Iowa State Defeated by No. 8 Texas

AUSTIN, Texas - Six players scored in double figures as No. 8 Texas broke out of a three-game shooting slump Saturday night with a 70-50 win over Iowa State in the Longhorns' Big 12 opener.

Brian Boddicker and T.J. Ford each scored 11 points for Texas (10-2). Ford, a 5-foot-11 point guard, also grabbed a game-high nine rebounds.

Jason Klotz, Sydmill Harris, Royal Ivey and Brandon Mouton each scored 10 points for the Longhorns, who won their fifth straight and shot better than 40 percent from the field for the first time in four games.

Jake Sullivan scored 23 points for Iowa State (10-3, 0-2), which played its first game of the season outside its home state.

Texas is 5-0 in conference openers in coach Rick Barnes' five seasons. And after lethargic wins over Princeton, Louisiana Tech and Mount St. Mary's, played its best game in a month.

The Longhorns were 24-of-53 (45 percent) from the field and finished with a 39-32 rebound advantage even as James Thomas, the Big 12's leading rebounder, played just 17 minutes with foul trouble.

Iowa State, meanwhile, has watched the promise of a 10-1 start against the likes of Coe College and Savannah State disintegrate with two straight blowout losses in the Big 12. The Cyclones are in the middle of a four-game stretch against ranked opponents.

Just like in their blowout loss to Kansas, the Cyclones were nearly buried under another horrid first half with 3-of-17 shooting over the first 13 minutes.

Unlike that game, however, the Cyclones at least made this one interesting for a little while in the second.

Texas led 16-4 when Ford finished a nifty behind-the-back dribble in the lane with a tough layup and followed it with a pull-up 3-pointer.

Harris knocked down two 3-pointers for a 26-11 Texas lead. Things got testy after that.

Klotz gave Iowa State's Jared Homan a forearm to the chest while the two were jostling away from the ball. They had to be separated on the other end of the floor when Homan and Ford got into a staredown and Klotz bear-hugged Homan from behind. Thomas was hit with a technical foul for coming off the bench.

That just fired up Klotz, who scored six straight points, including a last-second layup on a pass from Ford for a 34-21 halftime lead.

The Cyclones were not intimidated, however. Sullivan scored 10 of his team's first 12 points of the second half. His 3-pointer cut the Texas lead to 48-44 with 10:18 to play.

That was as close as it got. Ford hit a pull-up jumper, Harris hit another 3 and a 10-0 Texas run made it 58-44 as the Longhorns closed it out with a 22-6 run.

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