Feb. 1, 2005
Box Score
By CHUCK SCHOFFNER
AP Sports Writer
AMES, Iowa (AP) - Freshman Rahshon Clark scored 15 of his season-high 19 points during a 19-0 game-turning run in the first half, leading Iowa State to a 77-51 victory over Baylor on Tuesday night.
Curtis Stinson added 15 points and Tasheed Carr 11 for the Cyclones (10-8, 2-5 Big 12), who followed up their upset of No. 14 Oklahoma with an impressive performance. After a slow start, they ran with impunity, shot 52.5 percent, forced 23 turnovers and even made five 3-pointers.
With a two-game winning streak, Iowa State has consecutive victories for the first time since finishing December with four straight wins.
Baylor (9-9, 1-6), which has only six scholarship players, has lost four straight and five of its last six after a promising start under second-year coach Scott Drew. Patrick Fields led Baylor with 16 points and was his team's only player in double figures.
Aaron Bruce, coming off a 27-point outing against Texas A&M, scored only nine on 3-for-7 shooting. The 6-foot-3 freshman had been averaging 17.2.
Clark, who came in with a 5.1 scoring average, topped his previous best of 14 points during the big run that blew the game open, stretching the lead from 18-17 to 37-17. He made all seven of his shots in that stretch - a 3-pointer, three layups in transition, a dunk, a tip-in and a putback on Will Blalock's airball.
Iowa State needed almost 12 minutes to score its first 18 points, then ran off 19 in less than 6 minutes.
Baylor went the final 7:32 of the half without a field goal, getting only a solitary free throw from Tommy Swanson, and never recovered.
Damion Staple scored eight of his 10 points early in the second half to help the Cyclones build the lead to 54-31. Clark's steal and dunk and Carr's free throw made it 63-33, and it was 71-38 after Stinson's 3-pointer with 5:09 to play.
Not long after that, ISU coach Wayne Morgan cleared his bench.
Iowa State finished 5-for-15 on 3-pointers, a respectable effort for a team that's last in the Big 12 in 3-point accuracy. The Cyclones had made only four 3-pointers in their previous three games combined.
