DeAndre Kane paraded around the court at Hilton Coliseum, a wide smile across his face as he pointed to the crowd and slapped hands of young fans.

He stopped short of the tunnel, bowed and walked off the floor.

The senior guard scored 27 points, including five in the final 25 seconds to help lift No. 16 Iowa State (23-7, 11-7 Big 12) to a thrilling 85-81 comeback victory against Oklahoma State on Saturday.

The biggest play for Kane wasn’t a shot, but rather the lack of one. With 1.6 seconds remaining in regulation, Naz Long stood on the right side of the court calling for the ball.

“Kane, hit me,” Long yelled.

Kane found the sophomore guard, who took two dribbles and sunk a 25-foot 3-pointer on the right wing as time expired to send the game to overtime where the Cyclones finished for a senior day victory.

“He could’ve easily taken it himself — it’s his senior night — he’s more than capable of knocking it down,” Long said afterward. “I just put it up there to give it a chance and when it went down it felt good.”

The Cyclones fell behind by as many as 16 points with 16 minutes to play before using a 28-10 run in just more than eight minutes to pull ahead 57-55.

“You just keep playing,” said Kane, who also dished out eight assists and had seven rebounds. “You get down 16, if you stop playing, they go up 30. For us, coach got us together and told us to keep our heads up and keep playing. I think we did that in the second half. We kept fighting.”

After scoring 25 points in the first half, the Cyclones combined to score 60 in the second half and overtime. Iowa State made 18-of-33 shots in the final 25 minutes of action, including five 3-pointers.

Georges Niang scored 15 of his 22 points after halftime, all 14 of Long’s points came in the second half, and Kane scored 20 of his 27 following the break.

“That first 23, 24 minutes we were just stuck in mud out there on the offensive end,” said ISU coach Fred Hoiberg. “We were just walking the ball down the floor.”

Tied 66-all with 58 seconds remaining, Oklahoma State (20-11, 8-10 Big 12) eventually pulled ahead and led 70-68 when Phil Forte was fouled with five seconds to play.

The 88.9 percent free-throw shooter sunk the first to make it a 3-point game. The second rolled off the rim where ISU freshman Matt Thomas collected it and fed it toward halfcourt to Kane.

From there, Kane found Long.

“I did call for it back,” Kane joked.

As Long rose deep behind the line — just as he did Feb. 3 with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer against Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla., to send the game to a third overtime — he prayed it would go in. The game-tying shot swished through the net and sent a sellout crowd of 14,384 fans at Hilton into a frenzy.

“He has the utmost confidence,” said ISU senior forward Melvin Ejim. “The kid just hits big shots.”

The Cyclones played the bulk of overtime without Niang — who fouled out in the first minute — and all of it without Ejim after he fouled out late in the second half.

Before Ejim exited, he scored 12 points and became only the fourth player in Big 12 history to record 1,500 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career.

“Mel fouled out, Georges fouled out, but players stepped up,” Kane said. “That’s a team effort.”

One that sent the seniors away from Hilton with one last victory and Kane around the arena to celebrate it.

“I was happy, excited,” Kane said. “We won this game, we’re happy and we can put the regular season behind us and now we’ve got to go play for a championship.”