ISU Meets Iowa In Hy-Vee Cy-Hawk Series
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Iowa State (6-2) at Iowa (4-5)
Dec. 8, 2006 • 7 p.m. • Carver-Hawkeye Arena (15,500)
Radio: Cyclone Radio Network; John Walters (pxp), Eric Heft (color)
Television: Iowa Television Network/ESPNU; Larry Morgan (pxp), Mac McCausland (color)
TV Affiliates: ESPNU, KDSM (Des Moines), KGAN (Cedar Rapids/Waterloo)
The game will be offered on the ESPN Fullcourt package
Gameday Quick Facts
Iowa State (6-2) faces Iowa (4-5) in the annual Hy-Vee Cy-Hawk Series showdown in Iowa City...it will be the third consecutive game against an instate opponent for Iowa State...the Cyclones lost to Northern Iowa (70-57) and Drake (80-78) last week...
ISU is trying to avoid a three-game sweep from its instate opponents (Drake, Northern Iowa, Iowa)...only once in school history has
ISU lost to all three intrastate rivals in the same season (1997-98)...
ISU center Ross Marsden has missed the last two games because of the flu...his status is still day-to-day for Friday’s game.
Cyclone-Hawkeye Quick Facts
Iowa leads the all-time Tall Corn State series vs. Iowa State, 40-19...Iowa leads the series in games played in Iowa City at 24-5...the series started off slow for Iowa State, losing 17 of the first 18 games in the intrastate rivalry by 1920...since then, the rivalry has been a little more even, with Iowa holding a 23-18 advantage...12 of
ISU’s 19 wins in the series have occurred since 1984...since
ISU’s watermark 76-72 double overtime win in 1984, the series is deadlocked at 12-12...Iowa head coach Steve Alford is 4-4 vs. the Cyclones in his head coaching career...Alford played against Iowa State twice in his career at Indiana, winning both games, 69-67 in 1984 and 86-65 in 1985...in the 1984 game, Alford scored 22 points in Hilton Coliseum while playing all 40 minutes...Alford has the sixth-best NCAA Division I free-throw shooting percentage in NCAA history at 89.8 percent...
ISU head coach Greg McDermott is 3-2 as a head coach vs. Iowa and Steve Alford, all while coaching at Northern Iowa...he never faced Iowa when he was competing at UNI from 1984-88...Iowa senior Adam Haluska played his freshman season at Iowa State...he averaged 9.2 points and earned Big 12 all-freshman honors...
ISU junior Alex Thompson is redshirting this season after transferring from Iowa...he played two years in Iowa City, averaging 2.0 points and 2.3 rebounds as a sophomore last year...Iowa State senior forward Jessan Gray and Iowa junior center Kurt Looby and junior guard Justin Johnson were teammates at Tyler C.C. in Texas in 2004-05...senior Mike Henderson orally committed to Iowa State after his sophomore season at Waterloo East, but he later signed with Iowa.
Hy-Vee Cy-Hawk Series
This is the third year of the Hy-Vee Cy-Hawk Series...the school that excels in competition- athletic and academic- will be crowned champion of the head-to-head series between the Cyclones and the Hawkeyes...Iowa has taken an early 7-4 lead, gaining wins in football (3 points), soccer (2 points) and wrestling (2 points)...Iowa State received points in volleyball (2 points) and women’s basketball (2 points)...the women’s swimming and diving meet is on Friday (2 points)...the all-time series is tied at 1-1, with Iowa winning the inaugural title and
ISU winning last season.
Cyclone Update
Iowa State lost its second consecutive game to a Missouri Valley Conference team, falling 80-78 to Drake Sunday afternoon in Hilton Coliseum...the loss snapped
ISU’s 13-game home win streak against the Bulldogs...the last time Drake beat
ISU in Hilton Coliseum was on Dec. 4, 1978 (86-77)...the game had a crazy finish...
ISU was down by 16 points with 11:37 remaining in the game, but the Cyclones mounted a furious comeback, tying the game at 78-78 on a Dodie Dunson layup with :16 left in the game...Drake’s Al Stewart answered with a lay-up on its next possession to give the Bulldogs an 80-78 lead with :04 left...
ISU had one last chance, as Mike Taylor drove the court and passed to Dunson, who pumped faked and then drilled a trey, but it was a fraction of a second too late...Dunson, who was one of five Cyclones in double figures in scoring, had a phenomenal game for the Cyclones, scoring a career-high 16 points on 5-of-7 shooting from the floor and a 4-of-5 effort from 3-point range...he scored 13 of his 16 points in the second half...Dunson’s four treys helped
ISU register 10 for the game, the second double-digit 3-pointer made effort this season...
ISU has made 38-of-91 3-pointers (41.7 percent) in its last four games...Wesley Johnson recorded his third double-double of the season with a career-high 16 points and 10 rebounds, going 5-for-10 from the floor and 6-of-6 from the free-throw line...Johnson also had two blocks, giving him a team-high 13 swats on the year...he is on pace to break the Cyclone freshman blocked shot record currently held by Jared Homan (40)...Rahshon Clark tallied 13 points and nine boards in the loss...Clark made three treys, increasing his career total to 72, moving past Julius Michalik to No. 14 on
ISU career 3-pointer made chart...
ISU struggled to stop the Bulldogs on offense, giving up a season-high 47.0 percent from the floor...it was only the second time this year where
ISU allowed an opponent to shoot above 40 percent...it was also just the third time this season where an opponent outshot the Cyclones...Ross Marsden missed his second consecutive game because of the flu.
Iowa (4-5)
Iowa is 4-5 after a 57-55 loss at home to Northern Iowa on Tuesday...senior Adam Haluska, who played his freshman season at Iowa State, is the team leader, averaging 17.4 points and 4.4 rebounds...Haluska, a native of Carroll, Iowa, poured in a career-high 31 points against Coppin State last Saturday to help him earn MVP honors at the Hawkeye Challenge...Haluska, who drilled six treys against Coppin State, leads the team with 25 3-pointers...he is shooting 94.4 percent from the free-throw line, which ranks in the top-20 nationally...freshman Tyler Smith has had a good start to his career...the Pulaski, Tenn., native is averaging 14.2 points and 4.9 rebounds...he registered a career-high 28 points in the win vs. Toledo and led Iowa against UNI with 20 points...junior college transfer Justin Johnson has taken over some point guard duties with the injury to Mike Henderson...Johnson is averaging 6.9 points and is shooting 47.4 percent (18-38 3FG) from 3-point range...the Hawks are shooting 75.4 percent from the free-throw line this season, which ranks in the top-50 nationally.
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