Rob Gray

No. 4 Iowa State wins six of 10 bouts for first win over Oklahoma State at home since 2009

Ashley Joens went on a personal 8-0 run in the second quarter and helped first-place Iowa State erase an early 10-point deficit to beat Oklahoma, 86-78.

It’s time for the women’s basketball rematch between Iowa State and Oklahoma. The way the Cyclones played in the first meeting Stephanie Soares went down with a season-ending ACL injury proved to be encouraging despite the loss.

Half of the Iowa State men’s basketball team’s six Big 12 wins have come by four or points or less, so one could expect chronic stress to ripple through the lineup. That would be an erroneous assumption, at least for true freshman point guard Tamin Lipsey.

Iowa State wrestler Marcus Coleman attained All-America honors for the first time last season. He’s a four-time NCAA qualifier and currently ranked fourth nationally at 184 pounds. And both he and Coach Kevin Dresser believe the best is yet to come as his final collegiate season winds toward March.

Jaren Holmes scored 18 of his Iowa State career high-tying 23 points in the second half of an 80-76 win over No. 5 Kansas State that catapulted the 12th-ranked Cyclones into a tie atop the Big 12 standings.

Emily Ryan is the most durable player for the No. 18-ranked Iowa State women’s basketball team. She ranks first in the Big 12 in minutes played per game, and she’ll almost certainly be on the floor every second she’s needed in Wednesday’s 6:30 p.m. matchup with TCU.

There’s never an easy night for No. 12 Cyclone men, or any other team in the league. Cyclones host No. 5 Kansas State on Tuesday

AMES — It’s not often that Ashley Joens is stuck in a shooting slump. It’s rarer still that those struggles …

Four different Iowa State men’s basketball players have led the team in scoring multiple times — and that wide-ranging offensive output helps explain how the 12th-ranked Cyclones have become more dangerous on both ends of the floor.

Bill Fennelly will be back coaching the Iowa State women’s basketball team in Saturday’s 5 p.m. matchup with Kansas. He missed Wednesday’s 69-64 win over Oklahoma State while mourning the loss of his mother, Carol, who passed away last Sunday. She was 85.

Third-ranked Iowa State is coming off a signature dual win over then-No. 3 Arizona State, but all 141-pound Cyclone freshman Casey Swiderski can think about is his “dumb mistake.”

Caleb Grill’s been aptly labeled a sharpshooter. But Grill’s value to the No. 14-ranked Iowa State men’s basketball team goes far beyond a flick of the wrist that frequently ends with a swish.

Denae Fritz notched career highs in points (14) and blocked shots (3) in the 15th-ranked Iowa State women’s basketball team’s 67-56 win Wednesday over Kansas State at Hilton Coliseum.

Gabe Kalscheur scored 25 points to help the No. 14-ranked Iowa State men’s basketball team trample Texas Tech, 84-50, before a crowd of 13,464 at Hilton Coliseum.