Iowa State (5-2, 0-0 Big 12) has a busy week with three games in six days and it started tonight at Hilton Coliseum with a 94-80 win to Northern Illinois (5-4, 0-0 MAC), extending its winning streak to five games.

The first half was a back and forth game as the Huskies led at the half by two, 38-36. Northern Illinois found the paint in the first half outscoring Iowa State 24-10 in the paint.

Those baskets allowed Northern Illinois to shoot 17-for-31, or 54.8 percent, from the field compared to Iowa State’s 40 percent and going 12-for-30 from the field. The Cyclones found success from the free-throw line going 7-for-8 from the line.

Six of those attempts came from freshman Lindell Wigginton who went to the line three times in the last two minutes of the first half to keep the score even going into the second half.

Then, it became all Iowa State. It started early when the 3-pointers came out for the Cyclones. In the first three minutes of the second half, the Cyclones had three different guards shoot four 3-pointers to extend the lead to six with 16:18 left in the game.

The timeouts didn’t knock Iowa State’s rhythm as it continued to hit 3-pointers. The Cyclones went on a 20-8 run between the 16-minute and 10-minute marks. This increased the lead to 16 points.

Wigginton had a game-high 28 points along with four assists and seven rebounds. Along with Wigginton, there were three other players that scored in double digits. Cameron Lard (14 points), Donovan Jackson (24 points) and Nick Weiler-Babb (12 points) caught fire in the second half.

Weiler-Babb finished the game with a double-double, 12 points and 11 assists, and was five rebounds short from a triple-double.

Iowa State will carry this five-game winning streak and momentum into the Cy-Hawk game as the Cyclones host the Hawkeyes in Hilton Coliseum at 7 p.m. on Thursday.