Cyclones Improve To 6-0 With 90-61 Win

Saturday, November 25

Ames, Iowa

7:00 PM

Iowa State

6-0

Lake Superior State

1-3

Team	1	2	F
Lake Superior State	35	26	61
Iowa State	53	37	90

Cyclones Improve To 6-0 With 90-61 Win

11.25.2006 | Men's Basketball

Box Score

By: Iowa State University

AMES, Iowa?Mike Taylor continued his spectacular play, scoring 22 points and dishing out a career-high seven assists in Iowa State's 90-61 victory over Lake Superior State Saturday night in Hilton Coliseum. The win improves the Cyclones' record to 6-0, tying for the fifth-best start in school history. ISU head coach Greg McDermott is just the second coach in school history to win his first six games, achieving his sixth win while celebrating his 42^nd birthday tonight.

Taylor picked up where he left off in his last game, where he scored a career-high 33 points at Minnesota. The junior from Milwaukee, Wis., gave ISU an early 21-14 lead, scoring 11 points and dishing out four assists in the first 10 minutes of the game. Taylor scored 22 points in the first half and made his first six 3-point attempts. Dating back to his last game (Minnesota), Taylor had a streak of nine consecutive 3-pointers made before missing. His 22 points in the first half tonight combined with his 25 points in the second half at Minnesota gave him 47 points in consecutive halves of competition. He finished the game with the same total, playing just five minutes in the second half.

In the beginning, the Lakers did not go away without a fight, forcing seven ISU turnovers and making four treys early in the game, two by Andrew Kearney. ISU had a slim 39-33 margin with less than four minutes remaining in the opening half, but a 14-2 run to close the half gave the Cyclones a 53-35 advantage at intermission.

ISU opened up a 25-point lead (64-39) with less than 15 minutes remaining in the contest when Mark Currie came off the bench to hit his second trey of the game. Currie finished with a career-high six points. ISU enjoyed a 29-point lead (74-45) with 11:26 remaining after Jessan Gray hit his second 3-pointer of the game. The Cyclones emptied their bench shortly after. Gray finished the game with a career-high 14 points on 6-of-7 shooting from the field.

ISU shot a season-high 53.3 percent from the floor and drilled a season-high 11 3-pointers. It marks just the 15^th time in school history where ISU made 11 or more 3-pointers in a game.

Iowa State travels to Northern Iowa Wednesday night (Nov. 29) to face the Panthers in the UNI-Dome at 7 p.m.

Notes

- Greg McDermott is now 4-3 lifetime as a head coach on games played on his birthday (Nov. 25).

- ISU has started the season at 6-0, tying for the fifth-best start in school history:

1996-97 10-0

1940-41 8-0

1941-42 8-0

2003-04 7-0

2006-07 6-0

2000-01 6-0

1993-94 6-0

1956-57 6-0

1934-35 6-0

- ISU head coach Greg McDermott is just the second coach in school history to win his first six games at the helm (Wayne Morgan- 7).

- ISU hit a season-high 11 3-pointers ...ISU has made 20 treys in its last two games.

- ISU's 11 treys marks just the 15^th time in school history where ISU made 11 or more 3-pointers in a game.

- Jessan Gray tallied a career-high 14 points, making his first six shots from the field before missing, going 6-of-7 from the field (85.7 percent).

- Mike Taylor made his first six 3-point attempts of the game...dating back to his last game, Taylor had made nine consecutive 3-pointers (he made his last three treys at Minnesota).

- Taylor, who scored 25 points in the second half vs. Minnesota, tallied a combined 47 points in consecutive halves (22 in first half vs. Lake Superior State).

- ISU's 53 points in the first half is a season high.

- Taylor tallied a career-high seven assists

- Mark Currie recorded a career-high six points.

- Iowa State's 90 points scored is a season-high.