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HOOPSMonday, Nov. 11, 2013 Into the SPOTLIGHT 11.11.13 HOOPS High Gloss Pages.indd 1 10/30/13 9:58 AM 02 | HOOPS | Iowa State Daily | Monday, Nov. 11, 2013 Live on Campus Meet New Friends Earn a Higher GPA Hang Out Over 11,000 Cyclones call us home. Students who live on campus have higher GPAs, report being more involved and are more likely to graduate from Iowa Get Involved State than their peers who live off campus. We’re dedicated to helping students succeed! Editor: Dead Berhow-Goll | Monday, Nov. 11, 2013 | Iowa State Daily | HOOPS | 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Iowa State Daily Members of Cyclone Alley at Hilton Coliseum wear gold shirts during the “Gold Rules” men’s game against Kansas in January 2012. Cyclone Alley is one of basketball’s more popular traditions. Games to watch Team rosters Coach Q&A’s Both Bill Fennelly and Fred Hoiberg Turn here to see what specific games we After a lot of roster turnover, the men’s and have gained a reputation as two of pick as our biggest matchups of the season. women’s teams both feature several new the best in the Big 12. Read here Remember Kansas last year? We think you’ll players. Check out who is expected to start what they expect moving forward 4 want to make sure to be in attendance this year. 8 and who is new to cardinal and gold. 12 into this 2013 basketball season. Hallie Christofferson Melvin Ejim Impact freshmen Through most of Hallie Christofferson’s Last year the Toronto native was an The men’s and women’s team have basketball career, she’s played behind bigger underrated piece playing behind the five brought in consensus top-100 fresh- names like Chelsea Poppens and Kelsey senior transfers. This year, the Big 12’s men. Find out more about Matt Thomas, 5 Bolte. This year, she steps into the spotlight. 9 double-double leader steps to center stage. 14 Monte Morris and Jadda Buckley. 4 | HOOPS | Iowa State Daily | Monday, Nov. 11, 2013 GAMES TO WATCH Men’s Women’s Michigan Nov. 17 Oklahoma Jan. 21 Michigan lost Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr. The Sooners enter the season as the Big 12 coaches’ pick to win to the NBA. But Mitch McGary and Glenn Robin- the league and ranked No. 14 in the USA Today Coaches Poll. son III also could have gone to the NBA yet Iowa State beat Oklahoma three times last season, including a opted to stay. Nik Stauskas and his 44 percent second round win by the Cyclones in the Big 12 tournament. from 3-point returns to a potent Michigan attack. Kansas Jan. 13 Baylor March 4 Everyone remembers last year’s two games: Iowa State will take on Baylor at home for its last regular- the Ben McLemore bank-in 3-pointer and the season game. Baylor was picked to finish second in the Big Georges Niang block under the hoop. Let’s be 12 this season. The Cyclones lost to the Bears 75-47 in Big 12 honest: You won’t want to miss a national title championship game last year. Baylor graduated the confer- contender featuring the best prospect in the ence’s leading scorer in Brittney Griner, but the preseason entire country, Andrew Wiggins. 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Hallie Christofferson. As long as she is in Relatively soft-spo- an ISU uniform and mak- ken, the 6-foot-3-inch se- ing shots, ISU coach Bill nior on the ISU women’s Fennelly doesn’t care if File: Jonathan Krueger/Iowa State Daily 6 | HOOPS | Iowa State Daily | Monday, Nov. 11, 2013 “EVERY PLAY WE RUN, the first option is for her. Every play if we can do something off of that, we will, BUT THAT’S WHERE YOU’VE GOT TO START.” – BILL FENNELLY she says a word. He even joked will have to run or will have to she would finish with more wait another possession to take points than words spoken in a break. her career. Whenever that drill comes But that’s fine; he can do up in practices, there is only one the talking for her. place the ball seems to go in “I joke that we could prac- Fennelly’s mind: Christofferson tice in the library because we’re in her No. 5 jersey. so quiet,” Fennelly said. “I don’t Fennelly’s challenge to like it, but that’s the way it is. I Christofferson in those situa- think [Hallie’s] communication tions isn’t having her make an is more what’s going on in [the open shot. locker room] than on the court. The real challenge comes She’ll walk up to Nikki [Moody] when Christofferson finds her- and say call this play. self under duress when shoot- “It’s not a rah-rah-let’s-go ing and making the tough shots kind of thing.” when her team needs her to, Following a breakout junior instead of passing along the season in which Christofferson duty to someone else. Through was a unanimous All-Big 12 the beginning of her senior First Team selection, she led the campaign, Christofferson has Cyclones in field-goal percent- accepted the responsibility of age (.516), 3-point percentage being the one her teammates (.401), free-throw percentage look to. (.862) and points per game “Every play we run, the first (15.6), a new task is ahead option is for her. Every play,” of her. Fennelly said of Christofferson. After playing alongside “If we can do something off of former players like Chelsea that, we will, but that’s where Poppens and Anna Prins for the you’ve got to start. The good first three years, Christofferson thing about it is our players will now have to step into the understand that; they believe spotlight. Being the new face in her and trust her; and she’s of the team is a process she earned that over four years. doesn’t think will happen right That didn’t happen her first away, but she has been able year; it took awhile. to learn from the examples of “Now it’s her turn to be Poppens and Prins. that kind of person.” “I don’t really try to put Christofferson’s home- much on myself, because if I town of Hamlin, Iowa, is a think about it too much, then small one, with roughly 252 I’m just going to think about it residents. Christofferson went too much and not play well,” to high school in Exira, where Christofferson said of the pres- she starred and led her team to sure this season. “So I’ll just go a 26-0 record her senior year. out every game and every prac- She was also captain of the tice with a clear mind, just look- Class 1A all-tournament team ing forward and trying to have as well as its MVP as a senior. fun with my teammates.” Leading her team and be- In Iowa State’s practices, ing the face of a squad is noth- Iowa State Daily Fennelly runs a drill. If the ing new to Christofferson, just Bill Fennelly speaks with then-sophomore Hallie Christofferson during the 2012 game against Kansas State. offense doesn’t score on the the setting has changed. The following season as a junior, Christofferson would become a unanimous All-Big 12 First Team selection. current possession, the team After seeing Christofferson Monday, Nov. 11, 2013 | Iowa State Daily | HOOPS | 7 score her 2,000th high school for our program. It gives everyone point with his wife Deb, Fennelly something to look up to.” was asked a question. In her 86 games as a starter “You think she can handle the for the Cyclones, Christofferson Big 12?” Deb said after watching has stayed true to her quiet de- Christofferson’s performance.