Iowa State vs. Baylor Primer

Who: Iowa State (22-10, 12-6 Big 12) vs. No. 17 Baylor (25-6, 15-3 Big 12)
Where: T-Mobile Arena – Kansas City, Mo.
When: Friday, March 7, 2025 – 5:30 p.m. CT

The Links
WATCH: ESPN+
PxP: Brenda VanLengen Analyst: Andrea Lloyd
LISTEN: Cyclone Radio Network – Varsity App or Radio Affiliates
PxP: Noah Wolf Analyst: Jamie Steyer Johnson
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Iowa State advances to meet Baylor in the quarterfinals of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship for the third-straight season. The Cyclones met the Bears once in the regular season in Waco at the end of February.

INSIDE THE SERIES
Overall: Baylor leads 35-13
In Kansas City: Baylor leads 4-3
Fennelly vs. Baylor: 13-35

SERIES NOTE
Iowa State and Baylor have met in the quarterfinal round of the Big 12 Championship for each of the last three years.

FOUR THINGS
3 – Iowa State had three players honored with Big 12 recognition. Audi Crooks was a unanimous First Team All-Big 12 selection while Addy Brown earned second team honors and Emily Ryan was honorable mention.

13 – Iowa State is one of the top ballhandling teams in the country, recording a 1.35 assist/turnover ratio. The Cyclones rank 13th nationally and fourth in the Big 12 with the mark.

15 – Number of times ISU has held its opponent to 60 points or less in a game this season. The Cyclones most recently held Houston to under 60, taking the victory in Hilton Coliseum, 64-53.

64 – Audi Crooks has scored in double figures in 64 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 (21.0 PPG) among active NCAA DI women's basketball players and ranks ninth 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 64 straight games and finished with 20+ points 38 times in her career. The 6-3 center scored a season-high 36 points on 14-of-18 shooting from the floor against Kansas State. She poured in 33 points against Kansas (Jan. 1) in ISU's 78-64 win over the Jayhawks and against Colorado (Feb. 8).

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 290 makes this season, besting her total from last year (258). 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 977 assists and holds the all-time best mark in program history by over 200 dimes. She is the active NCAA women's basketball leader for assists with her career total, followed by Kentucky's Georgia Amoore with 848 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 150 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 ninth for all-time NCAA DI women's basketball assists leaders.

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Players Mentioned

Addy Brown

Audi Crooks

Emily Ryan

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