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Iowa State University Athletics
Friday, December 3
Ames, Iowa
TBA
Iowa State University
106
vs
64
Mississippi Valley State
Iowa State Jumps All Over Mississippi Valley State, 106-64
12.03.1999 | Men's Basketball
AMES, Iowa (AP) - Marcus Fizer scored 27 points and grabbed 10 rebounds and Jamaal Tinsley led a dazzling fast break as Iowa State raced past Mississippi Valley State 106-64 Friday night in the first round of the Cyclone Classic.
Iowa State (4-2) put the Delta Devils (0-5) away early with first-half runs of 13-0 and 14-2 and moved into Saturday night's championship game against Sam Houston State, an 80-77 winner over Montana State.
Michael Nurse added 16 points for the Cyclones, who showed no ill effects from a long trip back from Hawaii earlier in the week. Kantrail Horton and Tinsley each scored 11 points and Tinsley handed out seven assists.
Fizer, coming off a 26-point performance against No. 1-ranked Cincinnati, scored on jumpers, dunks, putbacks and turnaround shots while going 9-of-13 from the field. The 6-foot-8, 265-pounder even drove the length of the court for a layup after getting a rebound.
Tinsley made it easy for his teammates with a series of sharp passes on breaks that ended with layups or dunks. The Cyclones had three straight dunks during one surge midway through the second half and a soaring layup by Stevie Johnson gave Iowa State its biggest lead, 90-47 with 5:58 left.
Dewayne Jefferson led Mississippi Valley State with 15 points and Steven Reed scored 11. The Delta Devils shot 19 percent in the first half and 29.7 percent for the game.
Iowa State ran off 13 straight points to erase Mississippi Valley State's 2-0 lead and the Cyclones were up 21-11 when Fizer returned after a breather on the bench. A little more than four minutes later, it was 35-13.
Nurse started the run with a jump shot and then Fizer scored the next nine Iowa State points. He sank a free throw, got a basket inside, made two more free throws, scored after rebounding his own miss, banked in a soft shot off a lob from Tinsley and then fed Nurse for a layup that resulted in a three-point play.
A 3-pointer by Nurse made it 43-22 at halftime and the Cyclones ran at will in the second half. Horton and Nurse hit back-to-back 3-pointers to start an 11-0 run that made it 67-35 and Paul Shirley's follow-up dunk put Iowa State up 77-45 with 9:26 to play.
Johnson's layup capped another 11-0 run that included yet another Tinsley assist, this one to Brandon Hawkins, on yet another fast break.
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