Rob Gray

Momcilovic matched, then passed the late former Cyclone great Dedric Willoughby for made 3s in a single season during his team's workmanlike 75-59 win over the Utes Tuesday in Salt Lake City.

ISU also looks forward to a potential payback win over the Cowgirls, which would put them in a sixth-place tie in the conference standings.

The No. 4 Iowa State men’s basketball team found out at around 12:30 p.m. central time that it would have been one of the top four seeds in the NCAA Tournament if the event started that day. A few hours later, No. 2 Arizona beat No. 5 Houston on the road, and a few hours after that, the Cyclones lost, 79-69, at No. 19 BYU.

The Cyclones (21-7, 9-7 Big 12) led by 13 points with 7:35 remaining, but the Horned Frogs (23-4, 13-3) immediately responded with a 9-2 run to pull within four, and then struck for 14 straight points late in the game to fully secure the win.

And then, fittingly, there were two still standing in 2A: Alburnett’s top-seeded Eaghan Fleshman and Solon’s second-seeded Lucas Feuerbach — until Fleshman stuck a takedown in overtime to mine gold, 4-1, Saturday night at the Iowa High School Athletic Association state wrestling meet at the Casey’s Center.

Saturday night at the Casey’s Center, all of that work paid, Parmater outlasted Solon’s second-seeded Anderson Osgood, 4-0, flexing and smiling as the Vikings’ fans showered his with cheers and applause.

Mehlert struck for three near-fall points in the first tiebreaker to beat North Polk’s Charlie Boelman, 7-4, and grasp gold at the Iowa High School Athletic Association state wrestling meet Saturday just as his dad did 26 years ago.

Blake Williams has been blessed with all three as a competitor at Decorah and Wartburg, and a 400-plus win head coaching career at Solon and Cedar Rapids Prairie.

These wounds matter. These nicks, cuts and abrasions are fully earned. And all Mount Vernon’s top-ranked and unbeaten 157-pound senior needed to do to reveal their deeper meaning was calmly raise his forefinger to indicate there’s merely one more match to win to finally join two of his older brothers as a state champion.

The 6-11, 240-pound freshman forward from Gotha, Germany has packed 15 pounds onto his expansive frame since joining Iowa State’s program last summer — and it’s anything but dead weight.

Fortune favors the bold, after all, and by starting off his medal-worthy run at the Iowa High School Athletic Association Class 2A state wrestling tournament with three consecutive pins, the 11th-seeded McGonegle’s earned the right to exude the utmost confidence.v

The 132-pound senior’s intense. He’s relentless. He could join an elite club by becoming a four-time medalist this week at the Iowa High School Athletic Association Class 2A state wrestling meet, but after his first match at Casey’s Center, he often feels his tank’s not fully topped off — not yet, anyway.

Lansing, a senior 190-pounder, is the Orioles’ first-ever state qualifier, and on Thursday, he pinned his first foe, nearly pinned his second before getting pinned himself, and won by injury default in his consolation semifinal at Casey’s Center.

So Brown, who scored six points, grabbed seven rebounds, and dished out six assists in just under her 20-minute allotment, took a deep breath and continued.

ISU is looking to enhance both its Big 12 Tournament seeding, as well as a solid, but vulnerable NCAA Tournament resume. The Cyclones are currently pegged as a No. 9 seed by ESPN women’s basketball bracketologist Charlie Creme, so their likely on the right side of the bubble, but not by much — and they’re not alone.