Completed Event: Men's Basketball at #23 Creighton (Exhibition) on October 17, 2025 , Loss , 58, to, 71
Final
Men's Basketball
58
#23 Creighton (Exhibition)
71
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Iowa State University Athletics
Saturday, December 20
Des Moines, Iowa
TBA
Iowa State
6-0
83
at
77
Drake
3-4
1
2
F
Iowa State
43
40
83
Drake
28
49
77
Cyclones Have Will to Win Against Drake
12.20.2003 | Men's Basketball
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Freshman Will Blalock scored 10 of his season-high 23 points in the final four minutes and Iowa State recovered after blowing a 17-point lead to beat Drake 83-77 on Saturday night.
Iowa State (6-0) survived 27 turnovers and the foul troubles of post players Jackson Vroman and Jared Homan to win at Drake (3-4) for the first time since 1995.
Homan and Vroman scored 12 points each and combined for 19 rebounds but played only half the game. Jake Sullivan also scored 12 for the Cyclones, who came back strong after Drake took its only lead, 66-65, on Nick Grant's free throw with 5:13 left.
Vroman answered with a basket inside and Iowa State went on to score eight straight points to open a 73-66 lead while Drake was coming up empty on five consecutive possessions.
Blalock then got three key baskets down the stretch - a driving layup that made it 75-69, a floater that he released just before landing for a 77-71 lead and a dunk off a long pass from Curtis Stinson against Drake's press, making it 81-73 with 21 seconds remaining.
Stinson, also a freshman, committed 10 turnovers but had nine assists, eight points and six rebounds.
Joshua Robinson led Drake with 18 points and Klayton Korver scored 11. Korver hit three 3-pointers in a 93-second span to get the Bulldogs back into the game after they trailed by 15 at halftime.
With Vroman and Homan both on the bench, Sullivan scored nine straight points in a 13-0 run that gave Iowa State a 23-6 lead 10 minutes into the game. Vroman went out after getting his second foul with 15:53 left in the half. Homan left to a chorus of boos at the 14:52 mark after his third foul - a technical for shoving Drake's David Bancroft.
Team Stats
IS
DRAKE
FG%
.519
.319
3FG%
.500
.367
FT%
.880
.769
RB
49
30
TO
27
12
STL
3
14
Game Leaders
Pts
23
FGM
7
3FGM
1
FTM
8
Pts
12
FGM
4
3FGM
3
FTM
1
Pts
12
FGM
6
3FGM
0
FTM
0
Pts
12
FGM
2
3FGM
0
FTM
8
Players Mentioned
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