In a tune-up game for this week’s challenging schedule, the Iowa State women’s basketball team trounced Truman State 93-60 Saturday afternoon.

It was highest scoring game for the Cyclones this season, with all 10 players scoring. Megan Taylor and Janel Grimm led the way with 23 and 19 points apiece.

“This was kind of like going through the drive-thru for us today,” Coach Bill Fennelly said. “We just showed up, played and won. The score did not indicate how tough this game was. Truman State played very hard.”

The Cyclones tied a season-high 13 three-pointers, with Taylor and Stacy Frese each making five. Taylor also grabbed nine rebounds.

“Coach said to get the ball inside, but we ended up shooting a lot of threes,” Taylor said.

“[Truman State] was so much smaller than us, they had to collapse down low and our inside guys did a great job of kicking the ball out to us, giving us wide open looks,” she said.

Grimm was able to use her size to dominate down low, hitting on eight of nine field goal attempts. She had three-point plays on three separate occasions and snagged 11 boards.

Frese finished with 15 points and 10 assists, while Amanda Bartz tallied 11.

Truman State did not allow ISU’s top scorer, Jayme Olson, to get on track. The team held the All-American Olson to only four points.

“They were running two and three players at Jayme from the beginning,” said Fennelly. “They just weren’t going to allow her to beat them. When they did that, obviously they couldn’t guard everybody. They decided to make Megan Taylor prove that she could make the outside shot. She played a great game.”

In the first half, both teams looked quite sluggish, and at halftime the score only stood at 37-19. Truman State’s very aggressive defense kept the Cyclones out of sync much of the time, forcing 13 turnovers. Fortunately for ISU, its Division II opponent had 12 of their own.

Truman State managed only 28 percent shooting, while ISU hit at a 55 percent clip.

“I told the kids that sometimes life isn’t fair, because I think the team that played the hardest today lost,” Fennelly said. “Things have been going pretty well for us, but today we took a step back.

“We were lucky today that we were playing a team that didn’t have as much talent,” he said.

“I think we may have been looking ahead a little, but that is no excuse for playing the way we did,” Fennelly said. “The margin of error is very slim and we will have to come out ready to play next week if we want to win.”

“We will have to play a lot better, because the next three games (Drake, Iowa and UNI) will be very tough,” Grimm said. “We have to do all the little things, like reducing our turnovers and improving our free throw shooting. We have to start playing Iowa State basketball and playing with some more pride if we want to continue to win.”

ISU takes on Drake in Des Moines on Tuesday at 7 p.m. and hosts Iowa Saturday at noon.