Big comebacks, down-to-the-wire finishes highlight last two women’s basketball games
Senior guard Nikki Moody goes in for a layup as she’s fouled during Iowa State’s matchup with Texas on Jan. 10. Moody scored 17 points with seven assists, helping Iowa State to its first win over an AP top-10 team since Feb. 4, 2009. Iowa State defeated the Longhorns 59-57.
January 10, 2015
Saying the past two games for the ISU women’s basketball team have been a little crazy is an understatement. The Cyclones have been on both the winning and losing ends of crazy comebacks and games that have gone down to the wire.
Against TCU, the Cyclones built a 44-21 halftime lead before everything went wrong for Iowa State and everything went right for the Horned Frogs.
TCU put up 65 second-half points and stole a game that the Cyclones appeared to have locked up. The Horned Frogs made a layup with less than two seconds to go and sealed a crazy comeback win with a score of 86-84.
The Cyclones were on the other side of the comeback against No. 3 Texas. Iowa State was down 18 points at one point in the first half and went into the locker room down 13 at the half.
The Cyclones shot only 25.9 percent in the first half. The second half was a different story, as the Cyclones offense got going and the defense clamped down on the Longhorns.
Iowa State tied it up and eventually pushed ahead to a seven-point lead. But the unusual events didn’t stop. Over the final eight minutes of the game, the Cyclones went on a severe scoring drought and only scored two points.
Those two points were huge, however. They came on the eventual game-winning layup by Seanna Johnson off of a Nikki Moody assist with 19 seconds left on the clock.
