STANFORD, Calif. – The season has been filled with surprises for the Iowa State girls’s basketball crew. The Cyclones, who entered the 2023-24 marketing campaign with a ton of potential however not a lot expertise, weren’t even anticipated to be within the NCAA Event this season.
Seven seed Iowa State delivered one other stunner Friday evening, storming again from a 20-point deficit and beating Maryland 93-86 within the first spherical of the NCAA Event at Maples Pavilion. It was the second-largest comeback in NCAA girls’s basketball event historical past.
Audi Crooks poured in a career-high 40 factors for the Cyclones, who superior to Sunday’s second-round sport.
Crooks, who set an Iowa State NCAA Event single-game report for subject targets (18), tallied the fourth 40-point sport in Iowa State historical past. She got here up simply wanting Tonya Burns’ single-game report of 42 factors.
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Iowa State wanted nearly each single a type of factors because the Cyclones clawed out of an enormous halftime deficit to take down a perennial powerhouse program in Maryland. Iowa State trailed for many of the first half and was in bother from the beginning.
Maryland put collectively a near-perfect first quarter that ended with the Terrapins matching a season-high for factors in 1 / 4 (33) and constructing a 13-point lead. The Terrapins poured it on from there. They went on a 10-0 run within the second quarter and constructed a 48-29 lead on a layup by Jakia Brown-Turner.
Maryland’s Allie Kubek, who entered the sport averaging simply 8.4 factors per sport, eclipsed that by halftime. Kubek tallied 19 factors within the first two quarters on 6-of-6 taking pictures from the sector, together with 5-of-5 from 3-point vary to assist Maryland take a commanding 52-36 lead into halftime. Maryland’s largest lead was 50-30 with about 90 seconds left within the first half.
Iowa State was removed from carried out, although.
The Cyclones, who battled again from a number of double-digit deficits in the course of the common season, made one other comeback Friday. It started with a 10-0 run within the third quarter to tie it at 59-all.
Iowa State briefly took a 62-61 lead on an and-one from Crooks. Maryland and Iowa State had been then deadlocked in a 66-66 tie heading into the fourth quarter.
Crooks had 4 factors in a 7-0 run that gave Iowa State a 78-72 lead. Again-to-back baskets by Crooks pushed the result in 89-82.
Crooks obtained loads of different assist. Emily Ryan scored 18 factors and added 14 assists for the Cyclones. Joens completed with 12 factors.