Music blared, fans cheered and the benches cleared.

And then it ended.

Kansas guard Darrell Arthur silenced an alert ISU crowd with a second-half jumper to end the Cyclones’ biggest run of the night in the Jayhawks’ 75-64 win Wednesday.

“It hurt,” said sophomore guard Wesley Johnson. “We really just had to stay poised and go out there and do what we had to do.”

The Cyclones did that to open the second half.

Trailing by 13, Iowa State opened the second half on a 7-0 run. Johnson connected on a jump shot, while junior Sean Haluska hit one of his own with 18:20 remaining to bring the Cyclones to within eight. Haluska scored five of Iowa State’s points in the run.

“We let their hottest shooter get off two good looks,” said Kansas coach Bill Self.

And Iowa State’s defense held them in check.

After shooting 48.5 percent from the field to open the game, the Jayhawks missed a pair of shots by Arthur and Darnell Jackson to open the second half.

Haluska then connected on his second jump shot, sending Cyclone players onto the floor and Iowa State fans cheering as Self called his first timeout of the half.

The pandemonium ended when Arthur drilled an 18-footer and silenced the crowd.

“If he misses that, we go down and score after their timeout, the momentum stays with us and it’s a different deal,” said ISU head coach Greg McDermott.

But it didn’t. The Jayhawks built up a 16-point lead on a Sasha Kaun basket with 14:32 remaining.

Iowa State didn’t make another field goal for over four minutes until freshman Craig Brackins drove to the lane for a layup with 14:11 remaining.

“It’s always tough – they [Kansas] are a good team for a reason,” said senior center Jiri Hubalek.

“And they can score with a variety of players, down low and outside.”

That group includes Arthur, who finished with a team-high 18 points. The sophomore shot 9 of 18 from the field, but it was his first basket of the second half that set things in motion.

McDermott said it was the shot from Kansas he was hoping to see out of the timeout.

“Him taking that shot compared to [Mario] Chalmers or [Brandon] Rush or somebody on the block taking it at you or the guards at you off the dribble is probably as good as we could have hoped for in that situation,” McDermott said.

Chalmers and Rush finished the night with 15 points each.

The eight-point deficit was as close as Iowa State got.