The seniors on Bill Fennelly’s basketball team have a pretty high standard to live up to.

Yet seniors Nikki Moody and Brynn Williamson proved on Sunday that they could measure up to his expectations in the Cyclones 74-64 win over Stony Brook.

Moody finished the game with career high 24 points, leading the team. The Dallas native also came up big at the end of the game, hitting a three pointer and converting an and-one three point play to extend the Cyclones lead.

“We just kept shooting,” Moody said. “We talk about it in practice all the time. They’re going to fall, so we just keep shooting.”

Sunday’s matchup was Moody’s sixth career 20-point game, and her fourth game this season with double-digit points.

But it wasn’t just Moody’s play that propelled the Cyclones on Sunday. With three minutes left in the game, Williamson was able to hit a three-point bucket with 3:50 left in the game, giving Iowa State their largest lead of the day.

However, Williamson had struggled earlier in the game. Stony Brook guarded Williamson tight through the whole game, only letting her attempt five total shots.

“This is the first time that we saw someone absolutely commit,” Fennelly said. “They committed to face guarding her. It was a great idea because we haven’t proven with some other kids to score.”

And even though Williamson was shut down offensively for most of the game, her teammates still believed that she could make that 3-point shot.

“She’s one of the best shooters on the team,” Moody said. “They knew that, so they face guarded her the entire game. It kind of took her out of what we wanted her to do so we had to move the ball a little bit more, but Brynn will step up and hit shots, and we know that.”

As a senior on the team, both Williamson and Moody seem to be falling into place with Fennelly’s system and being the leaders that he wants them to be, even in games when they might not play as well as they could.

“That’s what seniors are supposed to do,” Fennelly said. “We tell our kids ‘never be surprised when your open. You might get one chance to hit a big shot,’ and to her credit, she hit it and I think she got fouled too.”

And seniors Nikki Moody and Brynn Williamson proved on Sunday that they could do just that in the Cyclones 74-64 win over Stony Brook.

Moody finished the game with career high 24 points, leading the team. The Dallas native also came up big at the end of the game, hitting a three pointer and converting an and-one three point play to extend the Cyclones lead.

“We just kept shooting,” Moody said. “We talk about it in practice all the time. They’re going to fall, so we just keep shooting.”

Sunday’s matchup was Moody’s sixth career 20-point game, and her fourth game this season with double-digit points.

But it wasn’t just Moody’s play that propelled the Cyclones on Sunday. With three minutes left in the game, Williamson was able to hit a three-point bucket with 3:50 left in the game, giving Iowa State their largest lead of the day.

However, Williamson had struggled earlier in the game. Stony Brook guarded Williamson tight through the whole game, only letting her attempt five total shots.

“This is the first time that we saw someone absolutely commit,” Fennelly said. “They committed to face guarding her. It was a great idea because we haven’t proven with some other kids to score.”

And even though Williamson was shut down offensively for most of the game, her teammates still believed that she could make that 3-point shot.

“She’s one of the best shooters on the team,” Moody said. “They knew that, so they face guarded her the entire game. It kind of took her out of what we wanted her to do so we had to move the ball a little bit more, but Brynn will step up and hit shots, and we know that.”

As a senior on the team, both Williamson and Moody seem to be falling into place with Fennelly’s system and being the leaders that he wants them to be, even in games when they might not play as well as they could.

“That’s what seniors are supposed to do,” Fennelly said. “We tell our kids ‘never be surprised when your open. You might get one chance to hit a big shot,’ and to her credit, she hit it and I think she got fouled too.”