Instant Recap: Oklahoma State Dominates No. 19 Iowa State 86-58

The Cowgirls took down the nation’s leading scorer with a balanced offensive attack and swarming team defense.

Oklahoma State defeated No. 19 Iowa State 86-58, earning its first ranked win of the season while Stailee Heard recorded her first career triple double. Things are good in Cowgirl country.

The Cowgirls took a minute to get going offensively. But once their shots started falling, they didn’t look back.

The Cowgirls started 3-of-5 from the field before missing 10-straight field goal attempts. But they were exerting energy on the defensive end from wire to wire, so when the shots started falling again, it got out of hand quick. The first to fall was a spot up 3 from Amari Whiting with less than two minutes to go in the first quarter. OSU took a 13-8 lead into the second, and that’s when they ran away with it.

20-3 run for the Cowgirls!

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Micah Gray scored 12 of her 15 points in the second quarter, going 3-for-3 from 3. That helped the Cowgirls lead by as much as 24 and take a 43-21 lead into the break. The Cowgirls finished the half on a 23-7 run.

The third quarter belonged to Hayleigh Timmer, who dropped 10 points in seven minutes. She finished with 16. The Cowgirls went on a 10-0 run late in the third to balloon that lead to 31 heading into the final frame.

Group effort to secure the 3⃣

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The only real drama in the fourth quarter was whether or not Stailee Heard would get her 10th assist. She did, by the way.

First triple double for @StaileeHeard32 and third in school history 🚨

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Heard logged her first career triple double (18 points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists) and the third in Oklahoma State history. The Cowgirls didn’t necessarily need her to fill it up (she still did), but she was an active defender and a ball sponge. She had four rebounds in the first four minutes of the game and finished with a career-high 17 rebounds.

Iowa State’s Audi Crooks has been the nation’s leading scorer the last two seasons, but she is without the Cyclones’ second-leading scorer Addy Brown who is out indefinitely with a lower body injury. That’s allowed teams to crowd Crooks in the paint and deny her the ball. The Cowgirls executed that strategy as well as anyone. Crook rarely saw any free paint, was constantly swarmed and denied. She finished with a season-low 15 points on 6-of-14 shooting.

Despite the help, Cowgirl bigs Achol Akot and Praise Egharevba showed out defensively when each got their time covering the All-American. Akot added nine points and six boards and didn’t get whistled for her first foul until the fourth quarter.

OSU out-rebounded Iowa State 42-32 and 15-12 on the offensive glass. They bullied the Cyclones into 17 turnovers which resulted in 16 points and ran them death with a 22-3 advantage in fast-break points.

The Cowgirls also took advantage of the missing Cyclones and Iowa State’s subsequent 2-3 zone. OSU went 14-for-37 from deep with five different Cowgirls making multiple 3s. It just goes to show how deep this team is with offensive talent. Four Cowgirls scored in double digits led by Heard’s 18. Timmer had 16 on 11 shots. Gray had her 15, all in the first half. Lena Girardi was a spark plug in her second game back from injury, dropping 11 points while going 3-for-7 from deep in just 14 minutes.

With their third straight win, the Cowgirls improve to 16-4 and 5-2 in Big 12 play. OSU is now one full game out of a tie for first place in the conference standings. For their efforts, the Cowgirls will the week off before heading to Colorado to face the Buffaloes at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25. OSU began its current winning streak beating Colorado in Stillwater 63-56 on Jan. 11.