Jake Sullivan and Aretha Franklin don’t have much in common, but they’re singing the same tune these days.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T. It’s all Sullivan wants.

“I’m tired of having no respect,” Sullivan said. “I’m tired of getting absolutely none from anyone — the media and other people.”

Sullivan and the rest of the Cyclones will get a shot to increase their stock tonight against Boston College in front of a national audience. The 6 p.m. game will be televised by ESPN.

Iowa State is undefeated through its first five games and is coming off its seventh Cyclone Challenge championship in the last eight years. The Cyclones clinched the championship with an 86-56 victory over Binghamton on Saturday behind 23 points from Jackson Vroman and 21 from Sullivan. They have outscored opponents by an average of 24 points per game so far this season.

Sullivan is averaging a team-high 19.4 points and Vroman’s 15 points is good for second. Vroman is also the team leader in rebounds averaging 9.8 a game.

Boston College (3-2) and its star Troy Bell invade Hilton Coliseum after an 80-62 victory over UMass on Saturday. Bell, a 6-foot-1 guard, has averaged over 20 points per contest this season and torched the Cyclones for 42 points in last year’s matchup — an 86-81 win for the Eagles.

Sullivan said he remembers a few things about that game, played in Massachusetts.

“For one, I couldn’t guard Troy Bell,” Sullivan said. “But the other thing is I’ve got to keep him off the free-throw line, too. Last year he was there 17 times.”

Bell, a career 87-percent free throw shooter, was perfect from the line in the game and 4-for-4 from the field in the final 49 seconds to seal the victory.

Sullivan, who lost 23 pounds in the offseason to help his quickness on defense, said he will share the duties in defending Bell with teammate Tim Barnes. It will renew an old rivalry for Sullivan and Bell. The two both grew up in the Minneapolis area and battled numerous times in AAU tournaments and summer leagues.

Sullivan said it’s another challenge for him, and a tough one at that. “I’ve been really pleased with my defense so far, but Troy Bell is another class of player,” Sullivan said. “When you play against him, he’s going to get 20 [points]. You’ve just got to make it a hard 20.”

Ryan Sidney makes up the second half of Boston College’s backcourt and boasts a 16-point average. At 6-foot-2, he also averages over eight rebounds per game. Freshman forward Ryan Smith also averages double figures in scoring with 16.6 points and 8.2 boards per game.

The Eagles will be without another one of their top players though, as Uka Agbai will miss six weeks with a neck injury. Agbai was averaging 14 points per game before suffering the injury in a loss to Holy Cross.

Along with scoring threats of Sullivan and Vroman, the Cyclones are getting 13 points a game from freshman Adam Haluska. Junior point guard Barnes is the team assist leader with 31 on the season and is the team’s fourth-leading scorer at 11.4 points a game.

ISU head coach Larry Eustachy, who called Bell a professional, admitted that his team is not ready for a Boston College-caliber team yet. He said the Cyclones are infants right now and the team doesn’t have a base to it yet.

“We start a tough seven-game stretch,” Eustachy said. “We have a long ways to go, but we have to play these games. I hope we can stay in them.”