No. 8 Iowa State vs. Drake Primer

Who: No. 8 Iowa State (4-1, 0-0 Big 12) vs. Drake (2-2, 0-0 MVC)
Where: Hilton Coliseum – Ames, Iowa
When: Sunday, November 24, 2024 – 2:00 p.m. CT

The Links
WATCH: ESPN+
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LISTEN: Cyclone Radio Network – Varsity App or Radio Affiliates
PxP: Noah Wolf Analyst: Jamie Steyer Johnson
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MEDIA CENTER

No. 8 Iowa State returns home to Hilton Coliseum on Sunday to take on in-state foe Drake. The Cyclones are seeking their fifth-straight home win of the season and eighth in a row dating back to last season's 96-93 double overtime win over then-No. 7 Kansas State (Feb. 14).

INSIDE THE SERIES
Overall: ISU leads 32-30
In Ames: ISU leads 19-9
Fennelly vs. Drake: 19-9

FOUR THINGS
2 – Iowa State had two players named to the Naismith Trophy Women's College Player of the Year Watchlist earlier this season. 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 seven games in her career with at least four assists and no turnovers. Ryan has completed the feat twice this season. She has recorded a 1.99 assist/turnover ratio through 124 career games.

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 615 wins as head coach of the Cyclones.

932 – The Cyclones have made at least one 3-point field goal in an NCAA women's record 932 consecutive games, a streak which encapsulates the entirety of the Bill Fennelly Era at Iowa State.

CROOKS COOKS

Iowa State sophomore Audi Crooks has garnered national attention as one of the nation's most exciting post players. Crooks has scored in double figures in 36-straight games and finished with 20+ points 19 times in her career. The 6-3 center scored a season-high 26 points on 12-of-17 shooting from the floor while pulling down a team-high eight rebounds against St. Thomas on Nov. 14.

She also tallied 22 points on 50 percent shooting from the floor while pulling down 10 rebounds at UNI. The Algona, Iowa native has improved her free throw shooting in the off season. She has connected on 70 percent of her attempts this season, improving from 65.5 percent of her trips to the line last season.

Crooks was one of the top players in NCAA Division I for field goal percentage last season, shooting nearly 58 percent from the floor. Crooks also reached 100 field goals made with 10 against Baylor (Jan. 13, 2024). She holds the best mark regardless of class in ISU history with 258 makes.

She broke the Iowa State freshman record for made field goals in a season at Texas (Feb. 17). Crooks broke the single-season record regardless of class against Maryland (Mar. 22).

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 824 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 697 dimes.

The 5-11 guard has recorded a career assist/turnover ratio of 1.99. Over 124 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 nine assists from entering the NCAA Division I all-time Top 30 and 115 dimes from the all-time Top 10.

HILTON MAGIC
The Cyclones have been phenomenal at home during Bill Fennelly's tenure, compiling a 385-82 record (.824) in Hilton Coliseum, including a 190-9 (.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.

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