With a towel draped around his neck, Jake Sullivan sprawled out on his courtside seat, shared a laugh with teammate Tim Barnes and chatted with some adoring youngsters.

Minutes later, Sullivan led the team to the awards table to collect the Cyclone Challenge championship trophy after helping Iowa State drill Binghamton 86-56 Saturday night. Sullivan, who had 21 points and six rebounds against the Bearcats, was named tournament MVP.

Even after losing a tooth in the first few minutes of the game, Jackson Vroman had 23 points and 14 rebounds. The contact, a shoulder to the face blow from Binghamton’s Sebastian Hermenier, also jarred another tooth loose.

“I pushed it back up in there for now,” said Vroman, who joined Sullivan and Adam Haluska on the all-tournament team.

Haluska, who is just a freshman, chipped in with 18 points on 8-for-11 shooting.

Iowa State (5-0) held Binghamton to six field goals in the first half, and had the game well in hand at the break with a 19-point lead. The Cyclones set the nets on fire in the second half, connecting on more than 70 percent of their shots to put the game away.

“It was our most complete game, without a doubt,” Sullivan said.

ISU head coach Larry Eustachy said he wasn’t going to let his team take the Bearcats lightly. He called Binghamton, a New York school less than half the size of Iowa State, a possible NCAA tournament team.

“We really wanted to bury this team,” Eustachy said. “I thought we were more focused over a 40-minute period.”

On Friday, the Cyclones defeated Western Illinois 59-44 to advance to the championship game, but they committed 23 turnovers in the game and only shot 32 percent from the field in the second half. Barnes accounted for nine of those turnovers, but turned in a solid performance against Binghamton, registering five points, five rebounds and nine assists. He had just one turnover in 38 minutes of work.

Vroman also came back to post big numbers after getting just four points against Western Illinois. He said he used Friday’s sub-par scoring as motivation for the Bearcats and tried some new techniques.

“I worked on trying to get the ball a couple more steps off the block and facing up, rather than playing with my back to the basket,” Vroman said.

Even though it was a dominating performance, Eustachy said his team is not ready to face Boston College. The Eagles come to Ames on Tuesday for a nationally televised contest on ESPN.

“I just tried to call [Boston College coach Al Skinner] and cancel it, but he’s pretty excited about his win today,” Eustachy mused.

Vroman said he’s not satisfied either and hopes the team can keep improving.

“We know we’ve got a long ways to go before we’re where we want to be,” Vroman said.