MBB: Cyclones Travel To Nebraska
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Iowa State (14-14, 5-9) at Nebraska (16-11, 5-8)
Feb. 28, 2007 • 7 p.m. • Lincoln, Neb. • Devaney Center (13,595)
Radio: Cyclone Radio Network; John Walters (pxp), Kevin Lehman (color)
Television: Cyclone Television Network; Dave Armstrong (pxp), Paul Splittorff (color)
Television Affiliates: WOI (Des Moines/Ames), KCAU (Sioux City), KWKB (Cedar Rapids/Waterloo), Mediacom (Quad Cities/Mason City), Cox Cable (Omaha/Council Bluffs)
Gameday Quick Facts
Iowa State (14-14, 5-9) travels to Nebraska (16-11, 5-8) to play its final Big 12 road game...Nebraska is tied for eighth in the Big 12 standings, a half game ahead of Iowa State, which sits alone in the 10th spot...the Cyclones have locked up no less than a 10th seed in the Big 12 Tournament, March 8-11 in Oklahoma City, Okla...Wesley Johnson has 227 rebounds, ranking seventh on the Big 12’s freshmen rebounding list...he needs eight boards to move past Kansas’ Nick Collison to No. 6 on the chart...Collison, a native of Iowa Falls, grabbed 234 caroms in the 1999-00 season.
Cyclone-Husker Quick Facts
Nebraska leads the all-time series against Iowa State at 128-97...the Huskers own the series lead in games played in Lincoln at 76-31 and have a 19-12 edge in games played in the Devaney Center...
ISU has won the last two meetings in Nebraska...the prior six meetings the series before
ISU’s two-game winning streak were decided by a total of 15 points (2.5 differential)...NU head coach Doc Sadler is one of six new coaches in the Big 12...he lost his Big 12 debut to Iowa State, 71-62 on Jan. 10...Nebraska freshman Sek Henry and Iowa State freshman Wesley Johnson went to the same prep school, The Patterson [N.C.] School...Johnson did not compete for the team because he transferred to the school during the middle of the season after his other prep school (Eldon Academy [Mich.]) shut down.
Cyclone Update
Iowa State (14-14, 5-9) fell to Kansas, 89-52 Saturday in Lawrence...the Cyclones struggled from the field, shooting 32.7 percent, the eighth time in 14 league games where
ISU failed to shoot above 40 percent from the floor...
ISU was down 42-15 at the half, making just 17.9 percent from the floor in the opening period...the 15 points scored by
ISU was the lowest half production since tallying 14 points in the first period at Texas Tech on Feb. 2, 2002...the Cyclones were outrebounded, 47-30 by the Jayhawks, marking the second game in a row where
ISU lost the battle of the boards...in its first 12 league games, the Cyclones were outrebounded just three times...however,
ISU has been outboarded in its last two games by a +12.5 margin...
ISU failed to have a player in double figures in scoring, led by Dodie Dunson with eight points...it was the second league game this season where Dunson was
ISU’s top scorer...Dunson made a pair of treys to give him 27 for the season, tying for fifth all-time on
ISU’s freshman 3-pointers made list...Mike Taylor had his 17-game double figure scoring streak ended, tallying seven points...Taylor went 1-for-5 from beyond the arc, increasing his school-record consecutive game with a 3-pointer streak to 24...Rahshon Clark tallied five points, drilling a trey and making both of his free-throws...Clark now has 80 3-pointers in his career, ranking 10th on
ISU’s all-time list...Clark has made 13-straight free-throws...Jiri Hubalek had six points and nine rebounds to pace
ISU on the glass...Hubalek leads
ISU (conference games only) in rebounding at 7.9 rpg, ranking sixth in the league...Wesley Johnson had six points and four rebounds...Johnson has 227 boards this year, the seventh-best freshman output in Big 12 history...
KU shot 52.2 percent from the floor, just the fifth time this season where
ISU allowed a team to shoot above 50 percent.
What Happened Last Time?
Mike Taylor paced Iowa State to a 71-62 win over Nebraska in the Cyclones’ Big 12 home opener on Jan. 10...Taylor tied a career-high with six treys, going 6-of-10 from beyond the arc en route to a game-high 22 points to halt NU’s two-game winning streak in Hilton Coliseum...the Cyclones shot 52.0 percent from the floor in the second half, outscoring the Huskers 44-32 after being down at the break...
ISU shot 46.2 percent for the game, its third-best shooting performance in a Big 12 game this season...Jiri Hubalek and Wesley Johnson both tallied double-doubles for the Cyclones...Hubalek had 13 points and 11 boards...Johnson had 10 points and 11 boards.
Nebraska (16-11, 5-8)
Nebraska (16-11, 5-8) is fresh off an 82-77 overtime victory over Missouri on Saturday...Aleks Maric led the Huskers with 31 points and 19 rebounds...the Huskers ride the strength of the veteran post player Maric, who leads the team in scoring at 17.8 ppg and has a team-high 8.1 rebounding average...Maric has nine 20-point games this season, including a season-high 41 vs. Kansas State...Maric, at 6-11 and 270 pounds, uses his wide body to get excellent post position...he currently leads the Big 12 in field goal percentage at 57.3 percent...Maric was virtually unstoppable against the Cyclones last season in Ames...Maric scored a then-career-high 37 points on 13-of-15 shooting from the floor, as Nebraska defeated
ISU, 73-63...he also grabbed 16 boards in the game...freshman guard Ryan Anderson has been a pleasant surprise for the Huskers...Anderson ranks second on the team in scoring (10.6 ppg) and has made 42.9 percent of his 3-point attempts...Anderson scored a career-high 29 points in a 81-72 loss at Hawaii earlier this season...senior guard Marcus Perry has given the Huskers a spark, averaging 9.0 ppg...Perry had a career-high 25 points vs. Miami (Fla.) earlier this season...Perry leads the team with 53 3-pointers, making 41.1 percent from beyond the arc...senior guard Charles Richardson is having a strong senior season...Richardson has excelled in Sadler’s up-tempo style, ranking second in the Big 12 in assists at 5.7 apg...Richardson, who averages 8.1 ppg, leads the team and ranks fourth in the league in steals with a 1.8 spg average...Nebraska has been an extremely efficient team on the offensive end...the Huskers rank fifth in the league in 3-point field goal percentage (38.0 percent), making 214-of-563 shots from beyond the arc this year...NU has seven players on the team who have made 15 or more treys.
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).
• 62.8 percent of the minutes played (3536) this season are by newcomers on the roster.
• 65.7 percent of
ISU’s points this season (1169) are from players who did not play a minute last year.
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ISU’s 6-0 start tied for the fifth-best start in school history...only nine teams had won its first six games.
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ISU head coach Greg McDermott is one of two coaches in
ISU history to win his first six games at the helm.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ISU tied the school record by making 13 treys (13-25, 52.0 percent) vs. SEMO, including 11 in the first half.
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ISU has recorded six games with 10 or more 3-pointers this year.
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ISU ranks fifth in the Big 12 in 3-pointers per game (6.54 3FG).
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ISU tallied a season-high nine blocks vs. Northern Iowa, the most since blocking 10 against Drake (11-23-04).
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ISU has made a 3-pointer in 60 consecutive games.
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ISU has outrebounded 14 of its last 21 opponents.
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ISU has been outrebounded just six times in Big 12 play (Kansas-2, Colorado-2, Missouri, Kansas State).
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ISU has outshot its opponents from the free-throw line, 327-218 in home games...but is getting outshot at the charity stripe, 221-130 in away games.
• Only 11 teams (Northern Iowa, Drake, Iowa, Bradley, Ohio State, Southeast Missouri State, Colorado, Texas A&M, Missouri, Texas, Kansas) have scored 70 or more points against
ISU this season...22 teams scored 70 or more points against
ISU last season.
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ISU ranks 22nd nationally in least amount of fouls per game (16.0)...only eight teams (Northern Iowa, Iowa, Kansas-2, Colorado, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Texas) have committed less fouls than
ISU in a game this year.
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ISU is 10-0 when outshooting its opponent.
• Only three Big 12 opponents have shot above 46.0 percent against
ISU this season (Missouri, Texas, Kansas).
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ISU’s ranks seventh in the league and 97th nationally in field goal percentage defense (42.5 percent)...only five teams this year have shot 50 percent or above against
ISU.
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ISU’s 14 Big 12 games, the Cyclones are averaging 9.2 turnovers (129) in the first half and 6.1 turnovers (85) in the second half.
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ISU is 2-3 when having the lead at the half in Big 12 games...
ISU is 3-6 when its opponents have the lead at the half in Big 12 games.
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ISU is last in the Big 12 in FG percentage (40.6 percent) and is shooting just 38.5 percent in league games.
• In league games only,
ISU’s top three players (Mike Taylor, Wesley Johnson, Jiri Hubalek) have combined for 67.6 percent (562/831) of its scoring and 64.5 percent (498/771) of its field goal attempts.
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ISU is shooting 77.5 percent from the free-throw line in its last six games (76-98 FT).
• Mike Taylor has scored 20 or more points in a game nine times...only one other Cyclone (Jiri Hubalek- 26 vs. Oklahoma) has reached 20 points in a game this year.
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