AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State Cyclones beat Mississippi Valley State by 50 points on New Year’s Eve and will travel to New York City for one more tuneup before opening conference play.
No. 9 Iowa State (10-1) concludes non-conference action Saturday against South Carolina (8-3) Saturday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The Cyclones will put a 7-game winning streak on the line. Iowa State has won 11 of its last 13 neutral site games. During Iowa State’s recent win streak, the Cyclones have shot 53.1 percent from the field and averaged 21.7 assists per game. ISU has outscored its opponents by 25.1 points during the streak. Three Cyclones are averaging better than 14 points during the streak and seven players have tallied more than 7.0 ppg in that time.
Fred Hoiberg won his 100th career game on Wednesday night in ISU’s 50-point win against Mississippi Valley State. Hoiberg is the fastest ISU coach to 100 wins and the fifth in school history.
The Cyclones are ranked No. 9 in the AP poll, their school-record 26th week in a row in the top-25.
Iowa State, which leads the Big 12 in scoring with 84.5 points per game, has two of the top six scorers in the Big 12. The Cyclones average 5.6 points more per game than the second-highest scoring team in the league (West Virginia). Georges Niang (16.1) is third and Bryce Dejean-Jones is sixth with 15.2 points per contest. Dejean-Jones is fourth in shooting, connecting on 57.4 percent of his shots, while Niang is sixth shooting 52.2 percent from the field.