Iowa State vs. No. 9 TCU Primer

Who: Iowa State (15-8, 6-4 Big 12) vs. No. 9 TCU (20-2, 8-1 Big 12)

Where: Hilton Coliseum – Ames, Iowa

When: Sunday, February 2, 2025 – 3:00 p.m. CT

The Links

WATCH: FS1

PxP: Krista Blunk Analyst: Madison Hock

LISTEN: Cyclone Radio Network – Varsity App or Radio Affiliates

PxP: Noah Wolf Analyst: Jamie Steyer Johnson

LIVE STATS

IOWA STATE GAME NOTES

MEDIA CENTER

 

Iowa State returns to Hilton Coliseum to take on No. 9 TCU for its annual Play4Kay game. Fans are encouraged to wear pink and join in the festivities to honor breast cancer survivors on Sunday afternoon.

On Sunday, we wear pink!

Join us at Hilton this Sunday at 3 PM, wear pink to support breast cancer awareness and help us celebrate breast cancer survivors!

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— Cyclone Basketball (@CycloneWBB) February 1, 2025

CYCLONES PARTICIPATE IN ANNUAL PLAY4KAY GAME

Iowa State invites all fans to wear pink to Sunday’s contest to promote breast cancer awareness and celebrate breast cancer survivors.

INSIDE THE SERIES

Overall: ISU leads 14-10

In Ames: ISU leads 8-4

Fennelly vs. TCU: 14-10

SERIES NOTE

ISU and TCU did not meet last season as TCU forfeited the Jan. 20, 2024 contest due to injuries.

FOUR THINGS

2 – Iowa State had two players named to the Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Watch list earlier this season. Audi Crooks and Emily Ryan were two of 50 women’s collegiate basketball players selected to the watch list. It is the second time Ryan has been featured on the top 50 list and the first time Crooks has been added.

12 – Number of times ISU has held its opponent to 60 points or less in a game this season. The Cyclones most recently held UCF to under 60 in an 90-56 win in Hilton Coliseum.

13 – Iowa State is one of the top ballhandling teams in the country, recording a 1.35 assist/turnover ratio this season. The Cyclones rank 13^th nationally and fourth in the Big 12 with the mark.

55 – Audi Crooks has scored in double figures in 55 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 fifth best career scoring average (20.6 PPG) among active NCAA DI women’s basketball players and ranks 11th overall. Each of the top five NCAA DI career scorers are sophomores and juniors: Watkins (USC), Hidalgo (Notre Dame), Ta’Niya Latson (Florida State), Annesah Morrow (LSU), Crooks (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 55 straight games and finished with 20+ points 32 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.

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 927 assists and holds the all-time best mark in program history by over 150 dimes. She is the active NCAA women’s basketball leader for assists with her career total, followed by Kentucky’s Georgia Amoore with 805 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 141 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 11^th for all-time NCAA DI women’s basketball assists leaders and is 12 dimes from the Top 10.

HILTON MAGIC

The Cyclones have been phenomenal at home during Bill Fennelly‘s tenure, compiling a 392-82 record (.827) 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.