Iowa State Opens Home Slate Monday Against Milwaukee

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AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State men's basketball team returns to Hilton Coliseum for its home opener Monday evening against Milwaukee. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Where: Ames, Iowa - Hilton Coliseum (14,384)
When: Monday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m. (CDT)
Radio: Cyclone Radio Network
Talent: John Walters (PxP), Eric Heft (Analyst)
TV: Cyclones.tv
Talent: John Walters (PxP), Eric Heft (Analyst)
Webcast: Cyclones.tv
Sirius/XM: NA/NA
Live Stats: Cyclonestats.com

Game #2 - Milwaukee
• The Iowa State men's basketball team welcomes Horizon League member Milwaukee to Hilton Coliseum for its home opener...this is ISU's only home game in its first five games this season...this is the first time since the 1999-2000 season that the Cyclones have played at home just once in the season's first five games.
• Iowa State has won its last 19 home openers...the last loss came to Northern Iowa in 1997.
#CycloneNotes
• ISU dropped its season opener at Missouri, 74-59, Friday night... Nick Weiler-Babb scored all 14 of his points in the second half to lead the Cyclones in scoring for the first time in his career...Zoran Talley Jr. added 11 points and Lindell Wigginton had 10 points in their Cyclone debuts...it was Talley Jr.'s 32nd career collegiate game scoring in double figures.
• Weiler-Babb (37) played the first 30-minute game of his career and Solomon Young (33) matched his career high for minutes played as Prohm experimented with a number of different lineups.
• Wigginton became the 14th Cyclone rookie since 1974 to start a season opener and score 10 points...he was the first ISU freshman to start the season opener since Matt Thomas (2013-14) and first to do it on the road since Barry Stevens and Paul Beene (1981-82).
• Steve Prohm is 47-24 as head coach of the Cyclones and 151-53 in his seventh season as a head coach...his .662 winning percentage at ISU leaves him just percentage points shy of Fred Hoiberg (.673) on top of the list...Prohm has won at least 20 games in each of his first six seasons leading a program.
• The Cyclones are looking to advance to the NCAA Tournament for the seventh consecutive season after finishing 24-11 overall and 12-6 in the Big 12 in 2016-17 and making the second round of the NCAA Tournament...it was the fifth time in the last six seasons that ISU won a game in the tournament.
• Sophomore Solomon Young owns ISU's longest streak of consecutive starts at 13 games...grad transfer Jeff Beverly has started all 68 games in his career at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, UTSA and Iowa State.
• Donovan Jackson hit 2-of-4 threes against Missouri to improve his career percentage to 45.5 percent behind the arc...among the top-6 leagues in college basketball, Jackson is one of just five players with 40 or more threes made at a 45 percent clip (Keyshawn Woods, Wake Forest; Kyle Guy, Virginia; Sam Hauser and Markus Howard, Marquette).
• ISU went just 6-for-19 behind the arc at Missouri, with Jackson, Weiler-Babb and Wigginton connecting on 6-of-10 attempts.
• ISU's roster has seven newcomers (most since 2013-14, 8), a tally that includes: Three grad transfers, two sit-out transfers and two freshmen...ISU had just eight players available against Missouri with two players sitting out in Hans Brase (Knee) and Cameron Lard (Coaches Decision - Did Not Travel).

Iowa State-Milwaukee Series Notes
• Iowa State and Milwaukee are meeting for the fifth time, with Iowa State owning a 4-0 edge in the series...all four meetings have been played at Hilton Coliseum.
• Iowa State has two Milwaukee natives on its roster in Donovan Jackson and Terrence Lewis...since the 2010-11 season, eight different Cyclones have called Milwaukee home (Calvin Godfrey, Diante Garrett, Korie Lucious, Jameel McKay, Deonte Burton, Darrell Bowie, Jackson and Lewis).
• Weiler-Babb is the only player on the Cyclone roster to have played Milwaukee (as a freshman at Arkansas)...he played just four minutes, scoring two points.
• This will be Steve Prohm's first time facing Milwaukee and head coach Pat Baldwin.
• ISU is 10-3 all-time against teams currently in the Horizon League

Last Time Out: Cold Shooting Dooms Cyclones At Missouri
• Iowa State struggled on the offensive end in the first half, shooting just 31.3 percent as a team, and was unable to overcome a 14-point halftime deficit as it fell, 74-59, to Missouri in the season opener in Columbia.
• Weiler-Babb scored a team and career-high 14 points, all of which came in the second half, to lead three Cyclones in double figures...Zoran Talley Jr. came off the bench to score 11 points and Lindell Wigginton tallied 10 points.
• Four of the eight Cyclones to play were making their Cyclone debut.
• Young had a team-best eight rebounds...his fourth career game with eight or more boards.

Up Next: Appalachian State (Puerto Rico Tip-off At Myrtle Beach)
• ISU meets Appalachian State Thursday at 4:30 p.m. (CDT) in the opening round of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off At Myrtle Beach...the Cyclones will face either Tulsa or Western Michigan in the second game, with South Carolina, Illinois State, Boise State and a Tim Floyd-coached UTEP squad making up the other half of the bracket.
• The tournament was moved from Puerto Rico to South Carolina after Hurricane Maria severely damaged the area...this year's tournament will be played at the HTC Center on the campus of Coastal Carolina.

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