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Iowa State University Athletics
Iowa State To Take On Cincinnati Sunday
11.21.2014 | Women's Basketball
AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State women's basketball team (2-0, 0-0 Big 12) returns to the court to take on the Cincinnati Bearcats (1-1, 0-0 AAC) on Sun., Nov. 23 at 1 p.m. at Hilton Coliseum. Iowa State looks to grab its 80th-consecutive regular season home non-conference win against the Bearcats.
Who: Iowa State vs. Cincinnati
Where: Sunday, Nov. 23 at 1 p.m.
Projected Starting Lineup: Brynn Williamson, Jadda Buckley, Seanna Johnson, Nikki Moody and Bryanna Fernstrom
Radio: Cyclone Radio Network/Learfield
Talent: Rich Fellingham (PxP), Molly Parrott (Color)
TV: Cyclones.tv
Live Stats: Live stats will be available at cyclones.com.
Live Blog: Patrick Tarbox, an assistant director for 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 Headlines
- The Cyclones host the Cincinnati Bearcats on Sun., Nov. 23 before traveling to Moraga, Calif. for a Thanksgving Tournament hosted by St. Mary's. This is the second meeting between the Cyclones and Bearcats as Iowa State downed Cincinnati 78-42 on the road last season. The Cyclones have also won 79-straight regular season non-conference games at Hilton Coliseum. The streak dates back to the 2003-04 season (Last loss: Washington (12/21/03)).
- A total of seven different Cyclones have reached double figures in Iowa State's first two games of the season (Kidd Blaskowksy, Jadda Buckley, Emily Durr, Bryanna Fernstrom, Seanna Johnson, Nikki Moody and Brynn Williamson).
- With freshman Bryanna Fernstrom earning this week's Big 12 Freshman of the Week award, Iowa State has now had seven different freshmen earn the honor over the last four seasons. No other Big 12 school has had more than two different freshmen receive a Big 12 Freshman of the Week award over that time span.
- The 2014-15 season marks the 20th in the tenure of Fennelly. Fennelly has led Iowa State to 15 NCAA Tournament appearances, which is the most of any Big 12 team since 1997. Fennelly boasts a 418-192 record at Iowa State and a 584-245 record in his 27-year career as a head coach. His 583 career wins lists him as 17th in the NCAA among active coaches.
- Iowa State currently leads the Big 12 in assist average with 22.5 dimes per contest. The Cyclones have assisted on a league-high 73.7 percent of its field goals.
- Senior Nikki Moody is just eight points shy of reaching the 1,000-point mark. Moody would be the 26th Cyclone in school history to achieve the feat.
- Moody is second in the nation in career assists (549) and third nationally in career assists per game (5.68). Moody ranks third in Iowa State history in career assists with 549, she trails the school record held by Lyndsey Medders by just 170. Moody also led the Cyclones in assists with 163 last season, becoming just the fifth Cyclone to lead ISU in assists in three-consecutive seasons.
- The Cyclones return three players who hit over 40 3-pointers last season with Williamson (66), Blaskowsky (55) and Moody (46). Iowa State finished 11th nationally in 3-pointers per game, knocking down 8.9 per contest. Iowa State has knocked down 22 3-pointers through its first two games for an average of 11.0 per contest.
- Over the last 19 seasons, no team in NCAA Division I has netted (4,767), attempted (13,356) or hit more 3-pointers per game (7.82) than the Cyclones. Over the last 19 seasons, Iowa State has also recorded the seventh-best 3-point percentage (35.7) in all of Division I. ISU's dominance from beyond the arc is unmatched and unprecedented.
- For the second-straight season Iowa State led the nation in free-throw percentage, shooting 80.4 percent from the charity stripe. Buckley ranked in the top-20 nationally in free-throw shooting, while Williamson also broke the single-season school record shooting 91.9 percent (57-62) from the line. The Cyclones led the nation in 2013-14 shooting 80.5 percent from the line. No team has ever led the nation three consecutive years.
- With the Cyclones appearance in last year's NCAA Tournament, they extended their streak to eight-straight appearances in the tournament. ISU is one of just 13 schools to make the last eight NCAA Tournaments.
Streaks and Trends
-Through just two games this season, seven different Cyclones have reached double-figure scoring (Fernstrom, Moody, Williamson, Johnson, Buckley, Durr and Blaskowsky).
- Three different Cyclones have also tallied five or more assists in a game with Williamson, Buckley and Moody all dishing more than five dimes in at least one game this season.
Iowa State has hit 200 3-pointers in a season for an NCAA record 11-straight years (2003-04-present).
- Durr has scored in double figures in each of her first two games as a Cyclone.
Williamson has drained a 3-pointer in 79 of 95 career games and had 55 games with multiple 3's.
- Johnson scored in double figures in eight of her last 11 contests. She has also pulled in double-digit rebounds in each of ISU's games this season.
- Moody has five or more assists in 62of 96 contests in her career.
- The Cyclones hit at least five threes in 86 of the last 97 games.
- Iowa State has hit a 3-pointer in 614 consecutive games. In that time (since Feb. 18, 1995), ISU has hit 4,781 threes. That is equal to 7.79 three-pointers per game for the last 20 years.
- ISU has had 11-consecutive winning seasons.
- The Cyclones have finished in the upper half of the Big 12 the last six seasons.
- The Cyclones have made the last eight NCAA Tournaments, one of just 13 teams nationally to do so.
- Iowa State has won 78-straight regular season non-conference games at Hilton Coliseum. The streak dates back to the 2003-04 season (Last loss: Washington (12/21/03)).
Last Time Out
- Iowa State took on instate foe Drake and defeated the Bulldogs for the fifth-straight time, 84-67.
- Iowa State was led by Moody who nearly had a triple-double with 18 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds.
- Johnson posted her second-consecutive game with double-digit rebounding with a game-high 12 rebounds. The Cyclones placed four in double figures with Buckley, Williamson and Durr joining Moody in double digits.
- Iowa State grabbed as much as a 28 point lead in the beginning of the second half.
- As a team, the Cyclones shot 46.2 percent (30-65) from the field and knocked down a season-high 14 3-pointers en route to a 2-0 record.
Scouting The Bearcats
- Cincinnati is 1-1 on the season after dropping a nail biter at UT-Martin where the Bearcats erased an 11-point second-half deficit.
- The Bearcats were selected to finish eighth in the American Athletic Conference by the league's coaches.
- The Bearcats finished the 2013-14 season ranked 25th nationally in scoring defense, allowing just 58.8 points per game. UC held nationally-ranked opponents UConn and Louisville more than 19 points below their season scoring average in meetings last season.
- Cincinnati has three players averaging double figures with Jasmine Whitfield (20.0), Marley Hill (18.0) and Makenzie Cann (11.5) leading the way.
- Head coach Jamelle Elliott is in her sixth season as the Bearcats coach. She owns a 63-90 record at Cincinnati.
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