NCAA tournament games aren’t won with style points. The only objective is win and advance. It took a gritty, gutsy fight for the Aggie women’s basketball team to punch its ticket to the Sweet Sixteen, but they proved to be up to the task, pulling out an 82-84 victory over Iowa State in overtime. Jordan Nixon’s buzzer beater kept the Ags’ season alive, capping another outstanding performance for Nixon who led the team to another close victory to avoid an opening round upset by 15 seed Troy on Monday night.
After the Cyclones opened the scoring with a three pointer 26 seconds into the game, the Aggies would spend the next 39 minutes and 29 seconds grinding through Iowa State’s 3 point barrage to finally even the game with 5 seconds remaining.