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Iowa State University Athletics
Cyclones Open Exhibition Slate vs. Black Hills State
11.01.2009 | Men's Basketball
AMES, Iowa- Iowa State fans will get their first chance to see the 2009-10 Cyclone men's basketball team on Monday with a 7 p.m. exhibition game vs. Black Hills State. ISU has two exhibition games before beginning the regular season on Nov. 13 vs. Idaho State.
Who: Iowa State (0-0, 0-0) vs. Black Hills State (1-0, 0-0)
When: Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 ? 7 p.m.
Where: Ames, Iowa ? Hilton Coliseum (14,356)
Radio: Cyclone Radio Network/Learfield
Talent: John Walters (pxp); Eric Heft (color)
Television: None
Live Stats: cyclones.com
Webcast/Online Audio: Clone Zone
Cyclone Notebook
- Iowa State fans will get their first chance to see the 2009-10 Cyclone men's basketball team on Monday with a 7 p.m. exhibition game vs. Black Hills State.
- The Black Hills State game will be available on the internet to subscribers of the Clone Zone video package...go to cyclones.com for purchasing information...you can also subscribe to Clone Zone audio to listen online to the radio broadcasts for the entire season.
- ISU will play two exhibition games before beginning the regular season on Nov. 13 with a matchup vs. Idaho State in Hilton Coliseum.
- ISU will finish off the exhibition season against UNC-Pembroke on Friday...it will be a homecoming for a pair of UNCP coaches Ben Miller (head coach) and Eldon Miller (assistant coach)...Ben is the son of Eldon, who was the head coach at UNI from 1987-98...ISU head coach Greg McDermott played for Eldon in his final two seasons with the Panthers (1987-88)...Ben played basketball at Luther.
- ISU is 40-4 in exhibition games dating back to the 1983-84 season...the last time ISU lost an exhibition game was in the 2005-06 season when they fell to EA Sports, 64-57.
- ISU was picked to finish eighth in the preseason Big 12 Coaches poll.
Iowa State Quick Facts
- ISU head coach Greg McDermott begins his fourth season with the Cyclones...he has a 44-51 overall record.
- ISU will start Craig Brackins, Justin Hamilton, Marquis Gilstrap, Lucca Staiger and Diante Garrett on Monday.
- For the first time in many years the Cyclones have the luxury of returning four starters from last year's 15-17 squad in Brackins, Garrett, Staiger and Hamilton...Brackins and Garrett started 31 and 32 games, respectively, last season.
- ISU's only starter lost is Bryan Petersen, a recruited walk-on who earned a scholarship...Petersen averaged 6.6 points and is currently a graduate assistant with the team this year.
- ISU has six newcomers on the team- four scholarship, two recruited walk-ons.
- Junior forward Craig Brackins is ISU's top returnee after an impressive sophomore season where he earned All-Big 12 First-Team honors, honorable mention All-America accolades and several all-District awards...Brackins averaged 20.2 points and 9.5 rebounds, ranking in the top-30 nationally in both categories...he is the fourth-best returning scorer in the country.
- Brackins became just the fifth Cyclone in school history to eclipse the 1,000-point mark in two seasons (1,011).
- Brackins has been named to several preseason All-America teams, including the preseason Wooden Award and Naismith Award watch lists, and is considered one of the best players in the nation...he was named preseason All-Big 12 First-Team.
- Junior point guard Diante Garrett, who started all 32 games last year, is back as one of the team's seasoned veterans...Garrett was second on the team in scoring (9.8 ppg) and ranked third in the Big 12 and 36th nationally in assists (5.0 apg) a year ago...his 161 dimes ranked 14th on ISU's single-season assist list.
- Junior Lucca Staiger is back as one of the Big 12's best shooters...Staiger averaged 8.2 points and led the team in 3-pointers made (74)...he ranked sixth in the Big 12 in 3FG made per game (2.3).
- Senior Jamie Vanderbeken and Sophomore Justin Hamilton both saw plenty of action in the post last season for the Cyclones...Vanderbeken averaged 5.5 points and led the team in 3-point shooting percentage (40.7; 35-86) a year ago while providing ISU instant offense from the bench...Hamilton started 18 of the last 21 games of his rookie season, averaging 4.2 points and 2.9 rebounds...he led ISU in FG pct. at 57.0 pct.
- Vanderbeken has been slowed by a stress fracture in his foot and will miss Monday's exhibition vs. Black Hills State.
Cyclones Earn Preseason Big 12 Awards
- ISU junior Craig Brackins and senior Marquis Gilstrap (pronounced Mar-KWEZ) were honored in the 2009-10 Big 12 Preseason Coaches Awards...Brackins was a preseason All-Big 12 First-Team pick and Gilstrap, a junior college transfer from Gulf Coast C.C. [Fla.], was selected as the 2009 Preseason Big 12 Newcomer of the Year.
- Gilstrap began his NCAA time clock in the 2005-06 season at Palm Beach C.C...after suffering a severe leg injury, he left school and worked during the 2006-07 and 2007-08 basketball seasons.
- He went back to school last year (2008-09) at Gulf Coast C.C., where he earned Panhandle Conference Player of the Year honors after averaging 22.6 points and 10.1 rebounds...he is listed as a senior because this is his fifth season of eligibility according to the NCAA “five years to play four” rule.
Cyclone-Yellow Jacket Quick Facts
- Iowa State has never played Black Hills State, an NAIA school located in Spearfish, S.D...the last time ISU competed against an NAIA school was on Nov. 20, 2005 when the Cyclones defeated Mountain State, 101-82 to open the 2005-06 season.
- Black Hills State head coach Paul Sather was an assistant coach at Colorado for one season in 2004-05.
- Sather was a graduate assistant at Wayne State from 1997-99 under ISU head coach Greg McDermott.
- He was also an assistant coach at Northern State, his alma mater, where he went head-to-head against McDermott when he was at WSC as members of the Northern Sun Conference.
A Closer Look At Black Hills State
- Black Hills State (1-0, 0-0) returns all five starters, including three All-Americans, from last year's team that finished 30-5 and advanced to the NAIA Final Four.
- Last year's team set school records for wins in a season (30) and consecutive wins (15), while earning its first Final Four berth.
- The Yellow Jackets opened their season with a 91-87 victory over Rocky Mountain College Saturday night...Cain Atkinson led all players with 26 points, aided by a 15-of-16 performance at the free-throw line.
- Junior Luke Enos, a 6-7 forward from Faith, S.D., is back as one of the best players in NAIA...Enos was named second-team All-American, Dakota Athletic Conference Player of the Year, NAIA Championship All-Tournament team and first-team All-DAC last season...Enos averaged 15.5 points, 6.6 rebounds and led the league in field goal percentage at 61.0 percent...Enos had a team-high 13 boards in the win over Rocky Mountain.
- Junior forward Will John Johnson, a first-team All-DAC pick and honorable mention All-American last year, returns as one of the school's greatest rebounders...Johnson broke the BSU single-season rebounding mark with 348 boards last season, averaging 10.0 caroms per game to go along with his 8.9 scoring average.
- Atkinson rounds out the Yellow Jackets trio of All-Americans...Atkinson, a 6-0, junior guard from Evanston, Wyo., was a first-team All-DAC pick and honorable mention All-American selection last year...Atkinson broke the school's single-season free-throw percentage mark last year by hitting 87.7 percent of his shots from the charity stripe...as a two-year starter, Atkinson has already surpassed the 1,000-point mark (1,051)...he led the team in scoring a year ago at 16.6 ppg.
- Junior starting guard Clay Pottorff also returns to the lineup...the Greeley, Colo., native averaged 11.5 points.
Brackins One Of The Nation's Best
- When Iowa State junior Craig Brackins announced in April of 2009 he would return to school and put off the NBA for at least one more season, he immediately became one of the best players in college basketball for 2009-10.
- The Cyclone big man made the preseason Wooden Award and Naismith Award watch lists, respectively, and has been listed as a preseason All-American by a slew of magazines and college basketball journals and websites.
- Brackins burst onto the national basketball radar last season when he ranked in the top-30 nationally in both scoring (20.2 ppg) and rebounding (9.5 rpg), just one of three players nationally to do so.
- He entered his junior season as just the fifth player in ISU history to score over 1,000 points in their first two seasons and as the fourth-best returning scorer in the nation.
- Has 24 20-point games and four 30-point games in his career.
- Has 14 20-point/10-rebound games and 18 double-doubles in his career.
- On ISU's all-time career record charts, he ranks 10th in multiple 30-point games (4), 12th in blocks (61) and 26th in scoring (1,011).
Cyclones Excel In International Competition
- Iowa State basketball players were extremely busy in the summer of the 2009 while competing at the international level.
- Junior Craig Brackins played on the United States team that won a bronze medal at the 2009 World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia...Brackins averaged 6.6 points and led the U.S. team on the boards at 6.0 rpg.
- Junior Lucca Staiger also played in the World University Games, representing Germany...Staiger led his German team in scoring (13.4 ppg) and made 38.0 percent (21-55 3FG) from 3-point range in the competition.
- Staiger eventually achieved his dream by earning a spot on the German A2 National Team that competed in the 2009 European Championships in Poland...Staiger averaged 5.0 points at the prestigious event.
- Senior Jamie Vanderbeken earned a tryout with the Great Britain national team which competed in the 2009 European Championships...however, he suffered a stress fracture on the first day of tryouts, ending his chances of playing at the 2009 Eurobasket.
Exhibition Records
- Iowa State has been playing exhibition games since the 1950s...however, records of exhibition contests played before 1983 are sketchy.
- Iowa State is 40-4 in exhibition games since the 1983-84 season...the majority of ISU's exhibitions were against AAU teams, foreign national teams or teams comprised of former college players specifically gathered for preseason exhibitions.
- In the 2004-05 season, the NCAA passed a rule where schools could play other NCAA schools in lower divisions in an exhibition game...ISU played Bemidji State in 2004 and 2005, Wayne State in 2006, Dubuque in 2007 and Nebraska-Omaha in 2008.
- All preseason exhibition games now have to be played against four-year collegiate institutions.
Hilton Magic
- Hilton Coliseum has long been considered one of the toughest places to play in college basketball...built in 1971 and playing in its 39th season, ISU has recorded a 73.9 percent winning mark, compiling a 422-149 record.
- ISU has recorded four undefeated seasons at home since Hilton was erected (1985-86, 1992-93, 1999-00, 2000-01).
- ISU has ranked in the top-30 nationally in attendance the last three seasons.
It's In The Genes
- ISU has a number of players on its roster with outstanding athletic genes.
- Junior Charles Boozer's brother, Carlos, is one of the top post players in the NBA, making the NBA All-Star game twice...Boozer averaged 21.1 points and 10.4 rebounds in 2007-08...he was also a member of the USA Basketball team that won the Gold Medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
- Junior Diante Garrett also has outstanding basketball roots...his father, Dick, played five seasons in the NBA for the Los Angeles Lakers, Buffalo Braves, New York Knicks and Milwaukee Bucks, averaging 10.3 ppg...Garrett played in the 1970 NBA Finals (Lakers) and the 1974 NBA Finals (Bucks).
- Sophomore Justin Hamilton's parents were both elite athletes at Brigham Young in the mid-1980s...his father, Larry, was a two-sport star with the Cougars...he was a two-time NCAA qualifier at heavyweight in wrestling (1982 & 1983)...in 1982, Larry wrestled in Hilton Coliseum at the NCAA Championships...Larry was also star on the BYU football team, playing three seasons at defensive tackle with the Cougars (1982-84)...he had 61 tackles, eight tackles for loss and two sacks on BYU's 1984 national championship team...he was drafted by the Denver Gold of the USFL in 1985...his mother, Tami, was a two-time all-conference volleyball player (1984 & 1985), competing in the NCAA Tournament both seasons...she still holds the NCAA record for most assists in a single-season with 2,026 in 1984.
Iowa State Team Quick Facts
- ISU has 15 players on the roster...13 are on scholarship and two are walk-ons...freshmen Bubu Palo and Alex Dorr are the only two players on the team not on scholarship.
- ISU has players from nine states (Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, California, Utah, Illinois, Georgia and South Carolina) on the roster and two international players (Canada and Germany)...Jamie Vanderbeken is the first Canadian to play for ISU and Lucca Staiger is the first German to suit up for the Cyclones.
- ISU head coach Greg McDermott is the first native Iowan to coach the Cyclones since Clayton Sutherland (1948-54)...McDermott is from Cascade; Sutherland was from Nashua.
- ISU has two lefthanders on the team in freshmen L.A. Pomlee and Alex Dorr.
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