Box Score The Chicago State men's basketball team dropped a 79-48 decision to No. 9 Iowa State Tuesday night at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa. The Cougars were looking to pick up back-to-back road wins for the first time since 2013-14 but the Cyclones led by as many as 18 in the first half and CSU battled back to cut the lead to nine on two occasions but an 11-0 second-half ISU run was too much to overcome.
Freshman
Jahsean Corbett led the Cougars with 14 points.
Coreyoun Rushin was the only other CSU player in double figures with 11. Corbett and Rushin also led the team in rebounds with 11. The game also marks the first this season Cougars leading scorer,
Brandon Betson, was held below double digits in scoring. He finished with six.
The Cougars traded hoops with the Cyclones early as Teddy Bayi Ba Mendeng scored the first four CSU points, but with the score tied 4-4, Iowa State went on an 18-2 run over the next five minutes to leave Chicago State playing catch uptake rest of the way.
Carlo Marble made a layup to stop the scoreless streak and
Brandon Betson converted an "and 1" opportunity to cut the margin to 14, 24-10. Iowa State scored the next four to push the advantage to 18 points before the Cougars mounted a modest 11-2 run to cut the ISU lead to 11, 30-21 with just over three minutes remaining in the first half.
Coreyoun Rushin made a pair of free throws to start the run,
Dominique Alexander made a three and two free throws, followed by a Rushin layup and a
Jahsean Corbett bucket.
Iowa State ended the first half with a 4-2 run and an 11-point advantage and the halftime score of 34-23.
The Cyclones came out of the locker room after halftime and went on a 13-5 run to push the lead to 19, 47-28, with 14:36 remaining in the game. Following a pair of Corbett free throws and made jumper, the Cyclones put the game out of reach with an 11-0 run to extend ISU's lead to its largest of the game, 29 points, 61-32.
Trailing by 31, ISU's largest lead of the game, the Cougars went on an 8-0 run on the strength of a Rushin dunk, jumper and free throw and a Betson three.
The Cougars will wrap up the non-conference portion of their schedule with a rescheduled at Drake in Des Moines on Wednesday, Dec. 22 at 5 p.m. at the Knapp Center. The two teams were scheduled to play Sunday, Dec. 19 but the contest was postponed due to health and safety protocols.
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Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title and made an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. In 2021, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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