Although his team was blown out at Kansas Sunday — their third loss in as many games — ISU head coach Larry Eustachy doesn’t seem too worried.

Eustachy, who was tossed from the 70-51 loss for arguing a call, said his team is the best they’ve been all season.

“I’ve never been more proud of a team and never had a team more together,” Eustachy said. “There seems to be some rift that this team isn’t together or something, but I don’t know why that’s out there. It really doesn’t matter if it’s out there or not. Our team is real close and we feel real comfortable coming in this home stretch.”

The game was no exception to the physical play that often dominates Big 12 basketball. Iowa State was whistled for 26 fouls, while the Jayhawks were called for 15. Kansas outshot the Cyclones at the free throw line 33-13, due in large part to 10 ISU infractions in the first 12 minutes of the game.

Trailing by just six points at halftime, the Cyclones collapsed midway through the second half. After a dunk by Wayne Simien that gave Kansas a 12-point lead with 12:47 remaining, Iowa State’s Jackson Vroman bowled over KU point guard Aaron Miles. A charging foul — which would have disqualified Vroman — was originally called, enraging Eustachy, but was changed to traveling just before a second disqualifying technical foul was called on Eustachy.

One minute later, after Simien secured an offensive rebound, he again tangled with Vroman. Emotions ran high as ISU center Jared Homan, who had joined the fray, shoved Simien and was then knocked in the back of the head by Miles.

Eustachy, who had already been escorted to the locker room by that point, said Monday he couldn’t say whether Miles should have been ejected.

“I can’t answer that,” Eustachy said. “I don’t know the rules about that.”

Kansas head coach Roy Williams said he didn’t think the game was more physical after Eustachy was ejected.

“It was two teams that are really fairly aggressive anyway,” Williams said. “I don’t think either team went across the line. There were some frustrations because of the fouls.”

Chris Thesien, Big 12 associate media relations director, said any determination on further disciplinary action by the conference would normally take at least three days.

He could not confirm that the conference is reviewing the Iowa State-Kansas game.

“The procedure is usually something that is brought to our attention and then we discuss it with the school about how they want to handle it. We move on from there,” Thesien said. “A lot of times, [Big 12 Commissioner] Kevin [Weiberg] just claims that the officials did exactly what they were supposed to do and we move on, but I have not heard anything on it.”

Calls to assistant commissioner John Underwood, who directly deals with those situations, were not returned as of press time.

Iowa State (12-9, 2-8 Big 12) travels to face Texas A&M Wednesday night.

Eustachy said the Aggies (12-9, 4-6) are much improved and are a possible NCAA tournament team.

“Whether we win one or not, we’re as good as we’ve been all year long,” Eustachy said.