Audi Crooks had her way tonight, scoring a school-record 43 points and seven rebounds in just 20 minutes. Addy Brown chipped in with 18 points, seven rebounds and four assists, and Jada Williams dished a career-high 10 assists for her first career double-double. Led by Crooks, ISU controlled the inside by outscoring Valparaiso 62-14 in the paint.
Brown knocked down a midrange jumper to give the Cyclones the early 2-0 lead. Both teams traded buckets early in the quarter, with Crooks scoring the next ten points for ISU on 5-of-6 shooting. Brown would bank in a contested layup at the 4:18 mark to give Iowa State a 14-10 lead. After a career-high eight assists last game, Jada Williams made her presence felt in the first quarter. Williams would dish out six assists on the team’s eight baskets in the quarter, as Iowa State led 16-10 at the end of the first.
Brown drained a step-back jumper at 7:07 to push the lead to 11. Audi and Addy would then go on to dominate the rest of the quarter, going on a 12-2 run by themselves in four minutes and scoring 18 of the team’s 27 points in the quarter. With three minutes left in the half, Brown would score a layup for her 1,000th career point, becoming the 36th women’s basketball player to reach that milestone. Jada Williams knocked down ISU’s first three-pointer of the game with 45 seconds left then assisted Crooks’ jumper with six seconds left to give her nine assists in the first half. Iowa State headed into the locker room up 43-22, where Crooks finished the half with 22 points on an efficient 11-of-14 from the field.
Audi and Addy would continue to pour it on, scoring Iowa State’s first nine points of the half. Crooks would cross the 30-point threshold with a layup with two minutes left and scored the team’s final 11 points in the quarter. Crooks finished the third with 15 points and shot 5-of-6 from the line. ISU led 67-42 at the end of the third quarter.
30 seconds into the frame, Crooks scored two baskets to surpass her previous career-high (40). Two more free throws for Crooks and she ended the night with a program-record 43 points. Iowa State would go on to win 97-50.
Top Performer
Audi Crooks couldn’t be stopped, finishing with a career-high 43 points on 18-of-23 shooting and seven rebounds.
Up Next
No. 16 Iowa State is back in action at home against Norfolk State Sunday, Nov. 16 at 1 p.m. The game will be streamed on ESPN+.
Notes
Iowa State women’s basketball’s all-time record moves to 875-678 (.563) and 638-325 (.663) in the Bill Fennelly era.
Fennelly’s career record moves to 804-378 (.680) in his 38-year career.
Iowa State won its seventh straight game in Hilton Coliseum, a streak dating back to last season’s win over Colorado on February 8, 2025. The Cyclones are 400-84 (.826) in the Fennelly era when playing in Hilton Coliseum and 199-9 (.957) in regular season non-conference games.
ISU held Valparaiso to just 50 points tonight, the fourth time in as many games holding an opponent to under 60 points. Iowa State is 362-31 under Fennelly when its opponent scores less than 60 points.
Scoring a game-high 43 points, Audi Crooks extended her double-figure scoring streak to 71 games. She has scored in double digits in every collegiate game except for her Cyclone debut in 2023.
Crooks also recorded the 45th 20-point performance of her career.
She finished 18-of-23 from the floor (.783), the 16th time in her career she has shot 75 percent or better in a single game.
Her field goal total also matched her single-game program record (18 vs. Maryland; March 22, 2024)
Crooks also passed Jayme Olson’s seventh all-time best mark for field goals by a Cyclone (628). Crooks has made 633 field goals and is four from matching the sixth-best total by an Iowa State player (Lindsey Wilson, 637).
Addy Brown scored her 1,000th career point in the second quarter, becoming the 36th women’s basketball player to reach that milestone.
After recording a career-high in assists last game, Jada Williams dished out a new career-high 10 assists to go along with 11 points. The performance marked the first double-double for the Kansas City native.
Lily Taulelei hit a free throw to score her 250th career point. Taulelei finished with seven points on the night.
