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Women's Basketball
UW-Oshkosh (Ex.)
Iowa State University Athletics
Saturday, February 26
Manhattan, Kan.
7:00 PM
Iowa State University
20-8, 8-6
58
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51
Kansas State
18-9, 8-6
1
2
F
Iowa State
26
32
58
Kansas State
22
29
51
Iowa State Beats Kansas State, 58-51
02.26.2011 | Women's Basketball
AMES, Iowa -Iowa State's Kelsey Bolte and Lauren Mansfield combined for 33 points, making five threes in a key second-half surge and then hitting eight free-throws in the last 1:02 to lead No. 25 Iowa State to a 58-51 Big 12 win at Kansas State Saturday in Bramlage Coliseum.
The win clinched a fifth-straight 20 win season by the Cyclones and head coach Bill Fennelly. Iowa State won its third-straight game to improve to 20-8 overall and 8-6 in the Big 12. The Cyclones sit in fourth iplace n the conference. Kansas State is 18-9 and 8-6, but two of those losses are to Iowa State. The Cyclones will play host to Kansas Tuesday at 7 p.m. CST. It will be senior night for Bolte.
Bolte led Iowa State with 19 points and Mansfield had 14 points and a team-high six rebounds. Jalana Childs led KSU with 18 points but didn't score in the last 13:22 of the game on a clutch defensive effort from Iowa State's Chelsea Poppens.
The Cyclones' perimeter defense was strong all night as the Wildcats hit on just 3-of-16 three-point tries, two of those makes were in the last 45 seconds of the game. Iowa State was 18-of-23 from the free-throw line. Kansas State was 8-of-12.
Kansas State scored the first five points of the second half to take a 27-26 lead. Childs, who had scored 19 points in the second-half of the two teams' previous encounter this season, had eight points in the first 7 ½ minutes of the second half. But Bolte countered with four threes, and then Mansfield added a trey to give the Cyclones a 43-34 lead with 10:04 to go.
Kansas State's Taelor Karr hit the Wildcats' first three of the game to close the gap to 47-41 with 3:49 remaining. From there Bolte and Mansfield kept KSU at bay at the free-throw line as Iowa State won in Manhattan for the first time since a 64-61 triumph on Feb. 24, 2007. This is also ISU's first season sweep of KSU since 2007.
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Team Stats
ISU
KS
FG%
.436
.364
3FG%
.429
.188
FT%
.783
.667
RB
34
28
TO
18
11
STL
3
10
Game Leaders
Pts
19
FGM
5
3FGM
4
FTM
5
Pts
14
FGM
4
3FGM
2
FTM
4
Pts
8
FGM
2
3FGM
0
FTM
4
Pts
6
FGM
1
3FGM
0
FTM
4
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