mason buckendahl smooth from the stripe....pierce wins it 58-48. alex wednesday night, iowa state beat texas tech for its first conference win of the season. tomorrow, the cyclones turn to face baylor looking for big 12 win number two. the bears roll into ames with plenty of confidence at hilton coliseum. in fact, baylor handed iowa state its last loss at home....a79-70 setback last february. on the glass, the cyclones will have their hands full. the bears are the second- best rebounding 12....iowa state is seventh... it starts in the paint as isu guns for a little payback. " it's not going to be easy baylor is very good. they've played here they've won here before so they'll be c cfident but we're confident so you know we gotta do a great job of attacking the zone and we gotta do a great job of obviously defending the rebound." " but i've never beat baylor and that's something i think about. i played pretty fairly well against them when we have played them. but we've never beat them so that's a lot of motivation for me personally and then protect

mason buckendahl smooth from the stripe....pierce wins it 58-48. alex top-ranked unity christian is a perennial power in siouxland. the defending state champs are off to a 9-0 start with no signs of slowing down. today, the knights made the trip to sioux city for the cnos classic. and they had a challenge over a a the tyson....4a's fourteenth nked tete....sioux city west. first q uarter....anna kiel finds some open space under the hoop and makes the wolverines pay....11-2 knights..... and its kiel again in the second quarter....slashin g to the rack and finishing....unity up by 11....... but west would settle in......carly knutson- kobald.........gets the off balance runner to fall.......west still hanging around.... and they wouyld get physical on the low blocl....darrien ford.....power basketball for the deuce....... then its josie blankespoor on the other end...crashing the west 58-30 to stay perfect. the sixth-ranked south sioux girls off to a 9-1 start.....taking on east... opening minutes....augusta tramer.........collec ts the steal and cash