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We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. But in Hield they have a talent that few teams can match, and even fewer can manage to slow down.Iowa State made its charge in the second half, but the combination of Hield and a high turnover count proved to be too much to overcome. It’s how basketball is supposed to be played.In the second half, however, the Cyclones made the adjustment to try and keep the ball on one side of the floor. SB Nation Cyclones Blog. I explained this in detail yesterday (He’s also the only player since the 1994-95 season to shoot at least eight threes per game and make more than 52.0 percent of those threes. 3 Oklahoma remains undefeatedPLAYER OF THE YEAR POWER RANKINGS: Where do we slot Buddy Hield now?WEEKLY AWARDS: Tyler Ulis shines while Harvard makes a statementThrowback look: seniors lead way to nation’s top-tier teamsAbdel Nader’s jumper gives No.

Kansas jumped out to a 24-14 lead in the first 10 minutes and more or less kept that margin intact through the first TV timeout of the second half. So saying that this is Hield’s award to lose at this point isn’t a shot at anyone else in the field, because he’s one shooting slump away from looking relatively mortal, and shooting slumps can happen to the best of them. You can follow along with the countdown on the CBT Facebook page NBC Sports Player of the Year Power RankingsNo. In each of Oklahoma’s last four losses they shot no better than 35.7 percent from three (at Texas), so what would shooting below 20 percent against a team with the offensive weapons that Iowa State lead to? 6 Ben Simmons, LSU Tigers (19.6 points, 12.6 boards, 5.1 assists, 1.8…NBC Sports Player of the Year Power RankingsNo. Niang will start Friday against the Spurs, Eric Walden of The Salt Lake Tribune reports. That would usually lock Valentine in as the hands-down favorite to win, at the very least, the Big Ten Player of the Year award, except Jarrod Uthoff is currently averaging 2.5 blocks and shooting 46.4 percent from three, something that no one has done (while averaging more than two 3PAs per game) since 1994.Should I mention that Uthoff is also averaging 18.6 points for a top five team that is currently sitting in first place in the Big Ten standings?And I haven’t even mentioned BYU’s Kyle Collinsworth, who is on pace to be the first player in that database to average at least 15 points, seven boards and seven assists.In other words, that’s a really long way of saying that Hield is not the only player in college basketball having an unbelievable season. The ball stuck in the hands of the point guards, the Jayhawks tried to go one-on-one on far too many possessions and hero-ball kicked in. But the biggest difference on this night was the fact that Iowa State was able to limit the effectiveness of Texas point guard Isaiah Taylor.Taylor scored just nine points on 3-for-14 shooting from the field, and with Morris and Niang scoring 24 points apiece the Cyclones won by the final score of 85-75.Taylor had multiple opportunities to make plays around the basket thanks to his ability to beat defenders off the bounce, but he struggled to finish. 4 Kansas, 85-72.It’s the fourth time in the last five games that Iowa State has picked off the Jayhawks.Based on the box score, it may look like the Cyclones won this thing easily, but that certainly wasn’t the case. 9 Melo Trimble, Maryland Terrapins (14.5 points, 5.4 assists, 2.9…NBC Sports Player of the Year Power RankingsNo. 5 Georges Niang, Iowa State Men's Basketball (19.3 points, 6.4 boards,… Posted by NBCSports.com's College Basketball Talk … Matt Thomas, Iowa State’s best perimeter defender, did his best to keep up with the national Player of the Year candidate and force him to make tough shots.