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Iowa State University Athletics
Friday, November 10
Columbia, Mo
8:00 PM
Iowa State
at
Missouri
Cyclones Open Season Friday At Missouri
11.08.2017 | Men's Basketball
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AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State men's basketball team faces an old rival Friday when it travels to Missouri for its 2017-18 season opener.
Where: Columbia, Mo. - Mizzou Arena (15,061)
When:Â Friday, Nov. 10, 8Â p.m. (CDT)
Radio:Â Cyclone Radio Network
Talent:Â John Walters (PxP), Eric Heft (Analyst)
TV: SEC Network
Talent: Mike Morgan (PxP), Jimmy Dykes (Analyst); Myron Medcalf (Reporter)
Webcast: WatchESPN
Sirius/XM:Â NA/190
Live Stats:Â Cyclonestats.com
Game #1 - Missouri
• The Iowa State men's basketball team opens its 111th season and the third under the direction of head coach Steve Prohm when it faces Missouri Friday night...the Cyclones open the season away from Hilton Coliseum for just the second time in the last 23 seasons, both of which have come in Prohm's three seasons as coach.
• Iowa State and Missouri played every year except 1915 and 1927 in a 103-year stretch (1909-2012) prior to the Tigers leaving the Big 12 for the SEC in 2012...this will be the first meeting between the schools since...the 233-game series is ISU's third-longest in program history (Kansas-243; Nebraska-234).
#CycloneNotes
• ISU defeated Emporia State, 77-68, Sunday evening to win its 16th consecutive exhibition game...the Cyclones won despite shooting just 45.5 percent from the field and making just 5-of-20 shots behind the arc.
• 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.
• Prohm is 47-23 as head coach of the Cyclones and 151-52 as he enters his seventh season as a head coach...his .671 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.
• ISU has won 19 consecutive season openers, with the last loss coming to Northern Iowa in 1997.
• In the event Lindell Wigginton starts Friday night, as he did in the exhibition game, he would be the first Cyclone freshman to start in the season opener since Matt Thomas (2013)...he'd be the first to start a true road game since Barry Stevens & Paul Beene started for the Cyclones at MSU-Billings (1981).
• The Cyclones return just five players from last season's team, including just three that were in the regular rotation...statistically speaking, ISU has back just 17.9 percent of its scoring and 20.6 percent of the rebounding, the lowest totals since the 2010-11 season.
• Sophomore Solomon Young is the only player returning with any starting experience...Young started the final 12 games last season, helping the Cyclones go 10-2 in those games.
• Donovan Jackson and Nick Weiler-Babb are the only other returning rotation players...Jackson spent his first season in Ames providing a spark off the bench for the Cyclones...over the course of the season's final 16 games he averaged 8.1 points and shot 58.5 percent behind the arc...Weiler-Babb also came off the bench, scoring in double figures four times...both guards were buried behind a senior class of Monté Morris, Naz Mitrou-Long and Matt Thomas that scored a combined 4,128 career points.
• 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.
Iowa State-Missouri Series Notes
• Iowa State and Missouri rekindle an old Big Six/Seven/Eight/12 rivalry when they meet for the first time since 2012.
• This will be the 234th meeting between the schools, with Missouri owning a 149-84 edge in the series...the Tigers lead 85-21 in games played in Columbia...MU has won the last nine meetings with ISU's last win coming Jan. 16, 2008 in Ames (72-67)...six of the nine meetings were decided by single-digits...the Cyclones' last win in Columbia was in January of 2007.
• In series history, ISU and Mizzou have played 15 overtime games, including a four OT game on Jan. 13, 2001 in Columbia (MU, 112-109).
• The first time two teams from the same conference played in the NCAA Tournament in the same year was 1944 when ISU and Missouri from the Big Six were among the eight teams chosen...ISU advanced to the Final Four that season.
• Missouri assistant coach Cornell Mann was at Iowa State in the same role from 2011-15...ISU posted a 99-40 record in his time in Ames, advancing to four NCAA Tournaments and winning a pair of Big 12 Tournament titles.
• Iowa State's Lindell Wigginton and Missouri's Terrence Phillips were teammates at Oak Hill Academy in 2014-15...they finished 47-1.
• Weiler-Babb is the only player on the Cyclone roster to have played Missouri (as a freshman at Arkansas)...he played just four total minutes in two meetings.
• This will be Steve Prohm's first time facing Missouri and its coach Cuonzo Martin.
• ISU is 108-176 all-time against teams currently in the SEC.
Last Time Out: Cyclones Beat Emporia State In Final Tuneup
• Iowa State overcame ice-cold shooting (45.5 FG% and 25.0 3FG%) to hold off Emporia State in its only exhibition game prior to the regular season...Jackson led the Cyclones with 20 points, including ISU's final 13 points of the first half, and freshman Lindell Wigginton chipped in 18 points (8-10 FT).
• Jakolby Long (11) and Nick Weiler-Babb (12) were also in double figures for the Cyclones...Long's 11 points all came in the second half.
• Weiler-Babb posted a strong overall game, adding six rebounds, five steals and four assists to his 12 points.
• ISU had just seven players available...Hans Brase (knee) was a late scratch as he continues to recover from surgery, while Cameron Lard and Terrence Lewis were held out as coaches decisions.
• The Cyclones got to the line 36 times (22 makes) in the game, led by Wigginton's 8-10 performance.
Up Next: Milwaukee
• ISU returns home to host Milwaukee Monday, Nov. 13 as it opens its 47th season at Hilton Coliseum...the Cyclones own a 4-0 edge in the all-time series, with all four games being played at Hilton Coliseum.
• The Cyclones have won 19 consecutive home season openers.
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