No. 20 Iowa State vs. USC Upstate Primer

Who: No. 20 Iowa State (6-2, 0-0 Big 12) vs. USC Upstate (2-7, 0-0 Big South)
Where: Hilton Coliseum – Ames, Iowa
When: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 – 6:30 p.m. CT

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Iowa State opens December non-conference action in Hilton Coliseum on Tuesday night, taking on USC Upstate. The Cyclones are 5-0 in Hilton this season and have won eight straight contests in Ames dating back to last season.

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INSIDE THE SERIES
Overall: Iowa State leads 1-0
In Ames: Iowa State leads 1-0
Fennelly vs. USC Upstate: 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 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 is tied for 24^th among NCAA Division I all-time assists leaders.

14 – Iowa State ranks 14th nationally for assists per game with 19.1 dimes per contest. The mark is fifth in the Big 12. ISU has passed out 25 or more assists in a game three times this season.

935 – The Cyclones have made at least one 3-point field goal in an NCAA women's record 935 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 40-straight games and finished with 20+ points 21 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 finished 15-of-25 from the floor. She also tallied 22 points on 50 percent shooting from the floor while pulling down 10 rebounds at UNI for her second double-double this 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 844 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, followed by Kentucky's Georgia Amoore with 714 dimes.

The 5-11 guard has recorded a career assist/turnover ratio of 1.98. Over 127 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 24^th for all-time NCAA DI women's basketball assists leaders and is 95 dimes from the Top 10.

HILTON MAGIC
The Cyclones have been phenomenal at home during Bill Fennelly's tenure, compiling a 386-82 record (.825) in Hilton Coliseum, including a 191-9 (.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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