Articles Tagged: Iowa State women’s basketball

Lexi Donarski — the 2022 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year — will look to play elsewhere for her senior season.

Iowa State women’s basketball star Stephanie Soares won’t be coming back for another year.

Ashley Joens, Iowa State’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder took the floor for what proved to be the last time in an ISU uniform Saturday, as her fifth-seeded team fell, 80-73, to 12th-seeded Toledo at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tenn.

Denae Fritz is back in Tennessee, ready to help lead No. 5-seed Iowa State against 12-seed Toledo at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in a first-round NCAA women’s basketball tournament matchup at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville.

Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly’s career had come full circle, as the surging fifth-seed Cyclones will face No. 12-seed Toledo — the first school that gave him a head coaching job 35 years ago — in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Former Iowa City High standout Ashley Joens led Iowa State to a Big 12 tournament title in a 61-51 win over Texas.

Ashley Joens became the 14th player in NCAA women’s basketball history to score 3,000 points in Iowa State’s 82-72 Big 12 tournament semifinal win over No. 14 Oklahoma.

Ashley Joens hit seven 3-pointers and finished with 30 points to spark Iowa State to a 74-63 win over Baylor in a Big 12 Conference Tournament quarterfinal game on Friday night.

Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly is convinced most of the league’s teams could potentially challenge for the Big 12 tournament title.

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Ashley Joens recorded her 62nd career double-double to help the No. 23-ranked Iowa State women’s basketball team lambast Texas Tech, 76-52, before a Hilton Coliseum Senior Day crowd of 11,858.

Ashley Joens — who rewrote the Iowa State women’s basketball record book — has become the program’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder by a wide margin and will play her last regular-season game at Hilton Coliseum on Saturday.

Girls’ state basketball notes: Examining the evolution of Algona Garrigan star post Audi Crooks.

Inside or outside. On the move or spotted up. Iowa State women’s basketball all-time leading scorer Ashley Joens was so good, it didn’t matter where her shots came from in an 85-56 win over TCU.

Morgan Kane’s been asked to play many roles in her Iowa State career. She’s back in the spotlight, coming off a season-high 16 point-performance in the Cyclones’ 73-68 loss Wednesday at Oklahoma State.