Expectations for Iowa State’s upcoming game against No. 2 Baylor are tempered.

Each of Baylor’s past three games have been against ranked teams. It went 3-0 in that stretch with an average margin of victory of more than 27 points.

The only team to have knocked off Baylor (21-1, 10-0 Big 12) this year is undefeated No. 1 UConn.

When Baylor comes to Hilton Coliseum at 7 p.m. Wednesday, the Cyclones will try to end Baylor’s 19-game winning streak.

At his weekly press conference Monday, coach Bill Fennelly said he’s fully aware of how good Baylor is.

“It is what it is,” Fennelly said. “They’re playing at a very high level. We’ll get two good days of practice in and we’ll show up Wednesday night and compete the best we can. We understand what’s in front of us.”

This will be Iowa State’s (12-9, 3-7 Big 12) second crack at knocking off Baylor. In the first game, Iowa State’s defense fought to the very end. The Cyclones were able to hold Baylor to just 68 points, Baylor’s second lowest scoring total this season.

“I thought we did a pretty good job for the most part of stopping transition,” Fennelly said. “That’s the No. 1 thing. No. 2, you gotta rebound. Obviously they outrebounded us a lot, but we did a decent job of not giving them a ton of second-chance points.”

Baylor had just 14 second-chance points against Iowa State and only managed eight fast-break points.

Because of its size advantage — Baylor’s starting forward, Kalani Brown, is four inches taller than Iowa State’s tallest player — Baylor was able to dominate down low, gaining a 52-10 advantage in points in the paint.

“They do such a good job of running their stuff and they’re just so big,” Fennelly said.

For Iowa State, the focus is on improving and staying in the fight for the whole game.

“For us, we gotta play at our pace and not their pace,” Seanna Johnson said. “They’re a team that likes to get up and down the floor really quick, so I think, like we did last time, just slow it down.”

In the first matchup, only two Cyclones scored more than five points. Bridget Carleton scored 17 on 6-for-14 shooting, while Jadda Buckley added 15 points on 5-for-13 shooting.

“They’re big, but it helps that we already played them once this year, so we kinda know what to expect going into it,” Buckley said. “Having that one game under our belt is going to be nice going into practice because our scout team can’t exactly simulate them to their size and their abilities.”

This Baylor team is probably one of the best teams Baylor has had, Fennelly said. That includes their 2012 national championship team. Because of that, Fennelly said, Iowa State can’t worry about matching up with Baylor’s personnel.

“Lauren Cox was the No. 1 high school player in the country, [and she’s] coming off the bench,” Fennelly said. “You can’t worry about personnel as much as you do what you can control.”