July 2, 2002

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For the fifth consecutive year, Iowa State played host to the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament ... the Cyclones have earned six-straight NCAA Tournament bids ... ISU was one of seven Big 12 schools selected as a host school for the first and second rounds, the most of any conference ... despite seven conference foes being selected into the tournament, ISU was the lone Big 12 representative in the Midwest Region ... 10 teams the Cyclones faced throughout the 2001-02 season were invited to the Big Dance ... ISU went 8-6 vs. those squads, including an 82-66 victory over the West Region's No. 1 seeded Oklahoma ... Iowa State notched its fifth consecutive 20-win season ... in 16 home games in 2001-02, the Cyclones posted a 12-4 record and an average margin of victory of 13.4 ppg.

More Honors for Welle
Iowa State senior center Angie Welle earned Big 12 Conference all-tournament team recognition for the third consecutive season. She averaged 22.3 points, 12 rebounds and shot .586 from the floor (17-29) and .846 from the charity stripe (33-39) over three games in Kansas City. Welle has also been selected to the WBCA All-Star team. The team is made up of the top 20 collegiate players and will battle the USA Basketball National Team March 30 in San Antonio, Texas.

The Numbers Game
Tracy Gahan, Lindsey Wilson and Angie Welle each averaged at least 34 minutes per game, with Wilson averaging a team-high 37.2 minutes of action ... Wilson posted 20+ points in 16 games this season, Angie Welle had 20 games of 20+ points ... Iowa State made more free throws (545) than its opponents even attempted (406) ... mostly due to the Cyclones' zone defense, ISU's foes committed an average of 6.4 more fouls per game (445-657) ... the Cyclones committed more fouls than their opponent just four times, losing three of those games ... ISU led its opponents in every (overall) statistical category except fouls, field-goal attempts, offensive rebounds and steals.

Trey Bien
The Cyclones averaged 8.1 3-pointers made per contest, ranking first in the Big 12 Conference ... Iowa State drained 10+ treys in nine games ... ISU shot .400 or better from behind the arc 15 times ... Tracy Gahan and Mary Cofield each drained an individual season-high six 3-pointers in a game this year, with Cofield hitting six twice ... Gahan and Lindsey Wilson had five treys each at Nebraska Jan. 26, the best two-player production behind the arc for the season ... four different Cyclones (Gahan, Wilson, Cofield, Tracy Paustian) made five or more 3-pointers in a single game ... as a team, ISU set a season high with 15 treys vs. Northern Iowa Dec. 22.

The X-Factor
When junior guard Tracy Gahan played well, Iowa State fared well ... while much of the attention was directed at Angie Welle and Lindsey Wilson, the stats show that Gahan may have been the difference-maker ... during ISU's five-game conference win streak, Gahan averaged 20 points, shooting .600 (30-50) from the floor, .571 (12-21) from behind the arc and .903 (28-31) from the free throw line ... the Cyclones went 6-1 when Gahan scored 20 or more points.

The Double Whammie
Perhaps the two biggest problems for ISU in 2001-02 were bench scoring and turnovers ... the Cyclone bench tallied just 12.7 percent of the team's total scoring output (324 of 2549) ... in Big 12 games, the bench points production was just 11.3 percent (137 of 1216) ... ISU struggled to take care of the ball ... after averaging 18.5 turnovers per game in regular-season nonconference contests, the Cyclones averaged 18.6 turnovers per Big 12 game ... ISU's season low was 11 turnovers (at Drake Dec. 5, at KU Feb. 6) ... the Cyclones had a season-high 32 turnovers at Texas A&M (Jan. 12) ... ISU forced more turnovers than it committed in just five games this year.

Where They Rank
Angie Welle was the Big 12 leader in the top three statistical categories: scoring (20.5), rebounding (11.3) and field goal percentage (.661), while also ranking first in defensive rebounds (7.88) ... Welle also owned a conference-best 20 double-doubles ... Lindsey Wilson was the league's third-leading scorer (19.1) ... in the final NCAA individual stats, Welle was first in field goal percentage, 11th in rebounding and 17th in scoring ... Tracy Gahan ranked ninth nationally in 3-point percentage ... Wilson ranked 18th in assists, 30th in scoring and 49th in 3-point percentage ... in the final NCAA team statistics, Iowa State ranked fourth in 3-pointers made per game, fifth in fouls per game, seventh in field goal percentage and rebound margin, 16th in scoring offense, 10th in 3-point percentage, 12th in assists per game, 28th in scoring margin and 66th in free-throw percentage

Iowa State's "Big Three"
Iowa State's offense was powered by Tracy Gahan, Angie Welle and Lindsey Wilson ... all three scored over 1,000 career points at Iowa State, were voted Big 12 Conference Player of the Week and earned academic all-league recognition ... the trio made up 70.5 percent of the team's scoring in 2001-02, including 72.3 percent in league games ... the three players were the only Cyclones averaging double-digit scoring and 34+ minutes of playing time per game ... all three earned tournament MVP honors in 2001-02 ... Gahan was MVP of the Coaches vs. Cancer Challenge, Welle was the top vote-getter of the Pella Corporation Cyclone Classic and Wilson was MVP of the Surf & Slam Hoop Classic.

The Walking Wounded
Redshirt sophomore Erica Junod tore her right ACL in practice Nov. 5 ... surgery (Nov. 9) was successful ... she saw her first action of the season exactly three months later vs. Colorado Feb. 9, playing 15 minutes ... freshman Brittany Wilkins redshirted after having surgery to repair an Osgood-Schlatters condition which plagued her since junior high ... the procedure removed a tibial ossicle (boney formation from years of inflammation and pulling on the patella tendon) ... Angie Welle missed the first practices of her career with back spasms Jan. 3-4 ... she saw just 17 minutes of action Jan. 5 vs. Nebraska ... junior college transfer Melanie Bremer missed seven days of practice in October with a strained Achilles' tendon ... she missed practice Jan. 4 with the flu ... she missed the Jan. 26 Nebraska game with a sprained right ankle ... freshman Mary Fox had chronic low back pain, which limited her practice time ... freshman Tracy Paustian suffered a subluxed patella (knee cap slides out of place slightly) in practice Nov. 6 ... junior point guard Lindsey Wilson had mild tendinitis in her right shoulder and missed the Nov. 11 game to rest the shoulder ... junior Mary Cofield has chondromalacia of the right patella, which is the wearing away of cartilage behind the kneecap ... she played with a swollen knee.

Home Sweet Hilton, Home of the 2002 NCAA Midwest Regional
Iowa State matched a school record with 26 consecutive home wins (Feb. 19, 2000 - Dec. 22, 2001) before losing to Kansas State Jan. 2, 2002 ... the Cyclones are 45-9 against conference foes at home in Bill Fennelly's tenure ... Fennelly owns a perfect record (38-0) in Hilton Coliseum against nonconference regular-season opponents ... his only nonconference home losses were second-round NCAA Tournament games against Rutgers (March 16, 1998) and Brigham Young (March 18, 2002) ... Fennelly's squads have lost just 12 home games overall in his seven seasons in Ames (91-12) ... Iowa State women's basketball enjoyed the nation's fourth-largest attendance average for the third consecutive year in 2001-02, playing in front of 10,296 fans per game.

In the Polls
Iowa State ranked No. 10 in the March 11 Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today polls ... the Cyclones were 16th in the 2002 final coaches poll (April 1)... ISU's No. 4 ranking in both Dec. 31 polls marked the highest ever for the Cyclones ... ISU was voted the No. 8 team in both national preseason polls ... the Cyclones were preseason picks to finish third in the Big 12 Conference standings by both the league coaches and media.

Items of Note from 2001-02
The Cyclones' Jan. 15 victory over No. 3 Oklahoma (82-66) marked the highest ranked opponent Iowa State has ever defeated ... ISU played in three overtime games, matching the mark set by the 1988-89 and 1995-96 teams ... Tracy Gahan became the 14th Cyclone to join the 1,000-point club vs. Eastern Kentucky ... Lindsey Wilson joined the ranks less than one month later, scoring her 1,000th career point at Texas ... Angie Welle became ISU's all-time career rebounding leader vs. San Diego (old record: Megan Taylor's 966); ISU's all-time career scoring leader vs. Nebraska Jan. 26 (old record: Megan Taylor's 1,866) and the school's all-time leader in field goals made at the Big 12 Tournament vs. Colorado March 6 (old record: Tonya Burns 760) ... Iowa State hit on 18-of-23 shots in the second half against Oklahoma Jan. 15, a field-goal percentage of .783 that marked a school record for one half, the previous best being a .769 effort (20-of-26) from the floor in the second half of an 88-73 victory over Baylor on Feb. 24, 1998, in Ames ... the Cyclones closed out their nonconference season with an unblemished 12-0 record, just the second time in school history ISU went undefeated in nonconference regular-season action (1995-96) ... the Cyclones topped Drake, Iowa and Northern Iowa to earn the mythical state championship for the second consecutive season ... Iowa State added three tournament trophies to its cache of hardware, winning the 2001 Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, Pella Corporation Cyclone Classic and Surf & Slam Hoop Classic ... Welle earned all-tournament recognition in two tournaments, including MVP honors at the Cyclone Classic ... Gahan and Wilson were voted onto all-tourney squads twice each, including MVP honors in the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic and Surf & Slam Classic, respectively.

Cyclone Cydnotes for First-Time Viewers
Two-time All-American Angie Welle joined all-conference performers Tracy Gahan and Lindsey Wilson as ISU's returning starters ... the trio represented 57 percent of the Cyclones' scoring and 50 percent of the rebounding from last season ... Iowa State's senior class finished with a four-year record of 103-29 and lost just five home games in their four years, compiling a 58-5 record in Hilton Coliseum ... ISU has been ranked among the top 25 teams nationally in The Associated Press poll every week since Feb. 10, 1998, and every USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll since Nov. 23, 1998 ... ISU has made at least one 3-pointer in 224 consecutive games, dating back to Feb. 15, 1995 (vs. Missouri) ... ISU has posted 20+ wins for five consecutive seasons and six times in program history.

Cyclone Big 12 Conference Players of the Week
Angie Welle was named Big 12 Women's Basketball Player of the Week for games played from December 10-16 ... Welle posted a double-double in each of ISU's three games over that span ... she earned Cyclone Classic MVP honors after averaging 25 points and 13 rebounds in the two tournament games ... she drained 11-of-15 free throws in the championship game ... over the three-game span, she averaged 24.7 points and 14.3 rebounds, hit 75 percent of her shots from the floor (24-32), and 80.6 percent from the charity stripe (25-31) ... she also totaled four blocked shots, six steals and three assists ... Lindsey Wilson was named the Big 12 Conference Co-Player of the Week for games played from December 3-9, sharing the honor with Oklahoma's LaNeishea Caufield ... Wilson scored a career-high 28 points at No. 24 Drake, sinking a career-best 11 shots and added eight assists, five rebounds and two steals with just two turnovers in 38 minutes of action ... she scored 23 points at Northwestern, draining 6-of-6 free throws and 3-of-4 treys ... her six charity shots came at the end of the game, halting a Wildcat comeback that got within four points ... Wilson also dished a season-high 10 assists and collected five steals at Northwestern while playing all 40 minutes for the second time in her career ... Tracy Gahan was named Big 12 Women's Basketball Player of the Week for games played from Jan. 28-Feb. 3 ... Gahan scored 20-plus points in a three-game span, helping Iowa State to victories over Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas State ... she did not miss a free throw (15-of-15) during a five-game stretch (Jan. 15-Feb. 2) ... Gahan posted her second double-double of the season and the seventh of her career at No. 9 Kansas State with 21 points and 11 rebounds ... she sank 15-of-24 from the floor (.625) and made 4-of-6 3-pointers (.667) in the wins over Missouri and Kansas State ... Gahan averaged 22 points, 8.5 rebounds, 6.0 assists, two steals and 38 minutes and was a perfect 10-of-10 from the charity stripe in both wins.