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Iowa State Women Earn Fifth Straight Win Over Kansas
(Ames, IA) – The Cyclones had a dominant performance against the Jayhawks as they finished Wednesday night 69-61. This is now the fifth straight win for Iowa State and they’re now 2-0 in Big XII play.
Hannah Belanger led Iowa State in scoring with 19 points and six three-pointers in the game. She beat her previous season highs and brought her career total to 2,000 points as she is now the 14th active player to earn the achievement. Addy Brown was right behind her with a double-double in the game as she put down 14 points and grabbed 13 boards. Brown also pitched out four assists and swiped away two steals. Freshman Audi Crooks put down her 12th-straight double-digit game with 11 points and pulled down six rebounds.
S’Mya Nichols led the Jayhawks with 16 points and also grabbed six boards. Behind Nichols was Zakiyah Franklin who knocked in 15 points and grabbed three rebounds while also grasping away two steals. Kansas was also led by Holly Kersgieter also was able to put down 14 points and pull in four rebounds in the game. Kansas was limited to 37.7% from the field and went just 8-25 from the perimeter.
Iowa State was able to continue their consecutive streak of 907 games with at least one three-pointer. The Cyclones now lead the all-time series as they are up 49-48 overall. They have now won the last 17 of 18 games against Kansas this season. Kansas was also outrebounded by Iowa State with a 40-27 Cyclone advantage. Audi Crooks also knocked in her 200th point as a Cyclone. The freshman has made the fifth most field goals by a freshman in Iowa State history.
The Cyclones will be taking on BYU in Utah this Saturday, January 6th at 5:00 p.m.
(Information provided by cyclones.com)
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Decatur County duo arrested after alleged robbery in Iowa Wednesday, police say
WEST DES MOINES, Ia. (WCTV) – Two people from Decatur County were arrested in Iowa Wednesday, and face charges related to an alleged robbery, according to a press release from the West Des Moines Police Department.
Daniel Mathes of Bainbridge is charged with robbery in the second degree and theft in the first degree. Lisa Haire of Climax is charged with aiding and abetting robbery in the second degree and aiding and abetting theft in the first degree.
Late Wednesday afternoon, police responded to a call of a robbery at a bank, according to authorities. No one was injured, and police determined Mathes and Haire suspects related to the incident, police say.
They were later pulled over by Iowa State Patrol on I-80, and arrested without incident, according to authorities.
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Iowa State vs. Utah score prediction by expert football model
A notable late-season Big 12 matchup kicks off this weekend as No. 22 Iowa State goes on the road against Utah. Let’s check in with the latest prediction for the game from an expert analytical football model that projects scores and picks winners.
Iowa State sits in a two-way tie for third-place in the Big 12 standings after a two-game losing skid that came to an end last weekend, but the Cyclones need help getting to the league title game.
Utah was the preseason favorite to win the Big 12 Championship Game, but slid to just 1-6 in conference play and is on a six-game losing streak, not having won since late September, against Oklahoma State, the other worst team in the league this season.
What do the analytical models suggest for when the Cyclones and Utes square off in this Big 12 matchup?
For that, let’s turn to the SP+ prediction model to get a preview of how Iowa State and Utah compare in this Week 13 college football game.
As expected, the models are siding with the Cyclones against the Utes, but by a close margin.
SP+ predicts that Iowa State will defeat Utah by a projected score of 24 to 20 and to win the game by an expected margin of 4.1 points in the process.
The model gives the Cyclones a solid 60 percent chance of outright victory against the Utes.
SP+ is a “tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency” that attempts to predict game outcomes by measuring “the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football.”
How good is it this season? So far, the SP+ model is 315-293-8 against the spread with a 51.8 win percentage after going 23-30 (43.4%) last weekend.
Iowa State is a 7.5 point favorite against Utah, according to the updated lines posted to FanDuel Sportsbook for the game.
FanDuel lists the total at 41.5 points for the game (Over -110, Under -110).
And it set the moneyline odds for Iowa State at -280 and for Utah at +225 to win outright.
If you’re using this prediction to bet on the game, you should take …
If you do, you’ll be in the company of a minority of bettors, most of whom expect the Cyclones to dominate the Utes, according to the latest spread consensus picks for the game.
Iowa State is getting 62 percent of bets to win the game and cover the spread in the process.
The other 38 percent of wagers project Utah will either win outright in an upset or keep the game under 8 points in a loss.
Most other analytical football models also favor the Cyclones against the Utes this weekend.
That includes the College Football Power Index, a computer prediction model that uses data points from both teams to simulate games 20,000 times to pick winners.
Iowa State is the favorite in the game, coming out ahead in the majority 63.2 percent of the computer’s most recent simulations of the matchup.
That leaves Utah as the presumptive winner in the other 36.8 percent of sims for the game.
How does that translate to an expected margin of victory in the matchup?
Iowa State is projected to be 4.8 points better than Utah on the same field in both teams’ current composition, according to the model’s latest forecast.
Iowa State is fourth among Big 12 teams with a 9.5 percent chance to qualify for the College Football Playoff, according to the FPI’s metrics.
That model forecasts the Cyclones will win 9.3 games this season.
Colorado (34.3%) leads the Big 12 in the playoff race, according to the index projections, followed by BYU (31.1%) and Arizona State (13.5%).
Utah has two games left to become bowl eligible, but the index doesn’t foresee that happening.
FPI projects the Utes will win 4.7 games and have an 11.9 percent chance to make a bowl game.
When: Sat., Nov. 23
Where: Salt Lake City, Utah
Time: 6:30 p.m. CT | 5:30 p.m. MT
TV: Fox network
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