• Texas Southern will have a brunch outing Tuesday morning as they prepare to face Iowa State at 11 a.m. Tuesday's game is the second of a busy stretch which has the Tigers playing four games in nine days in three states and three time zones.
• Second-year head coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke returns to the TSU sidelines for the first time since 2011-12. She spent the 2011-12 season at TSU and led them to the SWAC Regular Season Championship for the first time in school history.
• Guard Ciani Cryor is off a sizzling start as she's averaging 24 points, 4.5 rebounds, 6.5 assists and five steals in two games.
• Head coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke is 36-34 all-time in the month of November and 2-6 at TSU.
• Cooper-Dyke is 1-12 all-time against the BIG 12 with the lone win against West Virginia while at USC. She last played Iowa State in 2008 while head coach at Prairie View A&M.
• This marks the second meeting between both schools as Iowa State is 1-0 all-time. The last meeting was in 2003 as ISU head coach Bill Fennelly was on the sidelines then.
• Iowa State has already played one SWAC team in Southern this season and will play two more in TSU and Arkansas-Pine Bluff. ISU is 13-0 all-time against the SWAC.
• Senior forward Niya Mitchell completed the trifecta as she was named the SWAC's Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year in addition to earning first team honors. A 5-10 senior from Bay City, Texas, Mitchell averaged a double-double last season, scoring 14.4 points and 10.7 rebounds per contest.
• TSU was picked fifth in the Southwestern Athletic Conference preseason poll after finishing the 2018-19 season in fifth.
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