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Iowa State University Athletics
ISU Set for Final Exhibition vs. Upper Iowa
11.08.2006 | Women's Basketball
Iowa State will wrap up the 2006-07 exhibition season on Sunday when the Cyclones face their final test in Upper Iowa University at 6:30 p.m. at Hilton Coliseum ... ISU opened the season with a 72-50 win over St. Cloud State last Sunday ... the Cyclones begin regular season play Nov. 15, against Cal State Fullerton ... Iowa State is coming off an 18-13 season, in which the Cyclones closed out the slate in the second round of the Women's National Invitation Tournament, marking their ninth postseason appearance in the last 10 years ...ISU won both of its exhibition contests a year ago (Concorida-St. Paul, 87-59; Grand View, 94-55).
On the Air
Iowa State's game will be broadcast live on the Cyclone Radio Network (105.1 FM and 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
Sophomore Nicky Wieben and junior college transfer Toccara Ross turned in double-double performances in the Cyclones frontcourt as ISU posted a 72-50 win in exhibition play over St. Cloud State ... Wieben opened her sophomore season by leading the Cyclones with 21 points and 12 rebounds ... Ross opened her ISU career with a 15-point, 10 rebound performance in front of 9,275 fans at Hilton Coliseum ... senior Lyndsey Medders rounded out the double-digit scorers for ISU with 11 points to go with her eight assists ... the Cyclones began to pull away from the Huskies as sophomore Heather Ezell knocked down a three-pointer with 13:17 to go in the contest to open a 50-30 lead ... the Huskies weren't finished however, as they used a 13-4 run to close the gap to 54-43 with 9:22 left ... Ross and Wieben each got buckets in the paint to make it a 60-45 game and ISU never looked back.
About the Cyclones
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 ... sophomore Heather Ezell had offseason surgery on her knee, but was in the starting lineup for the exhibition opener against St. Cloud State ... Rachel Pierson missed the first exhibition game due to a mono-like virus and coaches are optimistic she will return against Upper Iowa ... she was redshirted last season after undergoing back surgery.
About the Peacocks
Upper Iowa University will face the Cyclones in its second exhibition contest of the preseason ... the Peacocks fell to Luther, 82-81, in double overtime on Nov. 2, in Fayette, Iowa ... Upper Iowa had five players in double figures in that contest ... UIU finished the 2005-06 campaign with a 6-23 overall record ... Head Coach Ben Conrad is in his second season at Upper Iowa ... he served as a graduate assistant for the Cyclones in 2000-01 and earned a master's degree in exercise science from Iowa State in 2001 ... the Peacocks retun four starters from a season ago, including leading scorer junior Christa Hammel, who averaged 14.2 points and 9.6 rebounds per game.
World Wide
The final women's exhibition game will be shown live via a webcast on Cyclones.com for fans everywhere to enjoy ... the video feed will be streamed using the new videoboard technology recently installed in Hilton Coliseum ... fans who cannot make it to the game will be able to see exactly what is being shown on the Hilton videoboard during the game, live from their computer ... this exclusive premium content comes to fans courtesy of the Clone Zone.
The Cyclone - Peacock Series
The teams meet for the first time.
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 3-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).
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 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.
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Iowa State has made at least one 3-pointer in 335 consecutive regular-season games dating back to 1995 ... that streak ranks third nationally behind Cleveland State and Drake ... the school record for 3-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 139-27 record (.837) in Hilton Coliseum, including a 60-3 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.
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