Audi Crooks had 26 points and eight rebounds, Sydney Harris added 13 and No. 8 Iowa State beat St. Thomas of Minnesota 80-47 on Thursday night. Crooks made 12 of 17 shots from the field and left the game two minutes into the fourth quarter after her layup gave the Cyclones a 27-point lead.

As the Iowa State women’s basketball team has gotten further into the non-conference portion of its schedule, things were expected to get a little tougher. But four games into the season, no one has really been able to truly test the No.

The eighth-ranked Iowa State women had little trouble staying perfect on the season Thursday night, blasting St. Thomas inside Hilton Coliseum in Ames, 80-47. Emily Ryan recorded 13 assists, which is the 11th-most in school history for a single game.