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Sleep can wait for the Iowa State women’s basketball team after a late-night NCAA Tournament first-round win over UT Arlington. The Cyclones move on to face Georgia on Sunday.

Iowa State narrowly missed advancing to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2010 a year ago, but now embarks on a new postseason quest beginning with Friday’s first-round tournament game against UT-Arlington at Hilton Coliseum.

Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly has taken 20 Cyclones teams to the NCAA Tournament and he said it’s like Christmas every time.

Ashley Joens scored 33 points, but Iowa State fell to Texas, 82-73 in overtime, in the semifinals of the Big 12 women’s basketball tournament.

It’s full-go this year at the Big 12 tournament for the 10th-ranked Iowa State women’s basketball team and its fans, who will give this group of ISU seniors its first so-called “Hilton South” experience Friday.

The 3-pointers were falling and Iowa State’s best players performed like it Wednesday in a 77-62 women’s basketball win over Kansas.

Ashley Joens called last week the toughest the Iowa State women’s basketball team has faced all season. Lexi Donarski and Emily Ryan are helping the team move on.

With Ashley and Aubrey Joens out due to COVID-19 protocols, the Iowa State women’s basketball team didn’t have enough firepower to beat Texas at Hilton Coliseum on Wednesday.

Ashley Joens will likely finish her Iowa State women’s basketball career as the program’s leading scorer. But it’s what Joens has done in every other area of the game that most impresses her head coach.

The key to Iowa State’s unbeaten start in Big 12 women’s basketball play? A collective short memory span.

Morgan Kane scored a career-high 17 points and No. 12 Iowa State cruised past TCU, 78-47.

Emily Ryan set a single-game assists record and Iowa State opened Big 12 women’s basketball play with a win over West Virginia.

Iowa State buries 19 3-pointers in the final game before Big 12 schedule begins on Jan. 2.

Coach Bill Fennelly reminded his team for days what was at stake, then the No. 15 Cyclones went out and got their first in-state sweep since 2013

Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder was unhappy with the free-throw discrepancy in Iowa State’s 77-70 victory.