Iowa State’s basketball team and its thousands of fans who descended on Kansas City this week for the Big 12 Tournament will leave town with the school’s fourth title in six postseasons.
The No. 5 seed Cyclones, who entered the tournament on a three-game losing streak — and losses in five of their last six regular-season conference games — upended No. 3 seed Kansas, 78-66, in Saturday’s title game at the Sprint Center.
Lindell Wigginton scored 17 points, Marial Shayok 15, Michael Jacobson 14 and Tyrese Haliburton added 11 as ISU (23-11) knocked off the defending tourney champion Jayhawks (25-9), who fell to 8-3 since going to a four freshman-one junior lineup on Feb.