2016-17 Men's Basketball Season Recap

AMES, Iowa - Iowa State went 24-11 during the 2016-17 season, Steve Prohm's second season at the school. The Cyclones tied for second place in the Big 12 Conference, finishing 12-6 overall and eventually winning their third Big 12 Tournament title in the last four seasons. ISU advanced to the NCAA Tournament for a school-record sixth consecutive season, winning a game in the tourney for the fifth time in that span.

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• In Steve Prohm's second season at the helm of the Iowa State men's basketball program, the Cyclones went 24-11 overall and finished in a tie for second place in the Big 12 Conference (12-6)...playing as the four-seed, the Cyclones beat Oklahoma State, TCU and West Virginia to win their third Big 12 Tournament title in the last four seasons...ISU advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the sixth consecutive season, earning a five seed...ISU has the first basketball program from the State of Iowa, regardless of division, to reach the tournament six seasons in a row...ISU's 24 wins tied for the fifth-most in school history.
• Prohm is 47-23 as head coach of the Cyclones, matching Tim Floyd and Larry Eustachy for the most wins by an ISU coach in their first two seasons...Prohm and Floyd are the only ISU coaches to lead their team to the NCAA Tournament in first two seasons as well...Prohm is now 151-52 (.744) in six seasons as a head coach, giving him the seventh-best winning percentage among active NCAA coaches with at least five years of experience...he has averaged 25.2 wins per season.
• ISU has won at least 20 games overall and 10 Big 12 games in each of the last six seasons...ISU and KU are the only Big 12 schools with at least 10 league wins the last six seasons...ISU was No. 16 in the final AP Top-25, making it one of nine schools ranked in final poll the last four seasons.
• ISU finished the season winning 11 of its final 14 games...the run started with an OT win at No. 3 Kansas, which snapped the Jayhawks 51-game win streak at Allen Fieldhouse...ISU hit a school-record 18 threes in the win.
• The Cyclones had four players earn All-Big 12 honors, matching Kansas for the most players in the Big 12 on either the first, second, third or honorable mention lists...Monté Morris (first team), Nazareth Mitrou-Long (second), Deonte Burton (third) and Matt Thomas (honorable mention) were recognized...in the last two seasons, ISU and Kansas lead the league with nine honorees among those groups.
• Morris earned All-America honors from a number of outlets, including second-team accolades from CBSSports.com and Basketball Times...he was also named the Big 12 Tournament's Most Outstanding Player, the third Cyclone to earn the honor in the last four seasons... Morris led the Cyclones with 16.4 points and 6.2 assists...he is the only player nationally to average 16.0 ppg, 6.0 apg, 4.0 rpg and fewer than 2.0 turnovers per game...he broke ISU career records for assists (768) & steals (225).
• As was the case his entire career, Morris was the nation's best at taking care of the basketball...this season, he broke the NCAA single-season (5.17) and career record (4.65)...he is just the eighth player in NCAA Division I history to lead the nation in a stat category three seasons in a career...Morris finished his career with 48 games without a turnover.
• ISU was one of the nation's top 3-point shooting teams, finishing 15th nationally in 3-point FG percentage (.400) and 16th in 3-Point Field Goals Made Per Game (9.8)...the Cyclones led the Big 12 in 3-point shooting for the fifth time in the last seven seasons and its 344 makes were the second-most in school history...Mitrou-Long (98) and Thomas (89) connected to hit 187 three-pointers in 2016-17, the most by any Cyclone duo in a single season...Thomas was sixth nationally shooting 44.5 percent behind the arc.
• For just the second time in school history, Iowa State had three players with 500 points scored in a season: Morris (575), Mitrou-Long (530) and Burton (527), joining the 2014 trio of DeAndre Kane, Melvin Ejim and Georges Niang as the only seasons with three players to score 500 points.
• It wasn't just Morris taking care of the ball for the Cyclones, it was a team effort...ISU led the Big 12 and was seventh nationally in turnovers per game, committing a school record of just 10.1 miscues per game...the Cyclones were ninth in turnover margin (+3.9)...ISU had fewer turnovers than its opponents in 27 of 35 games.

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2016-17 Men's Basketball Season Recap

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2016-17 Men's Basketball Season Recap

Players Mentioned

Deonte Burton

Nazareth Mitrou-Long

Georges Niang

Matt Thomas

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