Half of the Iowa State men’s basketball team’s six Big 12 wins have come by four or points or less, so one could expect chronic stress to ripple through the lineup. That would be an erroneous assumption, at least for true freshman point guard Tamin Lipsey.
Iowa State wrestler Marcus Coleman attained All-America honors for the first time last season. He’s a four-time NCAA qualifier and currently ranked fourth nationally at 184 pounds. And both he and Coach Kevin Dresser believe the best is yet to come as his final collegiate season winds toward March.
This week’s episode of the Pinning Combination podcast with The Gazette’s K.J. Pilcher and Hall of Fame coach Dick Briggs features a preview of Friday’s No. 2-vs.-No. 1 dual between Iowa and Penn State.
Jaren Holmes scored 18 of his Iowa State career high-tying 23 points in the second half of an 80-76 win over No. 5 Kansas State that catapulted the 12th-ranked Cyclones into a tie atop the Big 12 standings.
Emily Ryan is the most durable player for the No. 18-ranked Iowa State women’s basketball team. She ranks first in the Big 12 in minutes played per game, and she’ll almost certainly be on the floor every second she’s needed in Wednesday’s 6:30 p.m. matchup with TCU.
There’s never an easy night for No. 12 Cyclone men, or any other team in the league. Cyclones host No. 5 Kansas State on Tuesday
AMES — It’s not often that Ashley Joens is stuck in a shooting slump. It’s rarer still that those struggles …
Avery Anderson scored 18 points, including the go-ahead free throws, and Oklahoma State defeated No. 12 Iowa State 61-59 on Saturday for its first win over a ranked team this season.
Four different Iowa State men’s basketball players have led the team in scoring multiple times — and that wide-ranging offensive output helps explain how the 12th-ranked Cyclones have become more dangerous on both ends of the floor.
Bill Fennelly will be back coaching the Iowa State women’s basketball team in Saturday’s 5 p.m. matchup with Kansas. He missed Wednesday’s 69-64 win over Oklahoma State while mourning the loss of his mother, Carol, who passed away last Sunday. She was 85.
Emily Ryan scored 14 points, reserve Nyamer Diew had eight of her 12 in the fourth quarter and No. 18 Iowa State defeated Oklahoma State 69-64 on Wednesday night.
This week’s Pinning Combination podcast starts with some reminiscing — our favorite wrestling memories in 40 years of Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Plus, we look back at the week in college and high school wrestling in Iowa.
Jaren Holmes scored 21 points and No. 12 Iowa State defeated No. 7 Texas 78-67 on Tuesday night.
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