Preview: Cyclones Open NCAA Tournament With Ohio State

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AMES, Iowa - Sixth-seeded Iowa State makes its 20th NCAA Tournament appearance Friday when it faces 11th-seeded Ohio State as part of the Midwest Region in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Matchup: No. 24 Iowa State (23-11, 9-9 Big 12) vs. Ohio State (19-14, 8-12 Big Ten)
Where: Tulsa, Okla. - BOK Center (17,996)
When: Friday, March 22, approx. 8:50 p.m. (CST)
Radio: Cyclone Radio Network/TuneIn Radio/Westwood One
CRN Talent: John Walters (PxP), Eric Heft (Analyst)
TV: TBS
Talent: Brad Nessler (PxP), Steve Lavin (Analyst); Jim Jackson (Analyst); Evan Washburn (reporter)
Webcast: March Madness on Demand
Sirius/XM/Internet: 137/203/973 (internet)
Live Stats: ncaa.com

WORTH NOTING
1. Iowa State enters the tournament with a 23-11 record after winning the Big 12 Championship last weekend in Kansas City...the Cyclones defeated three NCAA Tournament qualifiers (Baylor, Kansas State, Kansas) to earn the league's automatic bid for the fourth time in the last six years...ISU, Kentucky and Villanova are the only schools in the nation's top-6 leagues to win four conference tournaments in the last six years.
2. Marial Shayok was named the Big 12 Tournament's Most Outstanding Player (18 ppg)...Lindell Wigginton (14 ppg) and Michael Jacobson (9.7 ppg, 9.3 rpg) were also on the all-tournament team.
3. Shayok's eight NCAA Tournament games played in ties for the sixth-most among players that made the Big Dance this season.
4. Tyrese Haliburton was 11-for-15 from the field and 6-for-9 behind the arc in the Big 12 Tournament.
5. Iowa State has 10 more wins than it did last season.

LAST TIME OUT: CYCLONES BEAT KANSAS TO WIN BIG 12 TOURNAMENT
• Iowa State led for more than 36 minutes on its way to a convincing 78-66 win against Kansas in the finals of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship...ISU was led by Wigginton's 17 points off the bench, while Shayok (15), Jacobson (14) and Haliburton (11) also reached double-digits.
• The Cyclones locked down defensively, holding KU to just 39.4 percent shooting, including 3-of-18 from behind the arc...the Cyclones held Big 12 Newcomer of the Year Dedric Lawson to just 8-of-21 shooting...ISU had nine steals and seven blocks in beating the Jayhawks for the second time in three meetings this season...both of ISU's wins were by double-figures.
• Weiler-Babb finished with nine points, eight rebounds, five assists and three steals against the Jayhawks.

IOWA STATE-OHIO STATE SERIES NOTES
• Iowa State is 0-6 all-time against Ohio State (0-1 in Ames, 0-2 in Columbus, 0-3 at neutral sites).
• ISU has faced Ohio State twice in the NCAA Tournament, falling to the Buckeyes 75-64 in 1985 and 78-75 in 2013.
• In 1985, Iowa State ended a 41-year NCAA Tournament drought and made its return to the Big Dance to face Ohio State...ironically, the game was also played in Tulsa, Okla...the game was played at the Mabee Center on the campus of Oral Roberts University.
• In the last game between the teams, Ohio State won a close one, defeating ISU, 78-75 in the round of 32 of the NCAA Tournament in Dayton...Aaron Craft made the game-winning 3-point shot with one second left in the game.
• Ohio State Athletics Director Gene Smith was the AD at Iowa State from 1993-2000.
• ISU is 1-1 against the Big Ten this season, defeating Illinois (84-68) and falling to Iowa (98-84).
• This will be Steve Prohm's first meeting with Ohio State and head coach Chris Holtmann...Prohm is 3-2 all-time against Big Ten teams.

ISU NCAA TOURNAMENT HISTORY
• Iowa State is playing in its 20th NCAA Tournament in school history as a No. 6 seed in Tulsa, Oklahoma as part of the Midwest Region.
• Iowa State is 19-19 all-time in the NCAA Tournament...Steve Prohm is the seventh coach to lead Iowa State to the NCAA Tournament and the fifth to have multiple NCAA appearances (Johnny Orr, Tim Floyd, Larry Eustachy, Fred Hoiberg, Steve Prohm).
• Iowa State has made the tournament in seven of the last eight seasons, one of just 15 teams to make that claim.
• Iowa State is a No. 6 seed for the second time in school history...the only other time the Cyclones were a 6-seed was in 1997...ISU advanced to the Sweet 16 that season, defeating Illinois State and Cincinnati in Auburn Hills, Michigan before falling to UCLA in overtime in San Antonio...the highest seed ISU has ever earned is a No. 2 seed (2000 and 2001).
• Iowa State is 0-4 all-time against No. 1 seeds (Michigan State, 2000; North Carolina, 2005; Kentucky, 2012, Virginia, 2016)...three of the four teams were the number one overall seeds and went on to win the national title with all three games being played in the opponent's home state.
• ISU is 11-7 all-time when playing in the Midwest Region.
• The farthest the Cyclones have advanced in the NCAA Tournament is the Final Four in 1944.
• ISU, which was one of eight teams to qualify in 1944, won its first game vs. Pepperdine to advance to the semifinals.
• The farthest Iowa State has advanced in the NCAA Tournament since the current 64/65/68-team field, which began in 1985, is the Elite Eight in 2000.
• Iowa State has advanced to the Sweet Sixteen five times (1986, 1997, 2000, 2014, 2016) in the modern era.
• The Cyclones have won their first game in 10 of their last 12 NCAA Tournament appearances.
• ISU has had two players lead the NCAA Tournament in scoring average (minimum three games played) during their respective careers...Dedric Willoughby averaged 24.7 ppg in 1997 (three games) and Marcus Fizer led all players in 2000 with a 20.0 ppg average in four games played.
• Individual NCAA Tournament records: Points- 34 by Dedric Willoughby (vs. UCLA in 1997), 34 by Lafester Rhodes (vs. Georgia Tech in 1988) 34 by Dustin Hogue (vs. UCONN in 2014); Rebounds- 20 by Jared Homan (vs. North Carolina in 2005); Assists- 11 by Jamaal Tinsley (vs. UCLA in 2000); Blocks- 8 by Kelvin Cato (vs. Illinois State in 1997); Field Goals- 15 by Dustin Hogue (vs. UCONN in 2014); 3-Pointers- 8 by Dedric Willoughby (vs. UCLA in 1997).
• 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 8 teams chosen.

ISU TOURNAMENT TIDBITS
• Iowa State has a 10-6 record vs. eight teams in the 2019 NCAA Tournament: North Dakota State (1-0), Iowa (0-1), Kansas (2-1), Baylor (1-2), Kansas State (2-1), Texas Tech (1-1), Mississippi (1-0), Oklahoma (2-0).
• Eight of ISU's 22 opponents advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
• ISU is 2-0 in games played in Oklahoma this season, defeating Oklahoma State in Stillwater (69-63) and Oklahoma in Norman (75-74).
• Iowa State is 1-2 all-time in games played in Tulsa, splitting a pair of games vs. Tulsa (W, 72-52 on Dec. 15, 1956; L, 79-69 on Dec. 21, 1973) and losing to Ohio State (75-64 on March 14, 1985) in the NCAA Tournament.
• Steve Prohm is one of seven Iowa State coaches (Louis Menze, Johnny Orr, Tim Floyd, Larry Eustachy, Wayne Morgan, Fred Hoiberg) to lead the Cyclones into the NCAA Tournament...he joins Orr, Floyd and Hoiberg as the only coaches to lead three Cyclone teams to the NCAA Tournament.
• Prohm is coaching in his fourth NCAA Tournament, owning a 4-3 record in seven games...he is 1-1 at Murray State (2012: W, Colorado State; L, Marquette) and 3-1 at Iowa State (2016: W, Iona; W, Arkansas-Little Rock; L, Virginia: 2017, W, Nevada; L, Purdue).
• ISU has three players returning that have played in the NCAA Tournament: Nick Weiler-Babb (2 games), Marial Shayok (8 games at Virginia) and Solomon Young (2 games)...Young will not play in this tournament as a medical redshirt (groin).

ISU BIG 12 TOURNAMENT RECAP
• The Cyclones became the first 5-seed (and lowest overall seed) to win the Big 12 Tournament, defeating 4-seed Baylor, 1-seed Kansas State and 3-seed Kansas in the finals to claim their fourth title in the last six years...ISU and Kentucky are the only Power-5 schools with four titles in the last six seasons.
• ISU improved to 5-0 all-time in Big 12 Championship games...the Cyclones are 12-2 in their last 14 Big 12 Tournament games.
• Prohm is now the sixth coach in Big 12 history to win multiple conference tournament titles (Roy Williams, Bill Self, Kelvin Sampson, Eddie Sutton, Fred Hoiberg).
• Marial Shayok became ISU's fifth Big 12 all-tournament team Most Outstanding Player, and seventh overall conference tournament MOP...Shayok was joined on the all-tournament team by Lindell Wigginton and Michael Jacobson on the all-tournament team, giving ISU a total of 24 all-tournament honorees (15 in the Big 12 era).
• ISU's 12-point win against KU (78-66) matched its largest in a Big 12 title game (2000 vs. Oklahoma).
• Shayok led the Cyclones with 18 points per game in the tournament...Wigginton averaged 14 points.
• The Cyclones held their opponents to 39.1 percent shooting from the field and just 28.6 percent shooting behind the arc in the three wins...ISU also outrebounded its opponents (36.3-35.0) for the weekend.

COMPLETE GAME NOTES
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