IOWA CITY — Adam Haluska just made a lot of Cyclone fans very angry.

In his first game against his former team since transferring to Iowa, Haluska led the Hawkeyes with 20 points as they downed Iowa State 70-63 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Friday night.

Haluska said he’s just glad the game’s over with.

“It can die and lay to rest for another year,” Haluska said. “I think it will be a little tougher then.”

It was an ugly, scrappy game littered with fouls on both sides,

especially for Iowa State. It’s never good to have two players foul out with more than seven minutes left in the game, and even worse when one’s a star player.

Junior Anthony Davis picked up his fifth foul with 8:56 remaining, with Curtis Stinson quickly following him at the 7:46 mark. Stinson was limited to only 28 minutes of playing time as he got in foul trouble early in the second half.

“Will [Blalock] and I just got together and said, ‘Curtis is out of the game; I’m going to look for you, you look for me,'” said center Jared Homan.

Without Stinson in the lineup, Homan and Blalock did make it tough for the Hawkeyes. After trailing 34-32 at the half, Iowa State continued to trail the rest of the game, but a made free throw by Homan with just over two minutes left in the game brought the Cyclones to within one at 61-60.

“That’s a sign of a great team,” Stinson said. “I’m proud of my teammates.”

But a lay-up by Iowa’s Greg Brunner took away all Cyclone momentum and turned the game into a free-throw contest Iowa State would not win.

Turnovers proved to be the downfall for the Cyclones, as they committed 16, with Iowa scoring 17 points off of them. Iowa State also struggled from the 3-point line, failing to make a single shot and missing six.

“It was a hard fought game,” ISU head coach Wayne Morgan said. “My team made too many mistakes. We didn’t make any threes and made too many mistakes.”

Neither team managed to crack the 40 percent barrier from the field.

Haluska and Homan were the only players in the game who took more than one shot and still managed to shoot better than 50 percent. Homan led all scorers with 25 points and added another double-double to his growing list with 11 rebounds.

“Homan was magnificent,” Morgan said. “He gave us everything he had tonight; I can’t say enough about how good he was tonight.”

Blalock finished with 15 points, and Stinson poured in 14 on only 5-of-15 shooting. He also committed six turnovers.

“I’m not a superman, I’m just a player,” Stinson said. “I play well on nights, and some nights I won’t.”

Brunner also and collected the game’s other double-double, scoring 11

points with 13 rebounds. Jeff Horner and Pierre Pierce were the other Hawkeyes in double figures with 12 and 15 points, respectively.

Iowa 70, Iowa State 63

at Iowa City

Iowa State (63) — Faulkner 0-2 2-2 2, Homan 9-17 7-10 25, Stinson 5-15 4-4 14, Carr 0-1 0-0 0, Blalock 7-19 1-2 15, Neal 0-2 2-2 2, Clark 0-0 0-0 0, Staple 0-1 0-0 0, Davis 1-3 1-2 3, George 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 23-62 17-22.

Iowa (70) — Brunner 3-10 5-8 11, Hansen 3-8 2-2 8, Haluska 7-13 2-2 20, Horner 2-6 8-10 12, Pierce 6-18 3-4 15, Thompson 0-2 0-0 0, Thomas 1-1 0-1 2, Reed 0-1 0-0 0, Henderson 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 22-60 22-29.

Halftime — Iowa 34, Iowa State 32. 3-Point goals — Iowa State 0-6 (Blalock 0-2, Neal 0-2, Stinson 0-1, Carr 0-1), Iowa 4-17 (Haluska 4-8, Pierce 0-4, Horner 0-2, Brunner 0-2, Reed 0-1). Fouled out — Stinson, Davis, Haluska. Rebounds — Iowa State 47 (Homan 11), Iowa 39 (Brunner 13). Assists — Iowa State 11 (Blalock 4), Iowa 14 (Horner 7). Total fouls — Iowa State 25, Iowa 17. A — 15,312.