AUSTIN, Texas — It’s over. And Iowa State has two freshmen to thank.

The Cyclones ended a 28-game road losing streak in the Big 12 on Saturday with a 92-80 overtime win over No. 20 Texas.

Tasheed Carr and Rahshon Clark each have played three straight strong games, and it’s no coincidence that the Cyclones have won all three. Carr had the best game of his young career Saturday, scoring 13 of his 22 points in overtime.

Coach Wayne Morgan knew Carr and Clark had to contribute for Iowa State to have any kind of success, and they’ve come through just when the team was on the verge of collapsing.

Before this streak, the Cyclones (11-8, 3-5 Big 12) had lost six straight games.

“For them to help us makes us even better,” sophomore guard Curtis Stinson said. “They’re young. We’re trying to help them mature just like we’re trying to still learn, too. By them helping us just makes it even better.”

Clark was the star in the previous game, scoring 19 points on 9-for-13 shooting, grabbing eight rebounds and making three steals in a 77-51 victory over Baylor at home. He helped at Texas with 11 points, three rebounds and two steals before fouling out.

During the winning streak, Clark has averaged 13.3 points and 6.3 rebounds while shooting 67 percent (18-for-27). Carr, who plays farther from the basket than Clark, has averaged 14 points and is shooting 56 percent in the three games.

Coming into this stretch, Clark had been averaging 4.8 points and Carr just 2.6.

“They’re like young colts,” Morgan said. “They’re like not even 1-year-old yearlings yet. When they grow up, they’re going to be special.”

The Cyclones got their first league road win in nearly four years after Will Blalock sent the game into overtime with a short shot in the lane that tied it at 68 with 37 seconds left.

Iowa State got its first road win in the Big 12 since beating Kansas State on Feb. 21, 2001. The losing skid started in its following game, in Austin.

Daniel Gibson scored 23 to lead Texas (15-6, 4-4) and Brad Buckman had 20 points and 15 rebounds. But Buckman missed a free throw that would have given the Longhorns a three-point cushion with 49 seconds left before Will Blalock’s tying shot.

Iowa State, the worst 3-point shooting team in the Big 12 this season at 28 percent, hit 8-of-16 against Texas.

The Longhorns, meanwhile, one of the league’s best teams from long range, was 6-of-30 and missed all five 3-pointers in overtime. Gibson and Buckman combined for just six points in the extra session.

Texas has lost three of its last four games since losing leading scorer P.J. Tucker for the season because of academic problems.

Saturday’s victory was the first anyone on the ISU team had experienced on the road in the Big 12. It was especially gratifying for center Jared Homan, the only four-year player in the Cyclones’ slim seven-man rotation.

Iowa State rallied from eight points down in the final 5 minutes of regulation to send the game into overtime, then dominated the extra session to break another streak — 10 straight overtime losses in league games.

“I think definitely past history came into my mind,” Homan said. “But when that happens, you’ve just got to push that to the back. Right now, we’re a different team than we were in the past.”

And they’re a different team than they were Friday, with their version of the 800-pound gorilla — that long road losing streak — off their back.

“This is pure joy,” Morgan said. “Fortunately, we got this one, and hopefully we’re fortunate enough to get some more.”

Game Notes

• Iowa State owns a three-game Big 12 win streak, the Cyclones’ longest such streak since the 2000-01 season. Iowa State won 10 in a row that season, on its way to claiming the Big 12

regular-season championship.

• The Cyclones snapped a six-game overtime losing skid. The last Cyclone overtime win came in the 2000 season opener, a 102-97 win over Morningside.

• Tasheed Carr scored a career-high 22 points, netting 13 of those in overtime. The freshman hit a career-high five 3-pointers, and was 7 of 13 from the field.

• Curtis Stinson tied his career high with 11 rebounds. The guard, who averages nearly five boards a game, also had 17 points and three assists.

• The only Cyclone to play and not score 10 or more was John Neal, who hit a free throw for his only point of the game.

— Grant Wall