It was a great day for the Heise family yesterday.
Hours after Taylor Heise scored one of the five goals in the U.S. women's hockey team's victory over Sweden in the Olympic semifinal in Milan, Nate Heise helped lift the Iowa State men's basketball team over Houston in a matchup of teams with Final Four aspirations.
The meeting between the No. 2 Cougars and the No. 6 Cyclones was just the third game this season between teams ranked in the top six of the AP poll.
The fans in Ames, Iowa were amped up from the very beginning and created an excellent atmosphere for a massive game. It lived up to the hype, too. The first half was a wild back-and-forth affair that featured six ties and five lead changes. Houston began to pull away in the second half, eventually stretching its lead to 10 points on a Kingston Flemings three-pointer with 7:09 left to play.
But then Iowa State staged a furious comeback, finishing the game on a 17–4 run. Houston finished the game shooting 2-for-6 from the floor in the final seven minutes, while the Cyclones knocked down six of their seven field goal attempts. (As Kevin Sweeney explains, there was also a controversial call in the middle of Iowa State's run that helped tilt the game in the Cyclones' favor and highlighted an issue with college basketball's challenge process.)
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