It's been a good 24 hours for Iowa State basketball

Iowa State's young men's basketball team got a little older and a good bit better Thursday with the news Marshall transfer guard DeAndre Kane would join the Cyclones for his senior season.

Kane is a 6-foot-4 senior-to-be who is a proven player. He averaged 15.1 points and 7.0 assists for Marshall of Conference USA, and has played college ball extensively for three years. He has already graduated, thus he is eligible to play right away for the Cyclones.

He will become the latest of Fred Hoiberg's one-year wonders, a list that includes Royce White and Will Clyburn. Things worked out mighty well with those two fellows at ISU.

Memphis and Pittsburgh (Kane's hometown) made plays for him, but Hoiberg had a lot to sell.

“They do a great job with transfers over the last couple years. Anybody that watches Iowa State has seen that. They know all the guys that came from others schools got a good chance of either making the NBA or overseas makes some money or graduating."

“Their style of play is my style of play. They open the floor, spread the floor out and just go. (Hoiberg) wants you to go and get after it. I like that.”

With Chris Babb, Korie Lucious and Tyrus McGee all gone to graduation, the Cyclones certainly can use a veteran guard to go with the inexperienced ones -- two first-year freshman in Monte Morris and Matt Thomas and redshirt frosh Sherron Dorsey-Walker -- he'll have on board next season.

A great outside shooter, Kane is not. He averaged 24.8 percent from 3-point rangeand 52.1 percent from the free-throw line last season. But he can score, and he can set up scorers. You can never have too many guys like that.

Kane had seven technical fouls in the 2011-12 season. He had just one last season.

Whether he meshes with the team or has the kind of impact as, say, Clyburn, who knows? But seniors with second-homes tend to be focused. The relalization they need to show pro basketball people positive things about them as players and people hits home.

Another move that has great significance for Hoiberg's program is the hiring of Doc Sadler as assistant coach to replace the departed T.J. Otzelberger, who had so much to do with ISU recruiting under Greg McDermott and Hoiberg. Otzelberger took a similar position at the University of Washington.

Sadler had been director of basketball operations for one season at Kansas after getting fired as Nebraska's head coach. To say he knows his way around the Big 12 is an understatement.

Sadler is 52. He had a 101-89 record in six seasons at Nebraska. Good get.