ISU Looks To Keep Streak Alive When It Hosts TCU

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AMES, Iowa - Iowa State (16-9, 8-5 Big 12) looks to win its third-straight Big 12 game when it hosts TCU (17-8, 6-6 Big 12) Saturday at Hilton Coliseum.

Where: Ames, Iowa - Hilton Coliseum (14,384)
When: Saturday, Feb. 18, 5 p.m. (CST)
Radio: Cyclone Radio Network/TuneIn Radio App
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TV: ESPNews
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Game #26-TCU
• Iowa State looks for its first three-game win streak in Big 12 play this season when it hosts TCU...ISU enters Saturday's game 9-3 at Hilton Coliseum this season with three games remaining at home...since 2011-12, ISU is 19-3 at home in the month of February.
#CycloneNotes
• ISU ranks among KenPom.com's top 35 in both adjusted offensive efficiency (34) and defensive efficiency (27)...in the KenPom era (since 2001-02), its the best defensive efficiency since 2005 (10)...the Cyclones are No. 26 in KenPom's rankings.
• ISU is among the nation's top-20 teams in steals per game (8.4)...Deonte Burton has 50 steals after recording 24 steals as a junior.
• Monté Morris has proven himself as one of the nation's most consistent performers and best point guards...he is first nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (5.80) and is also the nation's active career leader (4.70)...only seven times in NCAA Division I men's basketball history has a player led the nation in any stat category three times in their career like Morris is on pace to do...Morris has two turnovers in the last six games...he ranks among the league's top-10 in scoring, assisting, steals, free-throw percentage and assist-to-turnover ratio in league play.
• In Big 12 play, Morris has taken his ball control to another level...he is averaging one turnover every 49.7 minutes he's played...since 1996-97, no Division I player has averaged 34 minutes, 5.0 assists and fewer than or equal to 1.0 turnovers per game as Morris is doing...Morris, who broke Jeff Hornacek's career assist record, is two steals shy of his career mark.
• Morris will be making his 112th consecutive start, breaking the school record for most consecutive starts (Ron Harris, 1981-84)...in his 111 starts, Morris has had 34 games without a turnover.
• Matt Thomas and Nazareth Mitrou-Long have been shooting it at a high clip this season, but especially in the last seven games...in that stretch, Thomas (27) and Mitrou-Long (22) have combined to make 49 threes (7.0 per game) at a 50 percent clip.
• In the last four games, Mitrou-Long has hit 17-of-36 threes, Thomas is 11-for-23 and Deonte Burton is 10-for-18 for a combined 49.4 percent behind the arc
• Burton leads ISU in steals (50) & blocks (37) this season and is aiming to become the first Cyclone to lead the team in both categories since Royce White (2011-12)...only Lafester Rhodes (87-88) has recorded 40 blocks and 40 steals in the same season.
• Freshman Solomon Young has started the last two games for the Cyclones...he posted the best game of his career at K-State, leading the Cyclones with 18 points and 12 rebounds, both career highs, for his first double-double...as a starter, Young is averaging 13 points and 7 rebounds, while shooting 80 percent from the field (12-15 FG).
• ISU continues to rank among the nation's top teams in taking care of the basketball...the Cyclones average 10.2 turnovers per game, which leads the Big 12 and is seventh nationally...ISU's turnover percentage of 14.0 is No. 1 nationally and its turnover margin (+5.1) is fourth nationally...ISU has had fewer turnovers than its opponents in 21 of 25 games.
• In Big 12 action, ISU is leading the league making 10.1 3-pointers per game and third in the league shooting 40.2 percent...Thomas is shooting 48.7 percent behind the arc against conference foes, which ranks third...Thomas and Mitrou-Long have each made 38 threes in conference play...the most threes by an ISU player in Big 12 play was 51 by Dedric Willoughby (96-97).

Iowa State Quick Hitters
• Iowa State has sold out 28 of the last 32 games at Hilton Coliseum...ISU is 23-5 at Hilton Coliseum under Prohm.
• ISU has been to a school-record five consecutive NCAA Tournaments...the Cyclones have made two Sweet 16 appearance in the last three seasons...ISU seeks to become the first school from the state of Iowa to reach six consecutive NCAA Tournaments.
• The Cyclones have won two of the last three Big 12 Tournament titles.
• Wins By Big 12 Teams Since 2011-12: Kansas 168, Baylor 146, Iowa State 139.
• ISU has won 20 games the last five seasons...Steve Prohm has won at least 20 games in each of his five seasons as a head coach...among current Big 12 coaches, only he, Texas coach Shaka Smart and TCU's Jamie Dixon accomplished that in their first five years as a head coach.
• Iowa State is one of 29 schools to win 20+ games the last five seasons...only 13 teams in the nation's top-six conferences (Big East, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC) have won 20+ games five consecutive seasons.
• The Cyclones have won at least 10 league games in each of the last five seasons, which is a school record.
• The Cyclones have won 41 of their last 47 games at home, including 22 of 27 league games.
• ISU has led the Big 12 in scoring the last four seasons, joining Kansas (2000-03) as the only teams to lead the league four consecutive seasons.
• The Cyclones are 30-11 under Prohm when committing fewer turnovers than their opponent...ISU has had fewer turnovers than its opponent in 21 of 25 games this season, including nine games with fewer than 10 miscues.
• Morris has 696 assists and 148 turnovers in 130 career games...ISU is 58-20 when Morris has at least five assists.
• Morris has 13 career games with 10 or more assists...his assist-to-turnover ratio in those games is 8.7 (139 assists/16 turnovers)...the rest of the Big 12 players have a combined eight 10-assist games.
• ISU is 8-0 this season and 18-3 under Prohm when outrebounding its opponent.
• ISU has held five of its opponents to 59 points or less this season after doing so just three times in 35 games last season.
• ISU is ranked 328th nationally with just 410 free throws attempted (16.4 per game)...its opponents are averaging just 15.9 free throw attempts per contest.
• ISU's three starting guards (Morris, Thomas, Mitrou-Long) are shooting a combined 81.0 percent from the FT line (128-158).
• In games which he hits a 3-pointer, Donovan Jackson is averaging 10.0 points and shooting 53.7 percent (44-82) from the field and 55.4 percent (31-56) from 3-point range...Jackson has hit 11-of-20 three-pointers (55.0 percent) the last six games.
• Entering the season, 66.1 percent of Mitrou-Long's made field goals were 3-pointers...this season that number is 48.9 percent...Mitrou-Long is shooting 63.4 percent on 2-point field goals.
• Morris is currently leading the Big 12 with 5.8 assists per game...he is trying to become the first player to lead the league three consecutive seasons since Doug Gottlieb (Oklahoma State) did it from 1998-2000.
• In Big 12 play, Morris is averaging one turnover every 49.7 minutes played...in the second half of Big 12 games, Morris has just two turnovers in 248 minutes played.
• Morris and Mitrou-Long average a combined 31.5 points, third-most among Big 12 teammates.
• Morris is the second player in school history to record four 100-assist seasons (Gary Thompkins, 1985-88).
• Morris is first nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio at 5.80...Morris has the 2nd and fourth best single season marks in NCAA history and is trying to take the record back (Casey Benson, Oregon, 4.88)...in Big 12 Conference games, Morris owns an 7.9 a/to ratio...next best in the league is KU's Devonte' Graham at 2.5.
• In his career, Morris has accounted for 3,239 points via scoring and assisting (24.9 ppg).
• Only Kansas' Frank Mason (35.7) is playing more minutes than Morris (34.9).
• Morris has the second-most wins in ISU history having played in 92 career wins...Georges Niang is first at 98 wins played in, while Mitrou-Long and Thomas have played in 90 wins each.
• Iowa State has 11 games with 10 or more steals...among the top-6 leagues, only West Virginia (13) has more.
• Mitrou-Long (230) and Thomas (230) have surpassed 200 career 3-pointers made...this season, they have combined to make 133, the most among Big 12 teammates.
• Burton is averaging 2.0 steals per game...the last ISU player to average 2.0+ spg was Curtis Stinson in 2006.
• Burton has made as many threes (28) this year as he did the first three seasons combined.
• Burton's last six games: 15.7 ppg, 6.7 rpg, 3.0 apg, 3.2 spg, 1.8 bpg.
• Burton and South Carolina's Sindarius Thornwell are the only two players nationally averaging 14 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 2.0 spg and 1.0 bpg.
• Iowa State is the only team with three players ranked in the top 10 of the Big 12 in scoring.
• Mitrou-Long is shooting a career-best 47 percent from the field (previous high: 44.9 percent in 2014-15).

Last Time Out - Young's Big Night Leads ISU Past K-State
• ISU shot 60 percent from the field in the first half and got a big night from Young to earn back-to-back road wins at Kansas State for the first time since 2000 and 2001...the Cyclones beat the Wildcats, 87-79, behind Young's first career double-double of 18 points and 12 rebounds...Young was making his second career start.
• The Cyclones outrebounded K-State, 32-31...it was ISU's first game outrebounding a Big 12 foe this season.
• Young was the fifth different Cyclone to record a double-double this season.
• Five Cyclones scored between 14 and 18 points: Young (18), Burton (17), Mitrou-Long (16), Morris (15), Thomas (14).
• The Cyclones have won four consecutive and six of the last seven games against the Wildcats.

Iowa State-TCU Series Notes
• Iowa State and TCU are meeting for the 16th time in series history and the 10th time as Big 12 foes...the Cyclones hold a 9-6 edge in the series, including 5-1 in games played at Hilton Coliseum...ISU's only loss in Ames came in 1982 (74-66).
• ISU has won eight of the last nine meetings...in 2014, Melvin Ejim scored a Big 12 record 48 points against the Horned Frogs.
• In the first meeting this season, TCU snapped an eight-game losing streak to the Cyclones with an 84-77 win in Fort Worth...Mitrou-Long (19) and Jackson (16) led the Cyclones...TCU shot 56.9 percent from the floor.
• Steve Prohm is 2-1 against TCU and 0-1 against Jamie Dixon.
• TCU is one of four Big 12 schools that Iowa State has a series edge with: Baylor (17-15), Texas Tech (17-13) and West Virginia (5-4).
• ISU is 361-553 all-time against current Big 12 schools.

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