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Iowa State University Athletics
Cyclones Play Host to Cleveland State and Northern Colorado in Back-to-Back Games
11.18.2004 | Women's Basketball
Iowa State Cyclone Basketball
Nov. 21 vs. Cleveland State Vikings, 2:30 p.m.
Nov. 22 vs. Northern Colorado Bears, 7 p.m.
Hilton Coliseum (14,092) ? Ames, Iowa
On the Air
Iowa State's games against Cleveland State and Northern Colorado will be broadcast live on 1430 KASI and the Cyclone Radio Network ... every game is broadcast live and free of charge by Yahoo! on the internet (www.cyclones.com).
Quickly ...
Iowa State opens its 32nd season with back-to-back home games on Sunday and Monday ... the Cyclones face Cleveland State in their season opener for the second consecutive year, winning a 73-51 decision in Cleveland last season ... ISU is 9-0 in season openers during Bill Fennelly's tenure (3-0 home, 5-0 road, 2-0 neutral) and 23-8 in season openers all-time (7-3 at home).
About the Cyclones
Iowa State saw both its inside and outside games produce offensively in the Cyclones' two exhibition games ... Katie Robinette had 22 points in the first half against William Penn, hitting 9-of-13 from the floor while adding seven boards ... the senior forward finished with 26 points and 10 rebounds in just 20 minutes of action in ISU's 104-45 win over the Lady Statesmen ... Iowa State utilized its perimeter game against Northwest Missouri State, hitting 11 3-pointers en route to an 89-48 win ... sophomore Megan Ronhovde and senior Mary Fox had four 3-pointers each, while senior Anne O'Neil drained 3-of-4 from behind the arc ... ISU averaged 96.5 points in its two exhibition games, shooting 46.3 percent from the floor and 32.8 percent from behind the arc ... the Cyclones pulled down 107 rebounds in the two contests, outrebounding their opponents by an average of 53.5-35.5.
About the Vikings
Cleveland State travels to Iowa State after its regular-season opener against Virginia Friday night at home ... the Vikings played one exhibition game, dropping a 78-75 decision to the Ohio Girls Basketball Report (OGBR) Legends ... CSU junior guard Erin Martin led all scorers with 22 points, while senior center Mandy Sichting and freshman guard Brittany Korth had 10 rebounds each ... freshman forward Robyn Hoying added 16 points for Cleveland State ... CSU, which got 36 points from its bench, shot 44.4 percent in the game, sinking 27.8 percent from behind the arc (5-of-18) ... Cleveland State outrebounded OGBR 46-30, but turned the ball over 23 times to give the Legends 24 points off turnovers ... the Vikings were voted seventh in the Horizon League's preseason poll ... CSU returns two starters and four seniors to a squad that set a school record for league victories last season with a 9-7 conference slate.
About the Bears
Northern Colorado travels to Ames for its third game in four days ... the Bears played at Nebraska Friday and at Drake Sunday ... UNC has one exhibition game under its belt, topping Colorado State-Pueblo 78-59 Nov. 13 ... four Bears recorded double-digit scoring, led by sophomores Heather Barbour (16) and Kendra Lambrecht (15) ... junior Cindy McCarroll had 11 points for UNC, while sophomore center Danielle Hagen recorded a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds ... Northern Colorado shot 43.1 percent in the game, sinking 10-of-27 3-pointers for 37 percent accuracy ... the Bears narrowly edged CSU-Pueblo 44-40 on the boards and limited the Thunderwolves to 33.3 percent shooting.
The Series
The Cyclones traveled to Cleveland State last season for the only game of the series ... Iowa State earned a 73-51 win at CSU in Cyclone Mary Fox's homecoming ... ISU and Northern Colorado meet for the first time ... ISU head coach Bill Fennelly is 6-0 vs. Cleveland State in his career and owns an all-time record of 25-3 against Horizon League teams.
Looking Back at 2003-04
Iowa State made its first-ever appearance in the Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT), hosting four consecutive postseason games ... ISU advanced to the WNIT Final Four for the first time in school history ... senior guard Erica Junod earned WNIT all-tournament honors ... she posted a team-high 15 points, seven rebounds and four assists in the Cyclones' semifinal loss to UNLV ... she was just the fourth women's basketball player in school history to earn all-tournament recognition in a national postseason tournament ... the Cyclones' quarterfinal game against Saint Joseph's was played in front of a capacity crowd of 14,092 in Hilton Coliseum, ISU's first-ever women's basketball sell-out ... Iowa State played 18 home games, the most in school history ... March 28 was the lastest game played by an ISU women's basketball team (March 25 vs. Penn State, 2000 NCAA Midwest Regional) ... Iowa State's WNIT semifinal game marked the sixth time ISU played 33 games in a season, matching the school record ... the Cyclones earned their seventh postseason berth overall, having played in the NCAA Tournament for six straight seasons from 1997-2002 ... head coach Bill Fennelly used 14 different starting lineups last season ... no Cyclone started every game ... the Cyclones shot a league-best and school-record 75.8 percent from the free-throw line ... the previous best season percentage in program history was 74.0 percent, recorded in 2000-01 ... Anne O'Neil ranked ninth nationally and third in the Big 12 with 87.6 percent accuracy (127-of-145) ... she was the Big 12 leader in league games, hitting 88.2 from the line.
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