Iowa State vs. Houston Primer

Who: Iowa State (18-9, 9-5 Big 12) vs. Houston (5-20, 1-13 Big 12)
Where: Hilton Coliseum – Ames, Iowa
When: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 – 6:30 p.m. CT

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Iowa State returns home to Hilton Coliseum to take on Houston. It marks the second time the Cyclones and the Cougars will meet and the first time in Ames.

INSIDE THE SERIES
Overall: ISU leads 1-0
In Ames: First Meeting
Fennelly vs. UH: 1-0

SERIES NOTE
ISU picked up the 76-64 win at Houston a season ago, led by Audi Crooks' 25 points on 9-of-11 shooting from the floor.

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.

9 – Iowa State is one of the top ballhandling teams in the country, recording a 1.41 assist/turnover ratio. The Cyclones rank ninth nationally and third in the Big 12 with the mark.

14 – Number of times ISU has held its opponent to 60 points or less in a game this season. The Cyclones most recently held Colorado to under 60, taking the victory in Hilton Coliseum, 86-56.

59 – Audi Crooks has scored in double figures in 59 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 59 straight games and finished with 20+ points 35 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 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 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 948 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 828 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 145 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.

HILTON MAGIC
The Cyclones have been phenomenal at home during Bill Fennelly's tenure, compiling a 394-84 record (.824) 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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Players Mentioned

Addy Brown

Audi Crooks

Emily Ryan

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