Iowa State Takes on Arkansas State Sunday

AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State women's basketball team (4-0, 0-0 Big 12) hosts Arkansas State (0-4, 0-0 Sun Belt) on Sunday, Nov. 27 at 2 p.m. Iowa State is looking for its first 5-0 start since the 2013-14 season when the Cyclones rattled off a school record 14-straight wins.

Who: Iowa State vs. Arkansas State
Where: Hilton Coliseum - Ames, Iowa
When: Sunday, Nov. 27 at 2 p.m.
Projected Starting Lineup: Seanna Johnson, Jadda Buckley, Meredith Burkhall, Bridget Carleton and TeeTee Starks
Radio: Cyclone Radio Network/Learfield
Talent: Rich Fellingham (PxP); Kelsey Bolte-Carper (color)
TV: Cyclones.tv

Cyclone Quick Hits

The Iowa State women's basketball team (4-0, 0-0 Big 12) is set to take on the Arkansas State (0-4, 0-0 Sun Belt) on Sunday, Nov. 27 at 2 p.m. in Hilton Coliseum. This is the first meeting between the Cyclones and Red Wolves. ISU is looking to go 5-0 for the first time since the 2013-14 season, when they rattled off a school-best 14-straight wins to start the season.
Redshirt junior Jadda Buckley earned her first Big 12 Player of the Week honor after averaging 21 points and 6.0 assists last week. The Mason City, Iowa native, shot 52 percent from the field and 50 percent from long range and was perfect from the charity stripe.
Seanna Johnson was named to the Preseason All-Big 12 team for the first time in her career and currently ranks 18th in school history in points (1,219), sixth in rebounds (836) and fifth in double-doubles (28).
Buckley is just 14 assists away from passing Megan Taylor for 10th all time in school history in career assists. She currently has 324 in her career and is the top returning point guard in the Big 12.
Iowa State ranks 13th in the nation in turnovers per game, averaging just 11.0 per contest. The Cyclones also rank in the top-50 nationally in turnover margin (5.67) (stats as of 11/21/16).
The Cyclones rank ninth in the nation in free throw percentage (81.9%). ISU led the nation in 2012-13 and 2013-14 at the charity stripe. Buckley is a perfect 16-of-16 from the line on the year and Johnson is shooting 84 percent (21-of-25) (stats as of 11/21/16).
Iowa State begins the 2016-17 season with the Big 12's top returners in points, rebounds and assists as Johnson ranked second last season in both points (17.0) and rebounds (9.4), while Buckley averaged 6.0 assists. The Cyclones are the only Big 12 school returning three student-athletes who averaged over 10.0 points per game last season (Johnson-17.0, Carleton- 12.0, Buckley-11.4).
Iowa State is the only Big 12 school to have three student athletes returning who were named to the first-team, second-team, honorable mention or defensive team in 2015-16. (Johnson (first-team), Buckley and Carleton (honorable mention).
The 2016-17 season marks the 22nd in the tenure of Bill Fennelly. Fennelly has led Iowa State to 16 NCAA Tournament appearances, which is tied with Oklahoma as the most of any Big 12 team since 1997. Fennelly boasts a 451-223 record at Iowa State and a 617-276 record in his 28-year career as a head coach. His 617 career wins lists him in the top-20 in the NCAA among active coaches.

Last Time Out

The Iowa State women's basketball team earned its fourth-straight win against the Savannah State Lady Tigers, 74-51. Iowa State was led by Seanna Johnson, who netted a game-high 16 points and eight rebounds. Bridget Carleton was the only other Cyclone in double figures with 11 points. Jadda Buckley led ISU in assists with seven.
Iowa State netted 11 triples on the evening, making 10 or more 3-pointers for the second-straight game.

Iowa State Team Quick Facts

Iowa State has 14 players on its roster from seven different states (Iowa, Texas, Minnesota, New York, Arizona, Wisconsin and Virginia) and four different countries (Canada, Germany, Sweden and Montenegro).
Iowa State returns four starters from last season in Johnson, Carleton, Buckley and Burkhall. In all, Iowa State returns 83 percent of its scoring, 70 percent of its rebounding and 92.7 percent of its assists for the 2015-16 campaign.

Streaks and Trends

Iowa State hit 200 3-pointers in a season for an NCAA record 13-straight years (2003-04-present). Iowa State has netted 30 3-pointers so far this season.
Seanna Johnson pulled in double-figure rebounds in 40 games in her career and 15 games last season. Johnson has also scored in double figures in 67 games in her career and all four games this season. She is riding a 13-game streak of scoring in double figures.
Johnson has started every game of her career, which puts her at 94-straight starts.
Johnson has had a double-doubles in 28 games in her career.
Jadda Buckley has dished five or more assists in 36 career games.
Buckley has netted double figures in 44 career games, and five of the last six games of her career.
The Cyclones hit at least five threes in 138 of the last 159 games, including every game last season and have knocked down 10 or more triples in the last two games.
Iowa State has hit a 3-pointer in 677-consecutive games. In that time (since Feb. 18, 1995), ISU has hit 5,261 threes. That is equal to 7.81 three-pointers per game for the last 21 years.
The Cyclones have finished in the upper half of the Big 12 in seven of the last eight seasons.
The Cyclones have made nine of the last 10 NCAA Tournaments, one of just 15 teams nationally to do so.
Iowa State has won 95-straight regular season non-conference games at Hilton Coliseum. The streak dates back to the 2003-04 season (Last loss: Washington (12/21/03)).

Scouting The Red Wolves

Arkansas State's 2016-17 team has seven true freshmen on the roster and graduated their entire starting five from the 2015-16 season.
Head coach Brian Boyer is one win away from reaching 300 in his career.
A-State won its regular season Sun Belt Conference championship in 2015-16 for the second time in three seasons.
The Red Wolves have just two seniors on their roster with Brittany Fowler and Dominique Oliver. Fowler and Oliver are tied for the team lead with 9.0 points per game.
A-State's all-time record is 231-148 in non-conference games.
Arkansas State won 25-straight home games before falling to Florida on Tuesday. It was the nation's fourth-longest streak.

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