Completed Event: Women's Basketball versus UW-Oshkosh (Ex.) on October 28, 2025 , Win , 84, to, 53
Final
Women's Basketball
84
UW-Oshkosh (Ex.)
53
Iowa State University Athletics
Thursday, March 2
Ames, Iowa
TBA
Iowa State
16-11, 7-9
56
vs
46
Colorado
9-20, 3-13
1
2
F
Colorado Buffaloes
23
23
46
Iowa State Cyclones
17
39
56
Iowa State Uses Huge Second-Half Run to Defeat Colorado on Senior Night
03.02.2006 | Women's Basketball
AMES, Iowa - Iowa State struggled early, but used a 21-0 run midway through the second half to blow the game wide open, defeating Colorado 56-46 on Senior Night in Hilton Coliseum Thursday.
Iowa State (16-11, 7-9 Big 12) shot a season-low 21.9 percent and scored just 17 points in the first half, its lowest single-half output in over two years. However, the winds shifted in the second half as the Cyclones came out firing on all cylinders, more than doubling their percentage by shooting a 52 percent clip in the second frame. Colorado (9-20, 3-13) shot just 7-of-23 (30.4 percent) and went without a field goal for a nine-minute stretch in the second half until Yari Escalera connected on a 3-pointer from the right wing with 7:05 left to play. The Buffs began the second half shooting 1-of-14 from the field.
"It was just another one of those first halves we've been struggling with," ISU head coach Bill Fennelly said. "We guarded hard enough to be in the game, but we went in at half just down six and we were still in the game."
Senior Brittany Wilkins scored a game-high 22 points along with eight rebounds and collected 11 of the 21 points in ISU's second half burst.
"Brittany played solid in the second half, and the kids sensed she was hot and got her the ball," Fennelly said. "The kids passed up open looks just to get her the ball and she capitalized."
Wilkins, who played her final regular-season game in a Cyclone uniform, ended the 21-point run with a running jump-hook as the shot clock expired for a 42-27 bulge with 7:23 remaining. This all came in the second half after she was forced to sit out the last 6:48 of the first half after picking up three fouls.
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"The energy and enthusiasm from my teammates was there tonight," Wilkins said. "It was just one of those nights, I guess."
Sophomore Lisa Bildeaux chipped in with a career-high 13 rebounds (all defensive), while Lyndsey Medders finished with 15 points. Whitney Law led the Buffs with 20 points on the night.
Colorado jumped to an early 11-2 lead in the first 3:45 as Jackie McFarland made her first three field goal attempts to build the nine-point bulge.
The Cyclone backcourt continued to struggle early on as the trio of Lyndsey Medders, Heather Ezell and Megan Ronhovde combined to go 1-of-15 from the floor and 0-of-6 beyond the arc in the first half.
Iowa State got as close as 16-13 with 10:00 left, but Jasmina Ilic hit a three from the right wing and a 12-foot fadeaway to push the margin to 21-13. Colorado then went more than five minutes without a field goal until Ilic hit a turnaround jumper to give CU a 23-17 heading into the locker room.
ISU won for the first time this season when scoring less than 60 points as it was 0-6 previously. Senior Kandice Beenken started the first game of her career.
With the win, ISU has earned a No. 9 seed in the Big 12 Tournament and will take on eighth-seeded Texas Tuesday, March 7th, at noon. Texas defeated Iowa State 80-50 in the only meeting between the two schools, back on Jan. 11 in Austin.
Team Stats
CU
ISU
FG%
.354
.351
3FG%
.231
.200
FT%
.750
.765
RB
31
42
TO
14
9
STL
3
5
Game Leaders
Pts
22
FGM
10
3FGM
0
FTM
2
Pts
15
FGM
4
3FGM
1
FTM
6
Pts
9
FGM
3
3FGM
1
FTM
2
Pts
4
FGM
2
3FGM
0
FTM
0
Players Mentioned
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