Crooks Earns Second Team All-America Honors From The Sporting News

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State junior center Audi Crooks has been named a Second Team All-American by the Sporting News.

A unanimous First-Team All-Big 12 Conference player for the third-straight season, Crooks is averaging a league-best 25.5 points per game while shooting nearly 65 percent from the floor as the nation's second leading scorer. The 6-3 center is one of only two players in NCAA Division I basketball (men's or women's) to average at least 25.5 points per game while shooting at least 64.7 percent from the floor. The other was Iowa's Megan Gustafson in 2017-18 and 2018-19. Gustafson won the Lisa Leslie Award in 2019. Crooks scored her 2,000^th career point in her 89^th game, becoming the fastest Big 12 women's basketball player to reach the milestone. The Algona, Iowa native averaged 7.8 rebounds while recording 12 double-doubles this season. She has scored in double figures in 97 consecutive games, the longest active streak nationally, and is the only player in the country to record multiple 40-point games this season.

Iowa State was selected to participate in the 2026 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship as a No. 8 seed and will face No. 9-seed Syracuse on Saturday, March 21 in Storrs, Conn. Tip-off is set for 4:30 pm CT on ESPN 2.