ISU hoops notes: Mayor heads to the Hall and Royce White from 3 (again)

AMES - Fred Hoiberg's headed for the hall.

The National Federation of High School Associations announced Thursday the former Ames Little Cyclone and second-year Iowa State coach would be inducted into the organization's prep Hall of Fame this summer in Nashville, Tenn.

"It's a great honor and two other Iowa State guys are in it, Gary Thompson and Dan Gable," Hoiberg said Thursday. "I have tremendous respect for those guys and what they've accomplished in their lives. I'm humbled by it."

Hoiberg led Ames to a state basketball title in 1991.

He also played quarterback for the Little Cyclones before becoming a record-setting ISU guard, then graduating to a long-tenured NBA career.

"I'm really looking forward to the ceremony in Nashville in July," said Hoiberg, a former Cyclone ball boy. "So it's a great honor. It's something that you look at my upbringing, going to high school at Ames High - smaller community where I was able to play multiple sports and at the same time really focus on being a student and I think that all paid off.”

The ceremony will be July 11.

FIVE EXTRA FEET: Royce White drained a pair of 3-pointers in Wednesday's loss at No. 8 Missouri.

The big man's shooting 36.4 percent (4 of 11) from distance entering Saturday night's matchup with No. 9 Baylor.

So what gives?

"It's just (30) games in," said White, who didn't play a competitive game for two years. "I'm still shaking the rust off. At the beginning of the year, selfishly, I didn't want to say I was still rusty from sitting out two years, but the more the season goes on, you realize what you can do and you realize,  looking back, at what you weren't doing. And I'm still not doing everything I can do as far personally and individually on the court, but I'm still getting there and shooting's just a part of that.”

 BEAR DOWN: White on what's necessary to bite the Bears Saturday: "Just have more fight, have more hunger. And I think we do this time."