Men's Basketball | 12/9/2017 9:21:00 AM

Alcorn Looks to Cool Off Iowa State Sunday

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AIMES, Iowa – After a nine-day layoff, the Alcorn State University men's basketball program returns to the court Sunday when it travels to Iowa State at 5 p.m. at Hilton Coliseum.
 
The Cyclones (6-2) are seeking their seventh consecutive win. The streak includes victories over Iowa, Boise State and Tulsa.
 
The Braves (2-7) are coming off a lopsided 89-50 win over Rust College on Dec. 1. Four different student-athletes registered career-highs in scoring for Alcorn.
 
Alcorn will play against its first Division I opponent without senior Reginal Johnson. Tragedy struck at Tulane when Johnson broke his right leg after coming down awkwardly on a put-back attempt. Johnson, the 2017-18 SWAC Preseason Player of the Year, is expected to miss the remainder of the season.
 
Senor A.J. Mosby has taken the lead for Alcorn and leads the conference in assist:turnover ratio with a 3.1 mark. He's also third in the league in both field goal percentage (.512) and assists (3.4 apg), and is fourth in steals (1.7 spg).
 
As a team, the Braves lead the conference in assists (14.6 apg), assist:turnover ratio (1.0), field goal percentage (.415) and three-pointers made per game (8.3).
 
Sophomore Yalen Reed, the SWAC Preseason Co-Defensive Player of the Year, ranks top-five in the league in blocks. He's swatted away 10 in nine games. Reed is coming off a career game against Rust where he tallied 20 points and 13 rebounds.
 
The Cyclones are coached by Steve Prohm who carries a .679 winning percentage which is the best in school history. The guard trio of Nick Weiler-Babbb, Donovan Jackson and Lindell Wigginton combine for 46.6 points per game which is 59.8 percent of the team's scoring. They've posted all nine of ISU's 20-point games and five of the team's six double-doubles this season. 
 
Weiler-Babb's 7.8 assists per game rank fifth nationally. Wigginton is one of just five players nationally to post two games this season with at least 20 points, five rebounds, four assists and four made threes. He's scored 20 points in three consecutive games. In the last six games, Jackson is averaging 20.2 points.
 
The game can be watched on Cyclones.tv with John Walters and Eric Heft on the call.
 
NOTES
- Sunday marks just the second-ever meeting between Alcorn and Iowa State. The Cyclones finished on top 87-58 in the season-opener in 1996-97.
 
- Alcorn is looking for its first non-conference win over a Division I school since Nov. 22, 2012 when it defeated Samford 69-65. Prior to that, the Braves beat Jacksonville State 70-68 on Dec. 13, 2003. The last time Alcorn topped a school from a Power Five conference was in 1990-91 over Indiana 79-77.
 
- Alcorn opened the season with a grueling five-game road trip which featured games in five different states in 10 days.
 
- Mosby is seeking his fifth double-figure scoring game in the last six matches. He averages 12.1 points per game and is shooting .833 (10-12) from the free throw line.
 
- Sophomore Maurice Howard is coming off a career-game of 23 points against Rust where he went 7-10 from three-point range. Howard is shooting .408 (20-49) from beyond-the-arc this season and has not missed a free throw (8-8).
 
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