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Iowa State University Athletics
Iowa State Travels To Drake In First Road Test
11.14.2011 | Men's Basketball
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AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State men's basketball team travels to Drake on Tuesday (Nov. 15). Tipoff is slated for 8 p.m.
Who: Iowa State (1-0, 0-0) at Drake (1-0, 0-0)
Where: Des Moines, Iowa - Drake Knapp Center (7,152)
When: Tuesday, Nov. 15, 8 p.m. CST
Radio: Cyclone Radio Network/Learfield
Talent: John Walters (PxP), Eric Heft (Color)
TV: Mediacom
Talent: Larry Morgan (PxP), Adam Emmenecker (Color)
Webcast: Clone Zone (Tuesday's night's men's and women's basketball Clone Zone broadcasts will feature the Drake radio network and Knapp Center in-house production. Drakebulldogs.org has agreed to share the feed for Clone Zone subscribers)
Live Stats: Live stats will be available at drakebulldogs.org.
Live Blog: Mike Green, associate director of athletics communications, will be holding a live blog during the game at cyclones.com. Fans are encouraged to participate in the blog by asking questions.
Cyclone Notebook
- Iowa State will travel to Drake on Tuesday to play in one of the oldest rivalries west of the Mississippi...the two teams have played 170 times every year except one since 1908.
- The game will be the first of the three matchups against the state's other Division I schools, as the Cyclones will try to attempt to win their first mythical state title since the 2005-06 season...ISU plays host to UNI (Nov. 30) and Iowa (Dec. 9).
- Iowa State won its season opener for the 14th-straight season in an 86-77 win over Lehigh on Saturday.
- Iowa State is now 85-20 all-time in season-opening games.
- Iowa State had seven players play for the first time in a Cyclone uniform vs. Lehigh.
- Iowa State drilled 10 3-pointers in the win over Lehigh, the 14th time in the Fred Hoiberg era where ISU made 10 or more 3-pointers in a game.
- Iowa State will be without the services of center Jordan Railey, who is serving the second of his two-game suspension for a violation of team rules.
Cyclone-Bulldog Quick Facts
- The Iowa State-Drake series is one of the oldest annual rivalries west of the Mississippi...the two teams have met every season except one since 1908.
- ISU leads the all-time series at 106-64 and has the advantage in games played in Des Moines at 46-39.
- Iowa State has won the last two games in the series.
- The Cyclones defeated Drake last year in Ames, 91-43...the 48-point margin of victory was the largest in series history.
- Cyclone senior Scott Christopherson scored 29 points and tied a school-record for best shooting percentage in a game by making all 11 of his shots from the field last year.
- Melvin Ejim tallied 14 points on 7-of-8 shooting from the floor in the win last year...Ejim and Christopherson were a combined 18-of-19 from the field last year vs. Drake.
- In two career games vs. Drake, Christopherson is averaging 22.0 points and is shooting 80 percent from the field (16-20 FG) and from 3-point range (8-10 3FG).
- In the last ISU-Drake game played in Des Moines (2009), ISU's Lucca Staiger broke the school record for 3-pointers made in a game with 10, as ISU won 90-70 to end a three-game losing streak to the Bulldogs.
- ISU head coach Fred Hoiberg was 4-0 against Drake in his career with the Cyclones, averaging 21.5 points...he scored 32 points against Drake on Dec. 6, 1994.
- Many of the Drake and ISU players competed together as teammates in the summer Capital City League in Des Moines...Christopherson was named MVP of the league in 2011, and Ejim was the MVP of the league in 2010.
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