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Iowa State University Athletics
Minnesota Up Next for Cyclones
12.07.2006 | Women's Basketball
Iowa State plays host to the Minnesota Golden Gophers at 7 p.m. Saturday at Hilton Coliseum before taking a week hiatus for finals ... the Cyclones will then travel to Des Moines to host Saint Louis at 11 a.m. on Dec. 16, in their only game outside of Hilton in the month of December ... ISU is 6-1 after collecting a 70-62 win over in-state rival Drake on Tuesday night to capture its second straight mythical state title ... Minnesota is 8-1 on the season and picked up a 74-65 win at Nebraska on Tuesday night ... the Gophers lead the series with the Cyclones 9-5, and Minnesota won the last meeting between the two last season, 66-61, in Minneapolis.
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.
On the Tube
The Iowa State-Minnesota game will be televised statewide on Mediacom Connections channels (channel 4 in central Iowa), check your local listings ... B.J. Schaben (play-by-play) and Kelly Hanfelt (color) will be calling the action.
Last Time Out
Toccara Ross led Iowa State as it knocked off Drake, 70-62, Tuesday night ... with the win, ISU claimed its second straight mythical state title, after defeating Northern Iowa and Iowa earlier this season ... Drake tied the game at 46-all with 10 minutes to play in the contest, but Iowa State ran off an 11-0 spurt that included three-point baskets by freshman Alison Lacey and sophomore post player Nicky Wieben, to go ahead 57-48, and ISU never relinquished its lead ... the Bulldogs cut ISU's lead to four points twice in the last minute and a half, but Lyndsey Medders and Heather Ezell were a perfect 6-for-6 from the charity stripe down the stretch to hold off Drake ... Ross piled up her sixth straight double-figure scoring effort with a career-high 23 points and seven rebounds to lead the Cyclones ... Wieben posted 15 points and six rebounds, and Rachel Pierson had 11 points and three boards, as the post players paced Iowa State for the second straight contest ... Iowa State shot 57.7 percent from the field for the game, while being held to a 22.2 percent mark from three-point range ... the Cyclones owned the boards in the second half, winning the rebounding battle, 40-29 ... Drake shot 41.3 percent from the field and was led by a career-high 25 points from Brandy Dahir.
About the Cyclones
Iowa State has won its last three contests, including a 70-62 win over Drake on Tuesday, to improve to 6-1 on the season and 3-0 at Hilton Coliseum this year ... junior college transfer Toccara Ross is leading the Cyclones with 14.7 points and 6.9 rebounds per game ... senior All-America candidate Lyndsey Medders is averaging 13.7 points and 7.1 assists per outing ... Nicky Wieben has posted back-to-back double digit scoring outings to average 10.7 ppg and Heather Ezell has posted 6.6 points a game ... ISU is outscoring opponents by a margin of +11.4, and is averaging 74.4 ppg as a team ... the Cyclones are shooting 46.9 percent from the field and 36.5 from three-point range ... ISU has outrebounded opponents with a +8.1 margin ... Iowa State is in its 34th season of women's basketball and holds a 476-464 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 Golden Gophers
Minnesota is 8-2 on the season with losses to Middle Tennessee and Wisconsin-Green Bay ... the Gophers have won their last four straight, including a 74-65 win at Nebraska on Tuesday night ... Minnesota opened their season with a 75-63 win over Northern Iowa ... the Gophers are a very young team, with just one senior on the squad to go with seven freshmen ... senior Kelly Roysland has led UM with 15.3 ppg this season ... freshman Korinne Campbell has led the Gophers on the boards with 8.6 per contest ... as a team, Minnesota is averaging 73 ppg and holding opponents to 62.3 ... UM is shooting 43 percent from the field and 34.9 percent from three-point range... the Gophers are outrebounding opponents, 45.8-35.2 ... head coach Pam Borton is in her fifth season at Minnesota, leading the Gophers to four straight NCAA appearances, including the 2004 Final Four.
The Series
Minnesota leads the all-time series with Iowa State, 9-5 ... ISU leads the series in Ames, 4-3 ... Minnesota picked up a 66-61 victory in the meeting last season in Minneapolis ... that game was the first in the series in eight seasons ... Minnesota is the second team from the Big Ten ISU will face this season, as the Cyclones knocked of Iowa, 80-74, on Nov. 30 ... ISU head coach Bill Fennelly is 21-9 against Big Ten teams, and 16-5 at Iowa State ... Fennelly is 2-1 all-time against the Gophers.
Record Setting
Lyndsey Medders ranks 13th in school history with 1,124 career points, passing Carmen Jaspers (1,097), against Iowa ... she is now 35 points shy of passing Colleen Peterson (1,158) for 12th place on the ISU career chart ... Medders also ranks second on the ISU career assists chart with 553 ... she is 36 shy of tying Lindsey Wilson for first place on that list ... Megan Ronhovde has made her way onto the ISU career rebounding charts, ranking ninth with 572 ... Nicky Wieben had five blocked shots against Cal State Fullerton and again at Iowa, and now has 73 for her career, which is good for eighth place on the Iowa State career charts ... she moved ahead of Barb Gordon (1991-94), who had 61 ... she is now one shy of Katie Robinette's 74.
Leaders of the Pack
The Cyclones were ranked among the nation's elite in the first NCAA statistics released on Monday ... the Cyclones' 8.8 three-pointers per game ranked sixth nationally ... their 76.8 free throw percentage ranked 16th and their 47.1 field goal percentage ranked 25th ... individually, Lyndsey Medders ranked fifth with 7.2 assists per game ... Nicky Wieben's 2.2 blocks per game ranked 33rd and Toccara Ross' 55.2 shooting percentage ranked 55th ... Heather Ezell's 42.4 three-point shooting mark ranked 50th.
Big 12 Rankings
In games through Wednesday, the Cyclones led the Big 12 in three-point field goals per game and ranked third in assists and fifth rebounding margin ... ISU was sixth in scoring offense, second in free throw percentage, fifth in field goal percentage and third in three-point field goal accuracy ... individually, Lyndsey Medders leads the league in assists ... Toccara Ross ranks eighth in scoring, while Medders is 14th ... Rachel Pierson is third in field goal percentage and Ross is fifth in free throw percentage.
The Season of Giving
Iowa State has passed out 122 assists on 186 made field goals for the season, for 66 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 is the sixth best mark in school history for a season.
Double-Trouble
Junior college transfer Toccara Ross has notched six straight games of double-digit scoring, including posting back-to-back double-doubles to lead Iowa State in the Pepperdine Thanksgiving Tournament ... she had her best game of the season with 23 points, seven rebounds and three assists against Drake ... Ross had 19 points and six rebounds, including going 7-of-13 from the field, against UNI ...she turned in 18 points and 11 rebounds in the win over Virginia Tech and had 16 points and 11 rebounds vs. Pepperdine.
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 405-164 overall and 238-111 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 ... 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 15 votes this week in the AP Poll, good for 36th 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 341 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 142-27 record (.840) in Hilton Coliseum, including a 63-3 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 ... 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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