By halftime, it was apparent that the ISU women’s basketball team was going to win. With 41 seconds remaining in the first half, Iowa State lead Nebraska 49-18 Saturday afternoon when Cyclone forward Tracy Gahan raced across the Hilton hardwood and looked for another basket in transition. Freshman point guard Erica Junod fired her a pass, and as Gahan tossed the lay-up into the air, Nebraska’s Amanda Cleveland slapped Gahan’s arm and was called for a foul.The lay-up fell through, and the crowd erupted. ISU head coach Bill Fennelly calmly sat with his face in his left hand not needing to yell on this day.After Gahan made the free throw, he casually looked at the scoreboard that now showed his club leading 52-18. The ISU rout did not lose a step in the second half. The Cyclones beat the Cornhuskers easily, 89-46. Before Saturday, no team had scored 80 points on Nebraska.Reserve ISU center Kate Bauman made that come true when she gave the Cyclones its 80th point with 9:27 left in the game on a free throw. While the Cyclones had 22 assists and stifling defense, the Cornhuskers shot an abysmal 29 percent from the floor and committed 29 turnovers.They won with 11-16 shooting from the three-point line, including one stretch of seven in a row.”Nebraska probably wasn’t at their best today, and we were,” Fennelly said. “[It was] a game that you need to win at home, and we found the right buttons at least today.”Despite the most lopsided loss in school history, Nebraska head coach Paul Sanderford is glad Fennelly reached deep into his bench and played 12 people.”Bill was really nice to us today. I think they could have scored 130,” Sanderford said. “It was the kind of day that makes you want to sell insurance.”Nebraska’s leading scorer, center Casey Leonhardt, finished with nine points. No Cornhusker scored 10 or more.”I thought Casey Leonhardt was very average,” Sanderford said of his senior who came into the game averaging 13.3 points per game.”We didn’t execute today,” Leonhardt said. “There is no excuse for that.”However, her counterpart did.In only 19 minutes on the floor, ISU center Angie Welle scored 22 points and grabbed 9 rebounds. “Welle looked like an All-American to me,” Sanderford said.She shot 8-11 from the field, and gave the Cyclones its first eight points. The last of which came on a three-pointer from the top of the key that sparked an 18-0 run for the Cyclones.”We just had so much emotion today,” Welle said. “It’s hard to stop a team with so much emotion. Everybody had an awesome game.”She had many easy looks, thanks in part to the play of Cyclone guard Lindsey Wilson, in busting through Nebraska’s defense. “They tried to press us a little bit,” Wilson said, “but we just attacked them before they attacked us.”Wilson finished with 17 points and four assists, slashing and dishing at every turn.”We were just hitting on all cylinders,” she said. “It felt like we were breaking [the press] against them. We had Angie in the middle. We had people pulling up, driving, shooting threes, and I think that’s what made it so hard for them to guard us.”