Keshon Gilbert and Tamin Lipsey — along with sixth man Curtis Jones — are adept at speeding opponents up and forcing live ball turnovers. Showcasing those qualities will be key for Iowa State in Saturday’s NCAA tournament second-round game against Washington State.
The head coach and a starting guard for South Dakota State used the same two words as a possibility for the Cyclones after ISU’s 82-65 first-round NCAA tourney win over the Jackrabbits: National championship
A 12-0 run essentially sealed second-seeded Iowa State’s 82-65 first-round NCAA tournament win Thursday over 15th-seeded South Dakota State. ISU shot a torrid 58 percent overall and 47.3 percent from 3-point range.
Hason Ward’s journey to Iowa State included a stop at Virginia Commonwealth as well as a visa-related ordeal. But now that he’s in his second and final season with the Cyclones, he’s become one of the team’s major X-factors off the bench.
Iowa State will face the program that gave T.J. Otzelberger his first college head coaching job — South Dakota State — in Thursday’s first-round NCAA tournament game in Omaha. And suffice it to say, Otzelberger’s ties to the 15th-seeded Jackrabbits and head coach Eric Henderson still run deep.
At least four of the state of Iowa’s Division I basketball teams head to the NCAA tournament, and there isn’t a one of them that hasn’t already done big things
The seventh-ranked Iowa State Cyclones steamrolled the shell-shocked Houston Cougars, 69-41, for the Big 12 men’s basketball tournament championship Saturday at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, a.k.a “Hilton South.”
Keshon Gilbert complied a sterling stat line of 20 points, seven rebounds and seven assists as seventh-ranked Iowa State beat No. 14 Baylor, 76-62, Friday night in a Big 12 Tournament semifinal game to reach the conference title game for the first time since the 2018-19 season
Robert Jones erupted for a conference career-high 18 points as second-seeded Iowa State surged past Kansas State, 76-57, in a Big 12 men’s basketball quarterfinal game at T-Mobile Center
Iowa State begins the Big 12 men’s basketball tournament Thursday as rested and recuperated as possible in the thick of March. And once that bell rings for the first of potentially three straight games in as many days, the Cyclones will lean on what got them here: A grit-based, no-surrender approach that serves as their competitive foundation.
Iowa State entered Saturday’s Big 12 regular-season finale at Kansas State clinging to hopes of sharing the league title for the first time since 2000-01. Instead, the sixth-ranked Cyclones fell, 65-58, while suffering just their second loss in the past 10 games.
Curtis Jones scored a Big 12-season-high 18 points in Iowa State’s comeback win over BYU — and on Saturday he’ll face the first conference foe he accomplished that feat against when the Cyclones face Kansas State.
Iowa State point guard Tamin Lipsey notched his best game of the Big 12 season in Wednesday’s pulse-pounding 68-63 comeback win over No. 20 BYU on senior night at Hilton Coliseum.
Sixth-ranked Iowa State came from 14 points down to silence No. 20 BYU down the stretch and seal an 18-0 home record in its Hilton Coliseum season finale.
Iowa State senior forward Robert Jones became one of the first players to transfer into then-first-year coach T.J. Otzelberger’s men’s basketball program for one overarching reason: “I always wanted to change a culture.”
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