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Iowa State University Athletics
Cyclones Travel to Thanksgiving Tourney
11.21.2006 | Women's Basketball
The Cyclones travel to Malibu, Calif., to participate in the Pepperdine Tournament Friday and Saturday, Nov. 24-25 ... Iowa State will face Virginia Tech at 3 p.m. (CST) Friday in the tournament opener, and will face Tennessee Tech or Pepperdine on Saturday at either 3 or 5:30 p.m. (CST) ... senior All-America candidate Lyndsey Medders is making the trip home (Los Angeles) for the first time in her collegiate career ... Iowa State is 2-0 for the eighth time under Head Coach Bill Fennelly, and the 13th time in school history ... the Cyclones are coming off a comeback overtime win over Northern Iowa on Monday night, 80-74.
On the Air
Both tournament games will also be broadcast live on the Cyclone Radio Network (1430 AM in Ames) ... every game is broadcast live on the internet at Cyclones.com ... broadcasts will be streamed by Yahoo! Sports and will cost $4.95 per month, which will include broadcasts of football, men's basketball and the Coaches shows.
Last Time Out
Iowa State came back from a 13-point deficit with just over seven minutes remaining to defeat Northern Iowa, 80-74, in overtime, as UNI opened its new gym, the McLeod Center, on Monday ... the Cyclones were hot for the second straight game, hitting 46.8 percent from the field, including going 4-of-6 from the floor in the extra period ... five Cyclones finished the game in double figures, led by junior college transfer Toccara Ross with 19 points and redshirt freshman Rachel Pierson with 18 ... sophomore Heather Ezell was held scoreless until there was 16 minutes in the second half, but finished with 15 points, including back-to-back threes to cut the UNI lead to two points, 68-66, with 2:17 left in regulation ... Lyndsey Medders earned her first double-double of the season with 13 points and 11 assists ... ISU won the battle of the boards with a 47-29 rebounding advantage ... ISU overcame a 38-point scoring outburst by UNI's Tara King.
About the Cyclones
Iowa State is in its 34th season of women's basketball and holds a 472-463 overall record ... the 2006-07 Iowa State roster has 14 active players on it, the largest number on an ISU roster to start the season since 2001-02 when the Cyclones had 15 players ... the Cyclones are coming off an 18-13 season in which they made it to the second round of the WNIT for their ninth postseason appearance in the last 10 years ... sophomore Heather Ezell was in the starting lineup for both exhibition contests despite undergoing offseason knee surgery ... Ezell suffered a minor concussion during the Upper Iowa contest and did not start vs. Cal State Fullerton, but played 22 minutes and started at UNI... Rachel Pierson saw her first regular-season action against CSF, the first in a year ... she was redshirted last season after undergoing back surgery.
About the Hokies
Virginia Tech opens the Pepperdine Tournament with a 3-2 overall record ... picked up a 66-50 win over Delaware State on Nov. 18 ... other wins have come vs. Howard (97-78) and West Virginia (60-56) ... the Hokies' losses have come in the season opener against Radford (67-60) and vs. 10th-ranked LSU, 70-40 ... Virginia Tech is averaging 64.6 points per game on 44.8 percent shooting from the field ... the Hokies are 9-of-44 from long range and are averaging 40.4 rebounds per game ... seniors Nare Diawara and Kirby Copeland lead VT with 13.2 ppg and 7.6 rpg, and 13 ppg and 4.8 apg, respectively ... Virginia Tech is coached by Beth Dunkenberger, who is in her third season with the Hokies and has led them to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in her first two seasons.
About the Waves
Pepperdine enters its tournament opener against Tennessee Tech with an overall 2-2 record ... the Waves lost 72-54 to 18th-ranked California on Nov. 18, after picking up an upset win over 14th-ranked Rutgers, 75-73, in overtime a day earlier ... opened the season with a 72-48 loss at then-14th ranked Texas A&M and won 57-42 at UNLV on Nov. 12 ... is averaging 58.5 points per game and is shooting 41.7 percent from the field and 23.1 percent from outside the arc ... outrebounding opponents with a +0.5 margin and averages 24.5 turnovers a contest ... the Waves are led by juniors Teiosha George with 12. 8 ppg and 5 rpg, and Daphanie Kennedy with 12.3 ppg and 5.3 rpg ... Teena Wickett leads the Waves on the boards with 6.8 pg ... Pepperdine is coached by Julie Rousseau, who is in her third season with the Waves and is the former head coach of the WNBA's LA Sparks ... she is the fastest Pepperdine women's basketball head coach to take the Waves to the NCAA Tournament, accomplishing the feat in just her second season at the helm.
About the Golden Eagles
Tennessee Tech is 1-1 on the season with a 92-75 victory over Lambut University and a 72-56 loss at Alabama ... the Golden Eagles have posted 74 ppg, and have been hot from the field, shooting 47.9 percent from the floor and 40 percent from long range ... TTU is being outrebounded 39-36 pg, and has a 1.0 assist-to-turnover ratio ... sophomore Megan Lyons has led the team with 21 ppg, while junior Cara Reed is not far behind with a 17.5 scoring average ... Kritina Tyler leads the Eagles on the boards with seven grabs per contest ... Tennessee Tech is coached by Amy Brown, who is in her first season at the helm of the TTU program ... she was promoted to head coach to replace retiring Bill Worrell after spending 10 years on his staff ... she is only the third head coach in school history.
The Series
Iowa State has faced Virginia Tech and Pepperdine once each, and has never played Tennessee Tech ... the Cyclones fell, 67-57, in another Thanksgiving tournament in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, on Nov. 28, 2003, a game in which the current ISU seniors were freshmen ... the Cyclones are 1-0 against Pepperdine, all-time, but have not met the Waves since Dec. 30, 1989, when ISU won 70-66 ... the current ISU freshmen were only a year old.
Major Milestone
ISU head coach Bill Fennelly earned his 400th career victory with the Cyclones' season-opening win vs. Cal State Fullerton ... Fennelly is now 401-163 overall and 235-110 in his 12 seasons with the Cyclones ... his 300th career win came against Baylor on March 7, 2001, in the Big 12 Tournament ... No. 200 also came in the Big 12 Tourney, defeating Texas A&M on March 4, 1997 ... notched his 100th career win while coaching at Toledo, turning back Providence, 74-64, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on March 18, 1992.
Early Season Honors
All-America candidate Lyndsey Medders has earned numerous preseason accolades, including being named to the All-Big 12 Preseason Team ... she was named to the Women's John R. Wooden Award Preseason All-America Team ... she was also named one of the nation's top five point guards by ESPN.com ... she earned preseason all-America recognition from SportsPageMagazine.com and Street & Smith's College Basketball Yearbook ... Medders led the Cyclones a year ago with 16.5 points per game, and led the nation in assists with a 7.7 pg average ... she was named to the All-Big 12 First Team last season, and earned third-team all-America honors from Women's Basketball News Service in 2005-06.
Head coach Bill Fennelly took over a program that had only five winning seasons in its first 22 years and has guided ISU to nine postseason appearances in the last 10 years ... he earned the 400th win of his career in the 2006-07 season opener against Cal State Fullerton ... he has led the Cyclones to seven NCAA Tournament appearances, including a 1999 Elite Eight berth and Sweet Sixteen games in 2000 and 2001 ... Fennelly's Cyclones captured the only league championships in program history, winning back-to-back Big 12 Conference Tournament championships in 2000 and 2001 and earning a share of the regular-season crown in 2000 ... Iowa State spent more than four years in The Associated Press national poll, including 34 weeks in the top 10 ... he has posted more than double the conference victories (105) in 11 seasons at ISU than all of the previous 15 seasons combined (43) ... his teams have drawn record-setting crowds, ranking among the top 11 schools nationally in attendance the last eight seasons ... Fennelly's leadership produced ISU's first-ever All-Americans in Stacy Frese (1999, 2000), Angie Welle (2000, 2001, 2002) and Anne O'Neil (2005) ... Welle was voted to the Big 12 Conference 10th Anniversary Team, an elite group of five players ... his Cyclones have earned all-conference recognition 26 times and academic all-league honors 51 times ... six of his players have been selected in the WNBA professional basketball draft over the last five years ... Fennelly, who guided Toledo to a 166-53 record and six postseason tournament berths in his seven years at UT, was inducted in the Toledo Varsity "T" Hall of Fame in 2003.
Where They Stack Up
Iowa State was picked fifth in the Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll ... the Cyclones found themselves receiving votes in the first Associated Press Poll ... this week, ISU earned 13 votes, which put the Cyclones at No. 38 on the list ... ISU was picked No. 23 in two preseason publications, including Street & Smith's College Basketball Yearbook and SportsPageMagazine.com.
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Iowa State has made at least one three-pointer in 337 consecutive regular-season games dating back to 1995 ... that streak ranks third nationally behind Cleveland State and Drake ... the school record for three-pointers made in a game is 18 (vs. Missouri, Feb. 19, 2000).
Home Sweet Hilton Magic
The Cyclones have been phenomenal at home during head coach Bill Fennelly's tenure, compiling a 140-27 record (.838) in Hilton Coliseum, including a 61-3 mark against regular-season nonconference opponents ... Iowa State finished 15-0 in Hilton Coliseum two years ago, the third Cyclone squad to go undefeated at home (all three have come under Fennelly) ... ISU finished the 2005-06 season ranked seventh in attendance, marking the eighth consecutive season the Cyclones have ranked 11th or higher.
Life on the Road
The Cyclones began a stretch of four straight road games at UNI on Monday ... ISU now travels to Malibu, Calif., where they will play two games in the Pepperdine Tournament ... ISU finishes up the road trip at Iowa on Nov. 30 ... that will mark the last time ISU hits the road until Jan. 6, when the Cyclones begin Big 12 road action at Missouri .. ISU is 9-7 in non-conference road games over the last six years and 25-32 overall in road contests during that span.
Record Setting
Lyndsey Medders ranks 15th in school history with 1,065 career points, passing Vanessa Ward (1,063), against UNI ... she is now 10 shy of surpassing Etta Burns (1,074) for 14th place on the ISU career chart ... Nicky Wieben had five blocked shots against Cal State Fullerton, giving her 64 and moving her up to eighth place on the Iowa State career charts just one game into her second collegiate season ... she moved ahead of Barb Gordon (1991-94), who had 61 ... she is now 10 shy of Katie Robinette's 74.
Lighting It Up
After going 8-for-32 from three-point range (.229) during two exhibition games, the Cyclones started the regular season on fire from beyond the arc, hitting 6-of-13 (46.7 percent) in the first half against Cal State Fullerton ... the Cyclones were 11-of-24 (.458) for the contest from downtown... against UNI, ISU was 7-of-23 from three-point range for 30.4 percent, giving the Cyclones a season average of 37.5 percent.
Two For 2007-08
Iowa natives Kelsey Bolte (Ida Grove) and Jocelyn Anderson (Gowrie) made it official Nov. 7 when they signed National Letters of Intent to join the Iowa State women's basketball team for the 2007-08 season ... Bolte, a 6-1 senior guard at Battle Creek-Ida Grove, was the 2006 2A Iowa state Player of the Year, and earned a place on the 2006 Iowa state all-tournament team while leading the Falcons to a 27-2 overall record and a place in the state championship game ... Bolte averaged 22 points, 11 rebounds, five assists and five steals as a junior to earn her second straight all-State first team honors and IBCA all-region accolades ... Bolte also won the state AAU tournament while playing on the Iowa Basketball Coaches Association Iowa Select team last year ... Anderson will join the Cyclones after two seasons at Des Moines Area Community College, where she is a sophomore this season ... the 6-4 center was chosen as a junior college preseason first-team All-American before the 2006-07 season began ... Anderson averaged 15.5 points, 11.2 rebounds and 5.3 blocked shots per game and shot 58.7 percent from the field as a freshman at DMACC to earn first team all-region and second team NJCAA All-America honors ... she led the Bears to a 19-14 record a season ago and DMACC was ranked sixth in the 2006-07 preseason poll ... at Prairie Valley High School, Anderson earned first team, second team and honorable mention honors over three seasons in the Twin Lakes Conference.
Looking Back at 2005-06
Iowa State played two rounds of the 2006 Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT), with both games going into overtime at Hilton Coliseum ... ISU topped UW-Green Bay 79-71 March 16 and fell to Marquette 69-63 March 20 ... it was Iowa State's ninth postseason appearance in the last 10 years ... this was the Cyclones' second appearance in the WNIT after advancing to the Final Four in 2004 ... Iowa State recorded its 15th winning season in school history, while head coach Bill Fennelly posted his 17th winning campaign in 18 years ... 13 of Iowa State's 22 opponents earned postseason bids ... Lyndsey Medders led the nation in assists per game with 7.7 ... Medders was named a third-team All-American by WBNS ... Brittany Wilkins averaged nearly a double-double (16.1 ppg and 8.9 rpg) before being picked up as a free agent by the WNBA Sacramento Monarchs, where she remained on the roster through the championship series.
2005-06 Season Milestones
Lyndsey Medders was the 17th player in ISU history to join the 1,000-point club ... she set the ISU single-season assists record, dishing 215 ... Iowa State head coach Bill Fennelly finished the season one win shy of 400 career victories ... Nicky Wieben set the single-season blocked shots record (59) and already ranks ninth all-time at ISU ... Medders set seven of the top 15 single-game assist records and owns nine of the top 23 performances overall ... Heather Ezell tied for sixth on that single-game assist mark with 13 vs. Missouri ... junior Megan Ronhovde played every minute in ISU's two Big 12 Conference Championship games and logged seven complete games for the season ... Iowa State used a six-player rotation in four games and a seven-player roster in six contests ... 40.5 percent of ISU's shots were three-pointers ... Iowa State rallied back from a halftime deficit in five of its wins ... ISU lost just one game in which it scored at least 70 points (11-1) ... the Cyclones picked up their first win when scoring fewer than 60 points (1-6) in the regular-season finale victory over Colorado ... Iowa State made more free throws (383) than its opponents attempted (307).
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