Mike Hlas

The attendance for the Iowa State-North Carolina/Baylor-Creighton NCAA tourney third-round twinbill Sunday in San Antonio’s AT&T Center was 13,431. Whew, …

So, Iowa State more or less has to play a road game in the Sweet 16. The Cyclones face Connecticut …

SAN ANTONIO – Seventeen points, four minutes, zero panic. You’ve seen a lot of teams that would be trailing by …

SAN ANTONIO — There are a lot of cool cities that start with “San,” including this one. There’s San Francisco, …

SAN ANTONIO – There are plenty of basketball fans in Iowa who have little time for Marcus Paige since he …

SAN ANTONIO — They were playing so well. He was playing so well. Iowa State sophomore forward Georges Niang had …

SAN ANTONIO — Iowa State forward Georges Niang suffered a fractured fifth metatarsal — a long bone — in his …

(A followup column from me on Georges Niang’s broken bone in his right foot will be found on the Hlog …

SAN ANTONIO — I’ve held off on writing about Fran McCaffery’s 14-year-old son, Patrick, for a couple of reasons. First, …

SAN ANTONIO — It’s the San Antonio in Texas, not the one in Puerto Rico. I’ve been to Puerto Rico …

SAN ANTONIO – When it was time Thursday for two North Carolina Central basketball players to sit at an NCAA …

SAN ANTONIO – How much does Creighton University think of former Linn-Mar basketball player Grant Gibbs? Enough to turn this …

The story of Iowa’s basketball season can perhaps be neatly defined by this: The Hawkeyes were in the NCAA tournament, …

It’s the first First Four Fun Facts in Hlog history. I covered the NCAA tournament in Dayton last year. The …

Ideally, I’d like to cover Iowa against Iowa State in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament championship game. Not because I’m …