Bolte, Mansfield Lead Iowa State Past Michigan, 60-47

Sunday, December 5

Ames, Iowa

2:00 PM

Iowa State

6-1

Michigan (Big Ten/Big 12 Challenge)

4-4

Team	1	2	F
Michigan	24	23	47
Iowa State	26	34	60

Bolte, Mansfield Lead Iowa State Past Michigan, 60-47

12.05.2010 | Women's Basketball

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By: cyclones.com

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AMES, Iowa - Kelsey Bolte tallied 20 points, including several key three-point shots to lead 17th-ranked Iowa State to a 60-47 win over Michigan Sunday in the Big Ten-Big 12 Challenge at Hilton Coliseum. Cyclone point guard Lauren Mansfield added 13 points and a career-high 10 assists to register her first career double-double. Iowa State center Anna Prins finished with 10 points. Iowa State, which is 6-1, will play at Iowa Thursday at 7 p.m. Michigan falls to 4-4.

Michigan kept it close most of the game, working to penetrate Iowa State's defense. Bolte hit a pair of threes to give the Cyclones a 44-38 advantage with 8:16 left. The Wolverines drew to within four points but that was all the closer they would get for the balance of the game.

The Cyclones led 46-42 when Bolte ripped the nets with another three when the shot clock had nearly expired. A Mansfield trey and a high-arching three-pointer by Prins with 2:55 remaining gave Iowa State 55-47 advantage. Michigan, which was led by the 10-point afternoons from Veronica Hicks and Rachel Sheffer, spent the rest of the game frantically fouling to get the Cyclones to the free-throw line.

Iowa State had dug itself an early hole. The Cyclones came out hitting just on two of its first 13 three-point attempts. When Michigan's Sam Arnold hit a shot underneath her own basket, the Wolverines had their biggest lead at 24-17 with 4:29 left in the first half.

Iowa State then started warming up. Bolte hit a three and Jessica Schroll made a pair of free throws before Mansfield hit a jumper with the shot clock in its final seconds. That effort tied the score at 24-24 at the 2:11 mark on the clock. When Iowa State inbounded the ball with 6.1 seconds left on the first half's last possession, Mansfield drove the length of the floor for a layup at the buzzer that gave Iowa State its first lead in nine minutes, 26-24 at halftime.

The Cyclones' first half effort was aided by a decisive victory on the defensive glass that repeatedly gave Michigan just one shot per possession. The Wolverines didn't have a single second-chance bucket before halftime.

The Cyclones held a decisive 43-31 edge on the glass in the game, getting 10 rebounds from Chelsea Poppens.

The win was the 52nd straight victory in Ames against a non-conference, regular season foe by Iowa State head coach Bill Fennelly's Iowa Staters.