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Experience won out in Thursday's penultimate March Madness contest, as No. 5 Iowa State held off No. 12 Nevada by a score of 84-73 in a Midwest regional contest at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee.
Both teams came into this game red-hot. Iowa State had won nine of it's last 10 games, including the Big 12 championship, and Nevada was working on a nine-contest winning streak, including a blistering run to the Mountain West Conference championship.
The Cyclones, who have made the NCAA tournament seven years running, were the more polished team from start to finish, knocking down 8-of-19 from three-point range and getting plenty of easy buckets at the rim throughout.