shot 51.6 percent in the period, while holding Kansas City to just 22.2 percent, including a 1-of-14 clip from three-point range. The Cyclones also hit 7-of-16 from three in the half and out-rebounded UMKC by a 29-11 margin. DeAndre Kane led all scorers with 12 at the break for ISU.
“I told our guys that the beauty of this, if there is any, is that it is only November,” Head Coach Kareem Richardson said. “We will get better if stay together and learn from each game. Iowa State is a very difficult team to play against. They have five guys on the floor that can really shoot the basketball, and they hit shots tonight.”
The final half saw the 'Roos improve offensively, but they allowed the Cyclones to hit 51 percent again, while taking a 30-20 edge on the glass.
Harrison scored 10 of his team-high 14 points in the second half, while Nelson Kirksey tallied eight of his 11 in the final period. Kansas City finished with 29.5 percent shooting, while playing without its top three-point shooter in Frank Williams, who sat out due to injury.
The 59-point loss was the largest margin in school history, snapping the mark of 54 against Kansas in 2003. UMKC also dropped to 0-18 against ranked opponents all-time.
The 'Roos will look to re-group from the four-game road swing when it heads home on Saturday for a contest against UW-Milwaukee. The game, which will be televised on Time Warner Cable Sports Channel in Kansas City, starts at 7:05 p.m.
