No. 8 Iowa State vs. St. Thomas Primer

Who: No. 8 Iowa State (3-0, 0-0 Big 12) vs. St. Thomas (3-0, 0-0 Summit)
Where: Hilton Coliseum – Ames, Iowa
When: Thursday, November 14, 2024 – 6:30 p.m. CT

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No. 8 Iowa State welcomes St. Thomas (MN) to Hilton Coliseum on Thursday night for midweek hoops action. The Cyclones are searching for their seventh straight win at home and their second all-time against the Tommies.

INSIDE THE SERIES
Overall: ISU leads 1-0
In Ames: N/A
Fennelly vs. St. Thomas: 1-0

FOUR THINGS
2 – Iowa State had two players named to the Naismith Trophy Women's College Player of the Year Watchlist earlier this week. Audi Crooks and Emily Ryan were two of 50 women's collegiate basketball players selected to the watchlist. It is the second time Ryan has been featured on the top 50 list and the first time Crooks has been added.

7 – Emily Ryan has finished every game in her career with at least one assist. Through 122 games, she has finished with at least four assists and no turnovers in seven contests.

30 – Head coach Bill Fennelly is in his 30^th season at the helm for Iowa State. Fennelly is tied with Tom Izzo (Michigan State, men's basketball) as the longest tenured Power 4 basketball coach. Fennelly is also Iowa State's all-time winningest coach with 614 wins as head coach of the Cyclones.

930 – The Cyclones have made at least one 3-point field goal in an NCAA women's record 930 consecutive games, a streak which encapsulates the entirety of the Bill Fennelly Era at Iowa State.

LAST TIME OUT
Iowa State downed Southern on Sunday afternoon in Hilton Coliseum, 84-56. While the Cyclones missed their first field goal attempts, they went on to make five of their next six while holding the Jaguars scoreless, jumping out to a 23-13 lead at the end of the first quarter. ISU shot over 50 percent from the floor and nearly 39 percent from 3-point range, sinking 12 triples.

Audi Crooks and Addy Brown each recorded double-doubles, the second time in their careers they have both combined for double digit point and rebound totals in the same game. Brown led ISU with 21 points while Crooks nabbed a game-high 11 boards. Emily Ryan passed out 10 assists, moving her all-time record total to 805.

HILTON MAGIC
The Cyclones have been phenomenal at home during Bill Fennelly's tenure, compiling a 384-82 record (.824) in Hilton Coliseum, including a 189-9 (.955) mark against regular-season non-conference opponents. Iowa State has gone undefeated at home three times, most recently during the 2004-05 season.

The Cyclones finished the 2023-24 regular season 13-2 at home and 7-1 in Big 12 play. Iowa State's 16 wins at Hilton Coliseum in 2021-22 was tied for the third-most in a season in school history.

ISU's 5-0 non-con home record in 2022- 23 marked the 22nd time Iowa State has gone undefeated at home in regular season non-conference contests under head coach Bill Fennelly.

EMILY RYAN DISH-TRIBUTION CENTER
Emily Ryan is one of Iowa State's most prolific point guards, recording top 10 career marks in assists, steals and blocks while becoming the program's 34^th 1,000 point scorer in March 2023. The Claflin, Kansas native has recorded 805 assists and holds the all-time best mark in program history. She is the active NCAA women's basketball leader for assists with her career total, trailed by Kentucky's Georgia Amoore with 674 dimes.

The 5-11 guard ahs recorded a career assist/turnover ration of 1.98. Over 122 games, she has tallied single-game assists at every mark, 1-17 and has never finished a game with less than one assist. Ryan is 28 assists from entering the NCAA Division I all-time Top 30 and 134 dimes from the all-time Top 10.

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Players Mentioned

Addy Brown

Audi Crooks

Emily Ryan

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