Same outcome, different day. That’s the feeling for the ISU men’s basketball team after dropping their sixth straight close game Tuesday night, 52-50, to the Texas A&M Aggies.

“I’m just embarrassed, I really am,” sophomore Shane Power said.

“We had 12,000 fans show up in bad weather to see us play Texas A&M, and we come out and have a terrible second half. I can’t believe the fans cheered us. You just want to give something back.”

Poor free throw shooting hurt the Cyclones in the second half as they made just 12 of 19 from the stripe.

Turnovers were also a factor for the game as Iowa State had 22 to A&M’s 14.

“This can happen, we got out-determined tonight for long periods of time,” ISU head coach Larry Eustachy said. “Too little too late, I told our team.”

But perhaps the most lopsided stat of the game was for senior Tyray Pearson, the team’s leading scorer on the season, who was plagued with foul trouble and had just five points on two of nine from the field.

Sophomore Jake Sullivan scored 18 for the Cyclones and Power added 15 after scoring only two points in the second half.

Junior Omar Bynum grabbed 11 boards to lead Iowa State as well as pitching in eight points.

“It’s rough. We don’t lose games by ten points, I can say that,” Power said. “We’re a very, very competitive team. For whatever reason the ball hasn’t been bouncing our way; I guess you just stick with it until it does.”

Both teams shot 34 percent from the field and 43 percent from behind the arc with Iowa State winning the rebounding battle 42-32.

“We let our lack of shooting affect the whole game. Our team’s capable of shooting like this. It’s part of it, I accept full responsibility,” Eustachy said. “I don’t think, collectively as a team, we worked hard enough to get our shots. I thought we stood, lack of execution.”

The Aggies attack was led by juniors Keith Bean and Bernard King who had 13 and 12 points respectively.

King, A&M’s leading scorer for the season, shot just four of 18 from the floor and two of six from the charity stripe.

“We have to put one behind us even if we don’t want to, just take it as we’ve won and just go in there the next day and just go to work like usual,” Bynum said. “We need to work on being competitive and staying with it.”

With a dwindled crowd, the Hilton intensity didn’t pick up until about five minutes left in the game with a Sullivan three pointer and two completed free throws.

“If it’s not Kansas, we still have to go out there and play hard,” Bynum said. “A win is a win.”

The Cyclones, who drop to 1-7 in the Big 12 Conference and 9-13 overall, will go for their first road win of the season at Texas Tech this Saturday.

It was their first win since beating Missouri on January 9.

“I’m just thinking about my wife right now,” Eustachy said. “She’s probably looking for a rental place to get through this year, move back in about a month.”

TEXAS A&M 52, IOWA STATE 50

TEXAS A&M (9-12)

Bean 5-9 3-4 13, J. King 2-4 0-0 5, Anderson 4-10 3-4 111, Jackson 0-3 0-1 0, B. King 4-18 2-2 12, Leal 0-0 0-0 0, Ress 0-3 0-0 0, Brookhart 0-1 0-0 0, Leatherman 3-6 0-0 9, Scott 1-2 0-0 2, Butterfras 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 19-56 8-11 52.

IOWA STATE (9-13)

Bynum 2-4 4-8 8, Power 5-15 4-4 15, Pearson 2-9 1-4 5, Sullivan 5-11 6-7 18, Jefferson 1-4 0-0 2, Morgan 0-1 0-0 0, Varley 0-1 0-0 0, Homan 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 16-47 15-23 50.

Halftime-Iowa State 25, Texas A&M 23. 3-Point goals-Texas A&M 6-14 (Leatherman 3-5, B. King 2-6, J. King 1-1, Anderson 0-1, Scott 0-1), Iowa State 3-7 (Sullivan 2-3, Power 1-3, Jefferson 0-1). Fouled out-Bean. Rebounds-Texas A&M 32 (Bean 12), Iowa State 42 (Bynum 11). Assists-Texas A&M 9 (B. King 5), Iowa State 7 (Power, Sullivan Morgan 2). Total fouls-Texas A&M 21, Iowa State 17. Technical fouls-Texas A&M bench, Iowa State bench. A-11,926.