MBB: Iowa State Hosts Colorado

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MBB: Iowa State Hosts Colorado
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Iowa State (13-13, 4-8) vs. Colorado (6-16, 2-10)
Feb. 21, 2007 • 7 p.m. • Ames, Iowa • Hilton Coliseum (14,356)
Radio: Cyclone Radio Network; John Walters (pxp), Eric Heft (color)
Television: Cyclone Television Network; Dave Armstrong (pxp), Paul Splittorff (color)
Television Affiliates: WOI (Ames/Des Moines), KWKB (Cedar Rapids/Waterloo), KCAU (Sioux City), Mediacom (Mason City/Quad Cities), Cox Cable (Omaha/Council Bluffs)

Gameday Quick Facts

Iowa State (13-13, 4-8) plays host to Colorado (6-16, 2-10) on Wednesday...ISU is 3-3 at home vs. Big 12 opponents this season...the Cyclones’ worst home mark in conference play since the Big 12 was formed (1996-97) was a 4-4 record during the 2001-02 season...former Cyclone All-American Zaid Abdul-Aziz will be a special guest in Cyclone Alley Wednesday night...Abdul-Aziz, who enjoyed a 10-year NBA career after graduation from ISU in 1968, has just completed a book, Darkness to Sunlight:The Life-Changing Journey of Zaid Abdul-Aziz...he is an automatic qualifier of ISU’s All-Century Team that will be announced next season.

Cyclone-Buffalo Quick Facts

Iowa State leads the all-time series vs. Colorado at 72-65...the series is extremely lopsided favoring the home team...the Cyclones have a 43-18 advantage in game played in Ames and a 32-5 edge in games at Hilton Coliseum...ISU has won 14 of the last 15 games played in Ames, including last season’s 96-79 win where Curtis Stinson recorded just the third triple-double in school history...it was the last time ISU won a game vs. a ranked opponent...the Buffs were ranked No. 25 at the time...CU freshman Xavier Silas and ISU freshman Dodie Dunson were teammates last season at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H...ISU’s Jiri Hubalek, Wesley Johnson and Rahshon Clark all have their career high rebounding games vs. Colorado (Hubalek, 12- March 4, 2006; Johnson, 14- Jan. 17, 2007; Clark, 14- Feb. 5, 2006).

Cyclone Update

Iowa State (13-13, 4-8) could not get anything going offensively Saturday night, falling to Kansas State, 65-47 in Manhattan...the Cyclones shot 34.7 percent from the field while scoring a season-low 47 points...it was the lowest points scored by a Cyclone team since scoring 43 points at Texas Tech on Feb. 2, 2002...the Cyclones were down by just two points at the half (22-20), keeping the Wildcats at a 36.0 percent clip in the opening period...KSU heated up after intermission and went on a 17-4 run to take control of the game...Mike Taylor led ISU with 17 points, five boards and six assists...Taylor, who has now scored in double figures in 16-straight games, made a pair of treys in the game to increase his season total to 66...he now ranks seventh on ISU’s single-season 3-pointers made list...Taylor has made a 3-pointer in 22 consecutive games, breaking the former school mark by Dedric Willoughby (21, 1996-97) for most games in a row with a trey...the junior ranks eighth in the league in scoring (16.7) and sixth in the conference in 3-pointers made per game (2.53)...Jiri Hubalek tallied 13 points and five rebounds in the game...Hubalek, who had 10 points in the first half, is averaging 13.2 points and 7.7 rebounds in his last 14 games...Hubalek is hitting 50 percent of his shots from the floor in league games, tying for third in the conference...Wesley Johnson added eight points and two boards in his first game coming off the bench this season...Johnson now has 214 boards on the season, the second-best freshman rebounding total in school history...Johnson is second in the league in rebounding at 8.2 rpg, but has just two caroms in his last two games...the Cyclones were outrebounded by the Wildcats, 38-24, just the fourth time in 12 league games where ISU did not win the battle of the boards...ISU ranks sixth in the league in rebounding margin (+3.0)...the Cyclones continued their hot shooting at the free-throw line, making 11-of-14 at the charity stripe...ISU is 59-of-72 at the free-throw line (81.9 percent) in its last five games to improve its season percentage to over 70 percent (70.2 percent)...the Cyclones have not shot above 70 percent as a team from the charity stripe since the 2001-02 season (74.8 percent).

Colorado (6-16, 2-10)

Colorado (6-16, 2-10) is fresh off a 95-74 loss to Texas Tech on Saturday...Richard Roby led CU with 17 points, going 7-of-12 from the floor...Colorado earned its first Big 12 win of the season against Iowa State on Jan. 17...Colorado shot 50 percent in the second half behind an outstanding effort from freshman Xavier Silas...Silas scored all 19 of his points after intermission on 6-of-9 shooting from the floor, including a 4-of-5 effort from 3-point range...CU has played the least amount of games in the Big 12 (22)...the Buffs went 25 days in between games from Dec. 9 to Jan. 3 because of cancellations due to severe weather...CU is led by Roby, who is averaging 16.5 points and 5.1 rebounds while coming off the bench in the last two games...Roby, a first-team preseason all-Big 12 pick, is second on the team in steals (27) and third in 3-pointers (30)...Roby is third in the Big 12 with three 30-point games this season (Pepperdine-32, Texas-30, Kansas-30)...Silas is having a strong rookie season for the Buffs...he is averaging 11.9 ppg and 4.0 rpg...he has been much more productive since the conference season began, averaging 13.8 points in league games...Silas has scored in double-figures in eight of his last 10 games...Silas is the son of former ABA legend James Silas...James, who was a member of the San Antonio Spurs in the 1970s, earned the moniker, "Captain Late," because of his ability to make the big plays in the closing minutes of a basketball game...Dominique Coleman is the team’s top rebounder, averaging 6.3 rpg and scoring 10.8 ppg...Jermyl Jackson-Wilson is averaging 8.1 ppg and 5.9 rpg...Jackson-Wilson, who is in his first season with CU after transferring from Ohio State, had eight points and six rebounds in the first meeting between the two teams...CU is shooting 41.3 percent as a team and is allowing its opponents to a 47.5 percent clip from the floor...ISU and Colorado rank No. 12 (41.1 percent) and No. 11 (41.3 percent) in the Big 12, respectively in field goal percentage... the Buffs are giving up 80.9 points per game and are 1-8 in road games this year.

Iowa State Team Quick Facts

• Iowa State has just four returning scholarship players from last season.
• Of the 13 players that were alloted scholarships and were scheduled to return after the 2005-06 season, only five are currently on the roster (Hubalek, Clark, Marsden, Gray, Cory Johnson).
• 62.9 percent of the minutes played (3285) this season are by newcomers on the roster.
• 64.9 percent of ISU’s points this season (1086) are from players who did not play a minute last year.
• ISU’s 6-0 start tied for the fifth-best start in school history...only nine teams had won its first six games.
• ISU head coach Greg McDermott is one of two coaches in ISU history to win his first six games at the helm.
• ISU head coach Greg McDermott is the first native Iowan to coach the Cyclone men’s basketball team since Clayton Sutherland (1948-54)...McDermott is from Cascade; Sutherland was from Nashua.
• McDermott entered the season with the 41st-best winning percentage among active Division I coaches.
• Wesley Johnson broke Will Blalock’s school-record for standing vertical leap at 34 inches...Blalock’s record was at 33 1/2 inches...Johnson also had a 41-inch step vertical leap to break the school record.
• ISU head coach Greg McDermott is in his first season with the Cyclones, but he is already the seventh-longest tenured coach in the Big 12...of the six new coaches in the league (Mike Anderson, Missouri; Bob Huggins, Kansas State; Doc Sadler, Nebraska; Jeff Capel, Oklahoma; Sean Sutton, Oklahoma State; Greg McDermott, Iowa State), McDermott was the first to be hired.
• ESPN.com picked Hilton Coliseum as the "Hot Arena" in the Big 12...coaches in the league noted that, "regardless of talent, the Cyclones have a home court like no other."
• Fans voted Iowa State and Hilton Coliseum as the nation’s No. 1 team in regards to school spirit in a poll duing ESPN’s "student spirit" week.
• Iowa State’s student spirit group for men’s basketball is called "Cyclone Alley"...a record number of over 3,000 students are members of Cyclone Alley, where the students sit behind both ends of the baskets.
• ISU held Louisiana-Monroe to 27.3 percent from the field, the first time a Cyclone opponent was held under 30 percent shooting since Dec. 31, 2002 (Arkansas-Pine Bluff).
• 12 different Cyclones have made a 3-pointer this season.
• ISU tied the school record by making 13 treys (13-25, 52.0 percent) vs. SEMO, including 11 in the first half.
• ISU has recorded six games with 10 or more 3-pointers this year.
• ISU ranks fifth in the Big 12 in 3-pointers per game (6.58 3FG).
• ISU tallied a season-high nine blocks vs. Northern Iowa, the most since blocking 10 against Drake (11-23-04).
• ISU has made a 3-pointer in 58 consecutive games.
• ISU ranks sixth in the Big 12 in rebounding margin (+3.0).
• ISU has outrebounded 14 of its last 19 opponents.
• ISU has been outrebounded just four times in Big 12 play (Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Kansas State).
• ISU has outshot its opponents from the free-throw line, 316-210 in home games...but is getting outshot at the charity stripe, 200-115 in away games.
• Only 10 teams (Northern Iowa, Drake, Iowa, Bradley, Ohio State, Southeast Missouri State, Colorado, Texas A&M, Missouri, Texas) have scored 70 or more points against ISU this season...22 teams scored 70 or more points against ISU last season.
• ISU ranks 22nd nationally in least amount of fouls per game (16.1)...only seven teams (Northern Iowa, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Texas) have committed less fouls than ISU in a game this year.
• ISU has made seven or more 3-pointers in a game this year 12 times.
• ISU is 10-0 when outshooting its opponent.
• Only two Big 12 opponents have shot above 46.0 percent from the field against ISU this season (Missouri. Texas).
• In ISU’s 12 Big 12 games, the Cyclones are averaging 9.7 turnovers (116) in the first half and 5.7 turnovers (69) in the second half.
• ISU is 2-3 when having the lead at the half in Big 12 games...ISU is 2-5 when its opponents have the lead at the half in Big 12 games.
• ISU is last in the Big 12 in FG percentage (41.1 percent) and is shooting just 39.2 percent in league games.
• In league games only, ISU’s top three players (Mike Taylor, Wesley Johnson, Jiri Hubalek) have combined for 70.8 percent (513/724) of its scoring and 66.1 percent (436/659) of its field goal attempts.
• ISU is shooting 81.9 percent from the free-throw line in its last five games (59-72 FT).