AMES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa State's Angie Welle and Lindsey Wilson
were too efficient for their own good.
Both starters played only 19 minutes Saturday as No. 7 Iowa
State beat Nebraska 89-46, Welle scoring 22 points and Wilson 17.
Coach Bill Fennelly has a rule that anyone who plays fewer than 20
minutes must do extra running at the next practice.
|  | | Iowa State's Angie Welle (32) was a model of efficiency, scoring 22 points on 8-for-11 shooting in only 19 minutes. |
Fennelly said a rule's a rule and he'll hold them to it.
"That's the first thing they looked at after the game," he
said. "They won't have to run much, though."
How could he make them? Welle, Wilson and their teammates did
little wrong in handing Nebraska its worst loss ever, putting the
game away early with a 30-3 first-half run.
Iowa State (13-1, 4-0 Big 12) made its first seven 3-point
shots, three by Erica Haugen, and had 52 points at halftime against
a team that had been allowing only 63 a game. Haugen also made five
of Iowa State's 17 steals and the Cyclones had assists on 22 of
their 27 baskets.
"Today's the kind of day that makes you want to sell
insurance," said Nebraska coach Paul Sanderford, whose team shot
29.6 percent and committed 29 turnovers. "For the first 12 to 14
minutes, they executed about as well as any team I've faced in a
long time."
Tracy Gahan added 12 points and Haugen 11 for Iowa State, which
shot 56.7 percent in the first half and finished 11-for-16 on
3-pointers. During one stretch in the opening half, Iowa State ran
off 21 straight points in less than five minutes.
"The first half we were as good as could be, at both ends,"
Fennelly said. "Obviously we made some shots and defensively, we
were active. It was just one of those games when things were going
right."
Nebraska (9-7, 1-2) led 6-2 after 3-pointers by Greichaly Cepero
and Shannon Howell, but 11 minutes went by before the Cornhuskers
made another basket and Iowa State took control with an impressive
display of passing, shooting and running its fast break.
All five starters hit a 3-pointer in a 21-0 run that made it
26-7. Welle, the Cyclones' 6-foot-4 center, started that burst with
her first 3-pointer of the season after six misses.
"Actually, we were going to do it at the beginning of the
game," Welle said. "But she was a little bit too close for
comfort for me, so I passed it. That time, I don't even remember why
I shot. After I shot, I thought, gosh, she was kind of close to me.
But I just let it go."
After Nebraska's Amanda Cleveland sank two free throws, Iowa
State came back with six more points to stretch the lead 32-9.
Nebraska missed 13 straight shots before Steph Jones finally hit
a jumper with 7:20 left in the half. Iowa State wasn't missing,
though, and two 3-pointers by Haugen and Gahan's three-point play
helped the Cyclones build a 52-18 halftime lead.
Iowa State scored the first nine points of the second half and
led by as many as 47. Coming in, Nebraska had given up 70 points
only three times. Iowa State had 70 with 15:10 left.
Jones and Casey Leonhardt led Nebraska with nine points each.
The Cornhuskers' worst loss previously was to Auburn, 80-39, on
Dec. 29, 1988.
"Before the game, our coach told us they go on streaks and we
have to be prepared for that," Nebraska's Margaret Richards said.
"I guess during that time we went into the tank and could not get
back out."
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