Iowa State vs. Colorado Primer

Who: Iowa State (16-9, 7-5 Big 12) vs. Colorado (16-6, 7-4 Big 12)
Where: Hilton Coliseum – Ames, Iowa
When: Saturday, February 8, 2025 – 4:00 p.m. CT

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WATCH: ESPN+
PxP: BJ Schaben Analyst: Molly Parrott
LISTEN: Cyclone Radio Network – Varsity App or Radio Affiliates
PxP: Noah Wolf Analyst: Jamie Steyer Johnson
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Iowa State hosts Colorado as part of a Hilton doubleheader and welcomes alumni for Iowa State women's basketball reunion weekend. The Cyclones will recognize the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 teams on the 25th anniversary of their back-to-back Big 12 Championship titles.

INSIDE THE SERIES
Overall: Colorado leads 37-30
In Ames: ISU leads 16-12
Fennelly vs. Colorado: 23-13

SERIES NOTE
ISU has won each of its last seven matchups played against Colorado in Hilton Coliseum.

WHITE OUT HILTON
Iowa State fans are encouraged to participate in the White Out at Hilton Coliseum on Saturday evening. Giveaway items for students include white Cyclones Script hats and white rally towels.

IOWA STATE WELCOMES BACK ALUMNI
Cyclone Women's Basketball hosts its annual reunion weekend, welcoming back alumni from every era of Iowa State women's basketball. The Cyclones will celebrate the 25^th anniversary of their back-to-back Big 12 Championships with the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 teams with an in-game recognition before welcoming the whole group to the court later in the game.

FOUR THINGS
2 – Iowa State has two sophomore Top 10 finalists for Naismith positional awards this season. Addy Brown was named to the Katrina McClain Power Forward of the Year Award Top 10 before Audi Crooks advanced to the Lisa Leslie Center of the Year Award Top 10.

6 – Iowa State is one of the top assisting teams in the country, averaging 19.5 assists per game ... the Cyclones rank sixth nationally and third in the Big 12 with the mark.

13 – Number of times ISU has held its opponent to 60 points or less in a game this season. The Cyclones most recently held UCF to under 60 in an 90-56 win in Hilton Coliseum.

56 – Audi Crooks has scored in double figures in 56 straight games. Angie Welle holds the program's best mark with 64 consecutive games with double-figure scoring (Nov. 29, 2000-March 18, 2002).

1,000 POINT QUEEN
Iowa State sophomore Audi Crooks became the program's 35th 1,000 point scorer with her 23rd point against Utah (Jan. 5). Crooks is the fastest Cyclone to score 1,000 points, reaching the mark in 49 games. She passed all-time leading scorer Ashley Joens as the fastest ISU player to 1,000 points, the previous best in 64 games. Crooks is also the third fastest Big 12 women's basketball player to reach 1,000 points behind Courtney Paris (Oklahoma, 46) and Sheila Lambert (Baylor, 48).

Among a loaded sophomore class nationally, Crooks was the third NCAA Division I player in her class to score 1,000 points at one institution behind JuJu Watkins (USC) and Hannah Hidalgo (Notre Dame). Crooks owns the fourth best career scoring average (20.7 PPG) among active NCAA DI women's basketball players and ranks 10th overall. Each of the top five NCAA DI career scorers are sophomores and juniors: Watkins (USC), Hidalgo (Notre Dame), Ta'Niya Latson (Florida State), Crooks (Iowa State), Aneesah Morrow (LSU).

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 57 straight games and finished with 20+ points 33 times in her career. The 6-3 center scored a season-high 33 points against Drake (Nov. 24), including the game-winner with less than a second on the clock. She matched the total against Kansas (Jan. 1) in ISU's 78-64 win over the Jayhawks.

Crooks was one of the top players in NCAA Division I for field goal percentage last season, shooting nearly 58 percent from the floor. She holds the best made field goal mark regardless of class in ISU history with 258 makes. She broke the Iowa State sophomore record against UCF (Jan. 25) with her 192^nd make of the 2024-25 season.

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 937 assists and holds the all-time best mark in program history by over 150 dimes. She is the active NCAA women's basketball leader for assists with her career total, followed by Kentucky's Georgia Amoore with 813 dimes.

Ryan is one of three NCAA DI women's basketball players to record at least 1,500 points, 600 rebounds and 900 assists in her career, joining Sabrina Ionescu (Oregon) and Caitlin Clark (Iowa).

The 5-11 guard has recorded a career assist/turnover ratio of 2.00. Over 143 games, she has tallied single-game assists at every mark, 1-17 and has never finished a game with less than one assist. Ryan ranks 11^th for all-time NCAA DI women's basketball assists leaders and is two dimes from the Top 10.

HILTON MAGIC
The Cyclones have been phenomenal at home during Bill Fennelly's tenure, compiling a 392-83 record (.825) in Hilton Coliseum, including a 195-9 (.956) mark against regular-season non-conference opponents. Iowa State has gone undefeated at home three times, most recently during the 2004-05 season.

With a win over Eastern Illinois on Dec. 15, ISU posted a spotless 8-0 non-conference record in Hilton, the 23^rd time under Bill Fennelly the Cyclones finished the regular season non-conference home slate undefeated. 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 were tied for the third-most in a season in school history.

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