Articles Tagged: Iowa State men’s basketball

When Iowa State lost its top-two scoring guards to graduation, it plucked three highly valued guards from the transfer portal. Here’s what head coach T.J. Otzelberger said about the newcomers during a Cyclone Tailgate Tour stop.

It’s abundantly clear Iowa State men’s basketball head coach T.J. Otzelberger has accomplished plenty in his first two seasons — and now he’ll have at least six more seasons to potentially add to his list of plaudits.

Iowa State needed help in backcourt after loss of Jaren Holmes and Gabe Kalscheur

Iowa State shot an inexplicable 23.3 percent from the field, going 2-for-21 on 3-pointers in a 59-41 loss to Pittsburgh in the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

Iowa State is done with the gauntlet that became the Big 12 Conference men’s basketball schedule and navigated out of a brutal February stretch of results. Perhaps no team is more thrilled to take a whiff of the NCAA tournament air.

Iowa State is seeded sixth and will play either Pittsburgh or Mississippi State in the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

Prognosticators vary, but the general consensus has the Iowa State men’s basketball team anywhere from a No. 5 seed to a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament going into Selection Sunday.

The Iowa State Cyclones erased an eight-point halftime deficit in Saturday’s Big 12 tournament semifinal against No. 3 Kansas, but couldn’t sustain that energy and fell, 71-58, at the T-Mobile Center.

In 18 games with the NBA G League’s Wisconsin Herd this season, former Cyclone Lindell Wigginton is averaging 18.8 points, 5.7 assists, 3.7 rebounds, and 1.0 steals per game.

The once-struggling Iowa State men’s basketball team has beaten Baylor in back-to-back games after dropping six of its previous seven. The Cyclones advanced to the Big 12 tournament semifinals with a 78-72 win Thursday.

Gabe Kalscheur wasn’t surprised the revamped Iowa State men’s basketball team — which starts Big 12 tournament play at 11:30 a.m. Thursday against No. 10 Baylor — could come together and have success on a scale few viewed as possible.

Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger got everyone involved in the regular-season finale, and the Cyclones got a big boost going into the Big 12 tournament after the dismissal of one of their key players.

Adversity comes in a variety of forms — and the Iowa State men’s basketball team in the teeth of it as it prepares for Saturday’s regular-season finale at No. 7 Baylor.

Iowa State men’s basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger announced Wednesday afternoon in a statement that Caleb Grill had been dismissed from the team “due to a failure to meet the program’s expectations.”

The Iowa State Cyclones did a lot of the things that led to a 4-0 start in Big 12 men’s basketball play and a top-12 ranking nationally Monday night against West Virginia. They simply didn’t do any of them well enough to win.