Another overtime game. Another overtime loss for Iowa State.

Last Monday, the Cyclones went to overtime at Hilton Coliseum against Texas. The Longhorns found a way to come out of Ames with a 74-70 win. Tonight, Iowa State traveled to Oklahoma State for its first Big 12 road game of the season.

The second half ended with a couple controversial calls for both teams, but in the end the Cowboys finished strong and closed out the Cyclones in a much-needed win.

Here are the takeaways from tonight’s game.

Runs throughout the game

It was a game of long runs for each team, but Oklahoma State had the needed run toward the end of overtime to surpass Iowa State for the win.

The Cyclones started the early part of the first half with a 4-3 lead, but the Cowboys went on a 9-0 run to make it a 12-4 lead, which they held until the 2:50 mark in the first half. Iowa State regained that lead and ended the first half with a 34-32 score.

The only way the Cyclones got back in the game was the help from a 17-0 run from 5:39 left in the first half to 52 seconds left in the first half.

To start the second half, Oklahoma State made eight straight points to take the lead again. It became more of a back and forth game for the majority of the second half until the last three minutes.

The Cyclones had a 76-68 lead with 3:36 left in the game, but the Cowboys went on a 9-0 run to take over the lead with just over a minute left. That run caused the game to go into overtime.

Once in overtime, it was a competitive battle between the two teams until 1:40 mark. At that point, it was a tie game at 87 points, but the Cowboys went on a 9-0 run to not only take over the lead, but finish the game with that run.

Those runs were needed to keep each team alive at moments throughout the entire game, but Oklahoma State found the last run to take home the first Big 12 win of the season for the Cowboys.

Physical play in the Big 12

Iowa State started the Big 12 season on Dec. 29 against Kansas State at Hilton Coliseum. In that game, the Cyclones went to the free throw 37 times and converted 25 times, which equals to 67.6 percent.

The next game, at home against Texas, Iowa State went to the line only nine times, but converted seven times which gave the Cyclones a 77.8 percent from the free throw line.

Prohm said after the Texas game that the team needed to get back to the line more often for Iowa State to have a chance of winning.

The team heard his call because the Cyclone went to the line 30 times tonight against Oklahoma State and made 25 of the shots, which came out to 83.3 percent. Iowa State needs those types of numbers from the free throw line to compete game in and game out during the Big 12 season.

Donovan Jackson and Nick Weiler-Babb hot, Lindell Wigginton not

Donovan Jackson was the hot hand for Iowa State early in the ball game. He hit his first 3-pointer half way into the first half and there was no looking back for the senior guard.

Jackson ended the first half with 15 points and four 3-pointers to lead the Cyclones. That hot hand didn’t fade away in the second half either as he scored another 13 points and two 3-pointers.

He ended the night with a career-high 30 points and shot 8-for-12 from the field and 6-for-8 from behind the arc. He was also 8-for-9 on the free throw line.

Jackson was able to get those points from the help of Nick Weiler-Babb. The redshirt junior guard was effective in three different categories tonight. He shot 4-for-8 from the field and scored 12 points on top of dishing out 11 assists.

Weiler-Babb has been close to attaining his first triple-double of the season over the past couple of months, but has always come up short. Tonight, he didn’t get it, but was only one rebound shy of the triple-double with nine rebounds.

Even though Jackson and Weiler-Babb did their parts for the evening, Iowa State was missing the young star once again. Freshman guard Lindell Wigginton didn’t show his usual self tonight with nine points and seven rebounds, while fouling out of the game with 1:21 left in the second half.

Iowa State had to play without Wigginton for almost six and a half minutes. Last game, against Texas on Monday night, Wigginton finished the game with four points and nine rebounds.

Iowa State has seen two different types of Wigginton. A freshman that is in the background and isn’t scoring his usual average or a freshman that is scoring 23 points against Kansas State to open up the Big 12 season.

Before, coach Steve Prohm wanted consistency from not only Wigginton, but all his players. It seems like that needs to be a focal point for Wigginton in upcoming games.