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Pressed into defeat
Mountaineers use full-court pressure to beat Cyclones By Ryan.Young @iowastatedaily.com
Midway through the first half, the game was rolling just like many expected — if not more so. No. 13 Iowa State (16-6 overall, 5-4 Big 12) jumped ahead of No. 14 West Virginia (18-4 overall, 7-2 Big 12) early Tuesday night at Hilton Coliseum, going on a quick 10-4 run. The Cyclones would follow that with a 15-4 run, powered in part by a highlight-reel dunk by forward Deonte Burton. Just more than 10 minutes into the game, the Cyclones had built up a 15-point lead. There was no need to worry. It was going according to plan. Yet by the time they left the court, things were entirely different. West Virginia had rallied back, beating Iowa State, 81-76. “This was a tough loss, a frustrating loss,” said ISU coach Steve Prohm. “We played really well, especially in the first half. Foul trouble negated a lot of good things. They figured out how to get back, and we didn’t close the game well. We’ve got to get better than this.” Tuesday’s game mirrored that of the Texas A&M loss last Saturday, when the Cyclones were in control of the game with about four minutes to play, but couldn’t find a way to get the win. The Cyclones had put together an 8-0 run with about four
minutes left against the Mountaineers and seemed to have the game in their hands. But it was far from over. West Virginia didn’t go away, tying the game with just under two minutes to go. From there, the Mountaineers would outlast the Cyclones, picking up two key stops and winning the late-game, free-throw battle. It was over — West Virginia handed Iowa State its second home loss of the season and second loss in a row. “We just got out-toughed,” said forward Georges Niang. “When it came down to making plays and making toughness plays, they just out-toughed us.” Perhaps the biggest difference for the Mountaineers at the end of the game was their fullcourt pressure. Iowa State had no problems breaking WVU coach Bob Huggins’ trademark press early in the game, but by the end, it was too much for the Cyclones to handle. “I think they just sped us up the whole game and got us out of what we wanted to do,” said point guard Monté Morris. “They caused us to [create] a lot of turnovers that led to buckets on the other end. They just got us out of sync tonight. You’ve got to give those guys credit.” The pressure forced 16 team turnovers for the Cyclones, including eight from Niang himself. That, he said, isn’t something that he can let happen again, and he’s taking full responsibility for it. “It starts with me,” Niang said. “Turning the ball over eight times, that’s just unacceptable.
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Redshirt senior forward Abdel Nader catches the ball from a teammate during the game against West Virginia on Tuesday. Nader scored 19 points and recorded five rebounds in the 81-76 ISU loss.
Local experts analyze caucus Dem race close; Rubio strong By Alex.Hanson @iowastatedaily.com Now that the results are official — Ted Cruz is the winner of the Republican Caucus and Hillary Clinton narrowly is the winner of the Democratic Caucus — Iowa State political experts are weighing in on the race and its impact through the next primary states. Mack Shelley, university professor of political science, and Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center took part in a forum Tuesday afternoon at the Memorial Union, where they offered their perspective on several different aspects of the race. David Andersen, assistant professor of political science, moderated the forum while offering a few comments. Razor thin margin in the Democratic race The Republican race was called early and several percentage points separated winner Cruz
and second place finisher Donald Trump. On the Democratic side, only a few single delegates separated Clinton and Bernie Sanders. As of noon Tuesday, the Iowa Democratic Party said 100 percent of precincts had been counted and Clinton held a slim lead with 700.59 state delegate equivalents. Sanders had 696.82. “The polling on the Democratic side was all over the place,” Bystrom said. “The polling was telling us it was going to be a very close race and it turned out to be a very close race.” Bystrom said she had predicted the race in media interviews over past few days, but she thought it would be a few points between Clinton and Sanders. Martin O’Malley, who decided to drop out of the Democratic race, failed to meet the 15 percent viability in most precincts. He ended up with 7.61 state delegate equivalents. Rubio has momentum after strong finish Another noteworthy finish was Marco Rubio’s performance on the Republican side. Rubio, currently a senator from Florida, came within just one point of Trump in
the final results — much higher than polling showed him coming into the race. “I think, clearly, Rubio has a lot of momentum coming out of this,” Shelley said. “He finished relatively strong in third — and that does not help Trump at all.” Rubio took criticism early on from Iowans over not spending enough time in the state, but he did make a surge in the state toward the end with lots of campaign events across the state. “I think Rubio’s success and Cruz’s success — and Trump’s failure — can attest to the role of boots on the ground,” Shelley said. “Organization, organization, organization — classic retail politics — sort of won out over Trump’s use of mass media and huge events.” Bystrom noted that Rubio grabbed a lot of support among voters who had not made up their mind completely going into the final days. Several entrance polls conducted by news organizations showed Rubio getting upward of a third of undecided votes leading into the night.
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Clinton officially declared winner Virtual tie ends in Clinton victory
At the forum, Mack Shelley said the recent poll conducted by Iowa State University and WHO-HD correctly predicted Cruz as the winner, despite the highly-respected Des Moines Register/ Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll predicting Trump would win. The numbers were slightly off, but Cruz, who ended up with 28 percent of the vote on Monday night, was polling at 25.8 percent — 7 percent ahead of Trump, who ended up finishing 4 percent behind in Iowa. Carson came in third in the poll and Rubio was forth. Official results show those two flipped, with Rubio in third and Carson in fourth.
Coin tosses decide some delegates In some precincts, unawarded delegates at the county level were given to candidates based on a coin toss. Josh Levitt, press secretary of the Iowa Democratic Party, said the “game of chance” method is not anything new in Democratic caucuses, but this year, the state party was able to track the number because of a new app being used to report results from Microsoft. Typically, the process is used in precincts that have an equal number of supporters, but have an odd number of delegates to award. For example, if 100 Sanders supporters and 100 Clinton supporters showed up to a site with five delegates, the coin flip would be used to award the additional delegate after two were awarded to both sides. In Ames 2-4, there was a dispute over 60 votes that disappeared. Clinton won a coin toss and was awarded the additional delegate, The Des Moines Register reported. Levitt also made it clear that the coin tosses do not award state delegates, instead county delegates — only a few coin tosses statewide could not tip the results, even with the close margin in the 2016 caucus.
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By Alex.Hanson @iowastatedaily.com Hillary Clinton has officially been declared the winner of Monday’s Iowa Democratic Caucus — the closest Caucus in the party’s history. While many newspapers, including the Daily, sent papers to the press without declaring a winner, and many news networks signed off, the Iowa Democratic Party sent out a release to reporters early Tuesday morning about 2:30 a.m. declaring that Clinton was the winner by just four state delegate equivelants and all but one precinct reporting. Just after noon Tuesday, the party reported that the final precinct in Des Moines had been counted and Clinton led Sanders by just 3.77 delegates. Martin O’Malley, who suspended his cam-
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Hillary Clinton waves to supporters at Drake University on Monday.
paign on Monday night, had 7.61; uncommitted voters had 0.46, The Sanders campaign expressed doubt in the results early Tuesday, saying several precincts had questionable results and some precincts were not properly staffed. Democratic Party officials
in Iowa said the staffing complaint was not accurate, and that results are final as of Tuesday afternoon. While the Republican race was called shortly before 9:30 p.m., a few dozen Democratic precincts
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Voters pack Iowa caucus locations By Alex.Hanson @iowastatedaily.com Republicans saw massive turnout statewide and in Story County, breaking their 2012 record while Democrats also
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saw significant participation in Monday’s Iowa Caucus. On the Republican side, reports early on during the caucus suggested high turnout. Around 180,000 Republicans turned out, according to a tally of votes from the Republican Party of Iowa. In Story County, several Republican precincts with a
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