Iowa State men’s basketball notes: First-year head coach T.J. Otzelberger was an assistant coach for the 2016 Sweet 16 run to Chicago — and the irony of being back in a program-leading role, albeit with a very different team, isn’t lost on him.
At his third college basketball stop, Izaiah Brockington is a leader and standard-bearer for an Iowa State program that is in the midst of the biggest turnaround in school history.
Iowa State men’s basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger says he didn’t sell ISU to transfers, he challenged them.
Iowa State has turned scoffs and slights into this turnaround season’s lifeblood. Now the Cyclones are one win from reaching the Elite Eight for just the second time in the modern era.
Nathan Ford and Mike Hlas discuss how Iowa’s basketball teams were upset by Richmond and Creighton, how the ISU men's program turned around after a 2-22 season and what's next for both Cyclone teams.
How to watch the NCAA men’s basketball Sweet 16 game between Iowa State and Miami, as the Cyclones seek their first Elite Eight berth since 2000.
After going 2-22 in the 2020-21 season, the Iowa State men’s basketball team has embraced the defense-first identity that led it to the Sweet 16 in 2022.
In another neck-and-neck, defense-heavy game, No. 11-seeded Iowa State upset No. 3-seeded Wisconsin. It came despite playing in a hostile environment.
As Iowa State freshman guard Tyrese Hunter plays close to his Wisconsin home, he’s finding his figurative home on the court as well.
Up became down and down became up for Iowa and Iowa State in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
A two-play sequence in the second half of Iowa State’s March Madness win over LSU was what head coach T.J. Otzelberger described as an “unbelievable life lesson” for Caleb Grill.
Some Iowa State players aren’t completely new to March Madness, but they have traveled circuitous paths to return to it.
Iowa State men’s basketball is dancing for the first time in three years. The Cyclones, a No. 11 seed, will open tournament play Friday against sixth-seeded LSU in Milwaukee.
Iowa State has lost three straight games, including a 72-41 Big 12 tournament quarterfinal loss to Texas Tech, and sloppy play on both ends of the floor is the primary reason why.
Tyrese Hunter, the Big 12 freshman of the year, is the only rookie among the league’s top 10 leaders in assists. He often serves as the bellwether for Iowa State in this resurgent yet mercurial season.
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