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Iowa State University Athletics
Cyclones Host Three Days of Hoops
12.26.2006 | Women's Basketball
AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State women's basketball team will play host to Colgate at 7 p.m. Thursday at Hilton Coliseum, before hosting the American Family Insurance Cyclone Classic on Friday and Saturday to wrap up the non-conference slate... Loyola Marymount and Utah State will join ISU and Colgate in the Cyclone Classic, which begins at 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday ... the Cyclones return from their week hiatus at 9-1 overall, while Colgate is 1-10 on the year ... ISU senior All-America candidate Lyndsey Medders is 12 assists shy of breaking the Iowa State career record ... Toccara Ross leads the Cyclones with 13.4 ppg and 6.5 rpg ... this game is the second in five straight in Hilton Coliseum for Iowa State.
On the Air
The game will 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.
World Wide
The Colgate 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 is available with a subscription to the Clone Zone.
Last Time Out
Lyndsey Medders, Nicky Wieben and Toccara Ross led the Cyclones to a 74-67 win over Illinois State at Hilton Colieum on Dec. 20 ... Medders turned in her second double-double of the season with 18 points and 11 assists, while Wieben posted a points-rebounds double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds ... Ross had 17 points, eight rebounds and four steals ... ISU shot 42 percent from the floor and was 6-of-18 from three-point range (33.3 percent) for the contest ... ISU outrebounded the Redbirds, 46-38 ... the Cyclones held Illinois State to 37.9 percent shooting from the field and 32.1 percent from beyond the arc ... Iowa State got out to a 12-point lead, 50-38, on a basket by Alison Lacey, but Illinois State went on a 10-3 run to cut the Cyclones' lead to five, 53-48, with 10 and a half minutes left ... the Redbirds continued to put together a run, eventually taking their first second half lead, 59-57, on a trey by Sara Stevenson with 7:40 left ... Iowa State then went on a run of its own, after tying the game at 61, to take a five-point advantage, 66-61, on a bucket in the paint by Lacey with seven minutes left ... Illinois State got as close as two points down the stretch, but the Cyclones locked down on defense, continued to find offensive boards and hit free throws to preserve the win.
About the Cyclones
Iowa State has won its last six contests, including a 74-67 win over Illinois State, to improve to 9-1 on the season ... ISU is 5-0 at Hilton Coliseum this year ... junior Toccara Ross is leading the Cyclones with 13.4 points and 6.5 rebounds per game ... senior All-America candidate Lyndsey Medders leads the squad with 7.4 assists per outing, and ranks in the top five nationally ... ISU is outscoring opponents by a margin of +12.5, and is averaging 73.8 ppg ... the Cyclones are shooting 45.3 percent from the field and 35 percent from three-point range ... ISU has outrebounded opponents with a +8.7 margin ... Iowa State is in its 34th season of women's basketball and holds a 479-464 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.
About the Raiders
Colgate comes into Ames with a 1-10 record .... the Raiders won their only game of the season at home against Canisus, 62-57, in overtime ... head coach Kristin Hughes is in her third season at the helm of the Colgate program ... junior Caitlin Gillard leads the Raiders with 11.2 points and 7.7 rebounds per contest ... Katie Garman led the Raiders with a career-high 13 points in their last game against Boston College ... Gillard had six points and a team-high six rebounds for Colgate ... the Raiders shot 41 percent from the field for the game and 41 percent from long range ... for the season, Colgate has shot 35.1 percent from the floor and has posted 53.5 ppg, while giving up 70.9 ... Gillard is averaging 1.9 blocks per game and has 21 on the season.
The Series
Iowa State won its only meeting with Colgate, an 86-46 victory, on Dec. 14, 2002, in the Cyclone Classic.
Record Setting
Lyndsey Medders ranks 12th in school history with 1,158 career points, tying Colleen Peterson (1,158) on the ISU career chart against Illinois State ... Medders also ranks second on the ISU career assists chart with 577 ... she is 11 shy of tying Lindsey Wilson for first place on that list ... Megan Ronhovde has made her way onto the ISU career rebounding charts, ranking eighth with 588, and is 36 shy of seventh place ... Nicky Wieben has 16 blocked shots this season and has 75 for her career, which is good for seventh place on the Iowa State career charts ... she moved ahead of Katie Robinette against Minnesota and is now 10 shy of Carmen Jasper's sixth-place mark.
Rookie of the Week
Freshman Rachel Pierson was named the Phillips 66 Big 12 Conference Rookie of the Week by a media voting panel for games from Dec. 3-10 ... Pierson averaged 12.5 points and five rebounds a game while shooting 57.9 percent from the field in wins over Drake and Minnesota ... she went 5-of-8 from the floor and had 11 points in 17 minutes against the Bulldogs, playing short minutes due to foul trouble ... the St. Louis native led the Cyclones with 14 points, including 12 in the first half, and seven rebounds in 30 minutes against UM ... she blocked two shots and had one assist vs. the Golden Gophers.
Cyclones Making Way Through Schedule
Iowa State is 9-1 on the season, including a current six-game winning streak ... ISU has faced five NCAA Tournament teams from a season ago and seven of the 10 teams on ISU's schedule to this point were in the postseason last year ... the Cyclones have gone 4-1 against 2006 NCAA Tourney teams, with their only loss coming at Pepperdine.
State Champs
Iowa State claimed the mythical state championship for the second consecutive season ... the Cyclones defeated Northern Iowa, 80-74, in overtime in Cedar Falls on Nov. 20 ... then knocked off the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Hy-Vee Cy-Hawk Series in Iowa City on Nov. 30, 80-74 ... and ISU defeated Drake, 70-62, at Hilton Coliseum on Dec. 5.
Leaders of the Pack
The Cyclones were ranked in the top 50 of most NCAA statistical categories (released last on Dec. 17, and will be released again on Jan. 2) ... the Cyclones' 8.1 three-pointers per game ranked eighth nationally ... their 76.7 free throw percentage ranked 18th, their +8.8 rebound margin is 20th and their 34.7 field goal percentage defense is 21st ... individually, Lyndsey Medders ranked fourth with 7.0 assists per game ... Nicky Wieben's 1.8 blocks per game ranked 64th and Toccara Ross' 56.6 shooting percentage ranked 33rd.
Big 12 Rankings
In games through Dec. 21, the Cyclones led the Big 12 in three-point field goals per game (7.9) and ranked third in assists (18.2) and assist-to-turnover ratio ... ISU was sixth in field goal percentage (.453), and fifth in three-point field goal accuracy (.35) and rebounding margin (+8.7) ... individually, Lyndsey Medders leads the league in assists (7.4) ... Toccara Ross is 13th in individual scoring and Medders is 26th ... Nicky Wieben is sixth (1.6) in blocked shots, Heather Ezell is second in assist-to-turnover ratio, and Ross and Rachel Pierson are eighth and 10th, respectively, in field goal percentage.
The Season of Giving
Iowa State has passed out 182 assists on 267 made field goals for the season, for 68.2 percent ... that is the best assist-to-field goal ratio since the Cyclones posted 68 percent or better in back-to-back seasons in 2000-01 and 2001-02 ... it ties as the best mark in school history for a season.
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 408-164 overall and 242-111 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 ... most recently she was named a top 50 finalist for the Naismith Trophy presented by Cingular Wireless ... 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 ... ISU received 18 votes this week in the AP Poll, good for 30th place ... ISU was picked No. 23 in two preseason publications, including Street & Smith's College Basketball Yearbook and SportsPageMagazine.com.
Trey Bien
Iowa State has made at least one three-pointer in 344 consecutive regular-season games dating back to 1995 ... that streak ranks second nationally behind Cleveland State ... the school record for three-pointers made in a game is 18 (vs. Missouri, Feb. 19, 2000), which ISU challenged in their game against Virginia Tech, hitting 14-of-27 on the contest.
Home Sweet Hilton Magic
The Cyclones have been phenomenal at home during head coach Bill Fennelly's tenure, compiling a 144-27 record (.842) in Hilton Coliseum, including a 65-3 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.
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 ... 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 ... ISU head coach Bill Fennelly finished the season one win shy of 400 career victories ... Nicky Wieben set the single-season blocked shots record (59) ... 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 ... 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) ... Iowa State made more free throws (383) than its opponents attempted (307).
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