Jake Sullivan’s three-pointer from the top of the

key may have kicked

things off for Iowa State in its matchup with Kansas

State Saturday, but it

was Shane Power and Omar Bynum who brought the house

down in Hilton Coliseum.

With a touch pass and a lay-up, the two Cyclones

secured a 73-71 victory

over the Wildcats with only .5 seconds left.

“We just tried to make something happen,” Bynum

said. “I had to get a

target and aim for the backboard.”

The Cyclones battled their way through a game full

of questionable calls

and missed opportunities. Earning a number of

traveling calls and personal

fouls, Iowa State trailed the Wildcats through the

first half of the game

and well into the second.

“I couldn’t understand a lot of the things that

were going on. The

traveling, it was kind of a strange game that way”

said ISU head coach Larry

Eustachy. “I was really disappointed the first half.”

Eustachy, visibly upset and noticeably vocal,

questioned a number of

calls made by the officials. He earned the ISU bench a

technical in the

first half.

Suppressing his anger, but not his frustration,

Eustachy was able to

avoid a second technical, which kept him from being

thrown out of the game.

Tyray Pearson netted 20 points for Iowa State along

with 11 rebounds.

Power followed closely with 18 points, Sullivan with

13 and Bynum with 12.

The Cyclones raised their record to 4-10 in conference

play (12-16 overall.)

Kansas State falls to 5-9, 11-14 overall.

Ranked second in the nation and first in the Big 12

Conference in

three-point shooting, Sullivan was shut down by Kansas

State’s Larry Reid,

making only one of his six three-pointers.

Reid led the Wildcats with 21 points and five assists,

and earned the praise

of Eustachy

“Reid is an underrated player, he knocks down

shots and guards the heck

out of the other players,” Eustachy said. “I thought

Kansas State deserved

to win the game.”

In the end, the game was decided in the last two

minutes of play. With

the Cyclones down by one, Sullivan hit two free throws

setting off an

eight-point rally narrowly clinching the win for Iowa

State. Jared Homan

followed with two free throws his own.

“It was the most focused I’ve ever been this year,”

Homan said.

Following Homan’s two, Sullivan stepped up and sank

another two from the

charity stripe with 15 seconds left. Reid then hit a

three-pointer with 10

seconds to go, tying the game at 71, setting up

Bynum’s winner.