LAWRENCE, Kan. — After almost four years as a Cyclone, it took no time at all for Jared Homan to come up with an answer.

Is this your biggest win?

The senior from Remsen answered without hesitation.

“I would say so,” Homan said. “We beat a great team like Kansas on the road; not many teams are able to win here. And this win definitely puts us in a great position to make the NCAA tournament. This win is huge for us.”

Homan scored 14 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in the Cyclones’ 63-61 overtime victory over No. 2 Kansas. Iowa State hadn’t won in Lawrence since 2001 and hadn’t beaten a team ranked as high as No. 2 since an 80-72 victory over Kansas in the 1995 Big 8 Tournament.

“No. 2 team in the country,” Curtis Stinson said after the game. “It don’t get no better than that. In their home — definitely don’t get no better than that.”

Stinson scored 29 points and all seven ISU points in overtime, none bigger then the final bucket of the game.

With the final seconds ticking away, Stinson drove to the basket and threw up a runner from just inside the foul line, giving the Cyclones their winning basket with just under six ticks left on the clock.

“I came down and I’d had a lot of chances to score in the paint,” Stinson said. “Damion [Staple] set the screen right and Aaron Miles bit on the crossover, and I was able to get in the lane and hit the shot.”

The sophomore guard had chances to put the Jayhawks away in regulation, but missed three of his four free throws in the final 1:33. As a team, the Cyclones hit just three of nine foul shots during that stretch.

Although Stinson could have hung his head after watching his chance to give his team the win slide away, he came back in the extra period and single-handedly carried his team to victory.

“I thought it was good in regulation, just got a bad bounce,” Stinson said. “We still had overtime. In the huddle I said, ‘We’ve been here.’ We played against Texas the same way. We just kept playing.”

After failing to contain the guard during the 45 minutes of game time, Kansas coach Bill Self was still looking for an answer to Stinson’s game.

“He’s great, he’s great,” Self said. “We had no answer for Curtis Stinson. None.”

The win was the Cyclones’ seventh straight, after starting the conference season with five consecutive losses. Iowa State improved to 7-5 in the Big 12, tying it with Texas for fifth in the conference. The Cyclones are one game out of a third-place tie with Oklahoma and Texas Tech.

Kansas has lost its last two games, falling at Texas Tech in double overtime before its extra-period loss to the Cyclones.

The trick for Iowa State will be preventing a letdown for its next contest, Tuesday at Texas A&M.

“After a big win like this, there is a lot of emotion still flying,” Homan said. “We have to calm that down.

“As much as you want to keep reliving this game, you have to put this in the back of your mind and focus on Texas A&M.”

Iowa State’s 2-3 zone rattled the Jayhawks, keeping them from executing their offense.

“Our defense is just good,” said ISU coach Wayne Morgan. “Our kids get after it and have a good understanding of the other team’s offense. We try to put together a defensive scheme where we know what we’re doing on every play.

“Everyone had a good sense of what they were trying to do.”

The Cyclones held Jayhawk star Wayne Simien to 17 points, the only Kansas player in double figures. Both teams shot just 34 percent from the field.

Rahshon Clark grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds and Will Blalock handed out six assists for the Cyclones.

“These guys have courage and they have heart,” Morgan said. “I’m really proud of them, and I’m glad I’m their coach.”

Game notes

• Iowa State’s seven-game winning streak is the third-best win streak in school history. The Cyclones have knocked off a ranked team on each of the last four Saturdays, beating then-ranked No. 13 Oklahoma, No. 20 Texas, No. 25 Texas Tech and No. 2 Kansas.

• Freshman Tasheed Carr got his eighth start for the Cyclones, replacing Curtis Stinson in the lineup. Stinson re-aggravated the injury on his hand in practice earlier this week. It was Carr’s first start since Iowa State’s 72-59 loss at Xavier on Jan. 3.

• Iowa State improved to 12-0 when leading at halftime and 2-1 in overtime contests. The Jayhawks and Cyclones battled in overtime last season at Lawrence, with the Cyclones losing 90-89.

• Jared Homan scored 14 points in the victory, giving him 1,004 in his Cyclone career. He became the 23rd ISU player to score 1,000 or more points in a career.

• The Cyclones held the Jayhawks to 61 points, the lowest point production Iowa State has allowed in Lawrence since 1965, when the Cyclones beat Kansas 64-58.

• Contributing to Kansas’ low scoring was its dismal 3-point shooting. The Jayhawks’ 18.5 percent shooting from beyond the arc was the second-lowest against Iowa State this season. The Cyclones held Drake to 13.6 percent shooting from long range on Nov. 23.

— Amanda Ouverson