Iowa State still has not won in Stillwater since 1988, and that continued with a last second 69-67 loss at Oklahoma State. The Cyclones saw their three game winning streak come to an end.

Chris Allen led the Cyclones with 22 points while Royce White finished with 15 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists. “They just battled all night and they did exactly what you’re supposed to do in this league at home,” White said.

White says the Cowboys made the key shots down the stretch. “The shots they hit down the stretch, some of the guys that hit those shots, we couldn’t have played any better, the people who took shots were exactly the people we scouted who we wanted to take shots and they just hit them,”White said.

The Cyclones fall to 7-4 in the Big 12 and 17-7 overall.

Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg wants his team to focus on the next game and not the big picture. A three game winning streak has moved the Cyclones into the thick of the Big-12 race heading into Tuesday night’s game at Oklahoma State.

Iowa State is 7-3 and a game behind tri-leaders Kansas, Baylor and Missouri. “If you look at this league, I think anybody can beat any team on any given night, so you’ve just got to worry about yourself and try to take care of business and see what happens at the end of the conference season,” Hoiberg says.

The Cyclones are shooting better than 46% from three point range in the last three games and Hoiberg says much of the reason is the play of sophomore Royce White. He says they are tough team to defend with White down on the block and he says when he gets double-teamed, he does not force the action. Hoiberg says White took just one shot in the last game, and that shows his unselfishness.

Hoiberg says many of the three pointers come about when opponents double-team White. He says they make sure White has an outlet to throw the ball to by keeping their spacing. Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford says it takes a variety of defenses to slow White down as he can hurt you in so many ways and he is “a special player.”

Oklahoma State is 4-6 in the Big-12 and 11-12 overall.

Royce White hit a shot with 1.8 seconds to go as Iowa State beat Kansas State in Ames 72-70 Tuesday. The Cyclones were down by 14 in the second half until they made their comeback run. White says it was important to come back with a win after the upset over Kansas on Saturday.

“We didn’t want to lose this game because then losing on your home court in conference cancels out anything great that you do like beating a great team like Kansas. The was a big emphasis and I think we didn’t come out like we should, but we were able to fight back,” White said.

White says while they didn’t play well in the first half, they had something in the second half that helped them through. “Urgency, I think it was urgency. We got to the 50-50 balls, we got some big rebounds, we actually got out in transition after getting some big rebounds, and hit some big shots,” White said.

White led I.S.U. with 22 points and had8 rebounds. Chris Allen had 15 points and Scott Christoperson added 11. Coach Fred Hoiberg said they were able to play through the early rough stretch. “It was a hug win for us, you’ve got to find a way to win some games like that, we were to say bad is to put it mildly, we were not very good in that first have,” Hoiberg said.

Hoiberg said they got exactly what they wanted at the end of the game, getting the ball into White and setting a screen for him to get the shot while taking the clock all the way down.

The Cyclones move to 16-6 overall and 6-3 in the conference. Iowa State travels to Oklahoma on Saturday.

Iowa State returns to action tonight against Kansas State looking to avoid a letdown after upsetting Kansas on Saturday. Cyclone coach, Fred Hoiberg, says they got a lot of great exposure from that win on national TV.

“You know our guys from start to finish against Kansas played as hard, with as much passion as we have all year. I’ve been so proud of our guys how they’ve come together, especially since the conference season started, and you have to in order to compete in this league, you have to compete with that type of energy every time you take the floor,” Hoiberg says.

He said the recognition is great, but they have 10 more games to go in the season. Hoiberg says the game against the Wildcasts will be physical.

He says K-State gets almost half of its shots back off the offensive rebounds. “We talked about it against Kansas, we did a great job of limiting them to five offensive rebounds, two second chance points. We’re going to have twice as good an effort against Kansas State in order to do that same thing,” Hoiberg said.

Iowa State is 15-6 overall and 5-3 in the Big 12 conference and alone in fourth place. K-State is 15-5 and 4-4 in the conference, in fifth place. Tip off is 8 p.m.

The Iowa State Cyclones had the weekend to celebrate their 72-64 upset of fifth-ranked Kansas in Ames Saturday, but have to be ready to face another big challenge at home on Tuesday. Scott Christopherson talked in the post-game about the importance of beating a top-ten team.

“It feels great, obviously playing in the NCAA tournament is a goal of ours…if you want to play in the NCAA tournament you’ve got to beat some of the best teams in the country and you’ve got to have the quote, unquote signature wins, but at the same time, we’re not going to get into the NCAA tournament with five conference wins,” he said.

Christopherson said they need to have another good home performance against 22nd ranked Kansas State. “We’ve got a short turnaround, we’ve got another top 25 team coming in here on Tuesday, and hopefully we can lock in and focus and come back and take care of business,” according to Christopherson. The player’s comments echoed what coach Fred Hoiberg told the team after the win.

“We’ve got another big game on Tuesday, I told ‘em how proud I am of them, how big a win this was for our guys, enjoy it, but come back ready to go,” Hoiberg said. It’s the first Cyclone win over a top five team since a win over Kansas in 1996 when Hoiberg was a player.

“It’s a great win for our program, I love our guys, they’ve really done a great job of buying into everything we’ve talked to them about, and we need to use this game as a momentum builder for us, a confidence builder, and go out and play well the rest of the season,” Hoiberg said.

Iowa State is now 15-6 overall and 5-3 in the Big 12.

Texa A&M got a couple of free throws with two-point-four seconds to go and held on to down the Iowa State women 66-64 in close ballgame in Texas Sunday. Cyclone assistant coach Latoja Shaben said it was tough to lose another close game on the road.

She said this was different from the last game, as they were in it to the end and the other team just made one more play.

Shaben said they played well against the 14th rated team in the country. “We just didn’t make the shots when we needed to, you’ve just got to give credit to A&M,” Shaben said.

Chelseas Poppens led Iowa State with 22 points. Iowa State falls to 11-8 overall and 2-6 in the Big 12.