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(AP) -- Jamie Vanderbeken made five
3-pointers and scored a career-high 24 points Thursday night,
leading Iowa State to a 60-47 victory at struggling Virginia.

The Cyclones (12-2) won their sixth in a row, in part because
the 6-foot-11 Vanderbeken burned Virginia repeatedly from outside,
hitting 5 of 8 3-point shots. It helped that the Cavaliers couldn't
make anything. They missed 21 of their first 24 and finished 20 for
62.

Scott Christopherson added 14 points and Melvin Ejim 10 for the
Cyclones.

K.T. Harrell led Virginia (8-5) with nine points.
The Cylones led 24-15 at halftime and a basket by Mustapha
Farrakhan 17 seconds into the second half made it a seven-point
game. But Vanderbeken and Christopherson each hit two 3-pointers in
a 14-0 burst and the offensively-challenged Cavaliers never caught
up.

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