Men's Basketball Downs Iowa State on the Road
6/21/1999 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
February 8, 1999
By CHUCK SCHOFFNER
AP Sports Writer
AMES, Iowa (AP) - Freshman Clarence Gilbert scored a season-high 13 points in his first start and led an early 3-point shooting barrage that sent Missouri to a 77-61 victory over Iowa State on Monday night.
Missouri (17-5 overall, 8-3 Big 12), which fell out of The Associated Press poll earlier in the day, looked like a team bent on getting back in while winning at Iowa State for the first time since 1995.
The Tigers hit six straight 3-pointers and 7-of-11 shots overall in racing to a 21-6 lead less than seven minutes into the game and Iowa State (13-11, 4-7) never recovered. For the game, Missouri matched its season high with 11 3-pointers in 20 attempts.
John Woods led Missouri with 16 points, including four 3-pointers, and Keyon Dooling scored 14. The points from Gilbert were a bonus because he had been averaging just 4.2 per game with a previous high of 12 and was shooting only 28 percent from 3-point range.
But he nailed three 3-pointers in the first 4:55 to set the tone. At one point, Missouri had made all six of its 3-point shots and missed all four of its shots from inside the arc.
Once Missouri had loosened Iowa State's defense with outside shooting, the Tigers went inside to Albert White and 6-foot-11, 335-pound Monte Hardge. White finished with 10 points and Hardge capped an 8-0 run with two baskets to make it 33-13. The Tigers led 38-19 at the half.
Iowa State's Marcus Fizer, the Big 12's leading scorer with an 18.7 average, missed all six of his first-half shots and finished with 14 points on 5-for-17 shooting. Martin Rancik added 10 points for the Cyclones, who shot only 26 percent in the opening half.
Iowa State drew to 49-34 on Paris Corner's 3-pointer with 14:17 left, but Missouri quickly squashed any hopes the Cyclones had of a comeback. Woods hit a 3-pointer to start another 8-0 run that made it 56-34 and the Tigers led by as many as 23.
