Rob Gray

Tamin Lipsey scored 16 points on 5-for-7 shooting in the Iowa State men’s basketball team’s 83-44 season-opening rout of Mississippi Valley State on Monday. ISU snared 16 steals from the Delta Devils, who won one game last season and are ranked last in the country by KenPom

Iowa State star Audi Crooks scored within 10 seconds. Her sharp-shooting Cyclone teammates drained their first four 3-point attempts. And so it went in No. 8 ISU’s women’s basketball season opener — a 96-56 drubbing of Chicago State.

Iowa State is a three-point favorite against the Kansas, and its fans could make Saturday’s game at Arrowhead Stadium almost feel like a home game. Expect another tense game, regardless — and here are five Kansas players to know as the countdown to kickoff continues.

Iowa State guard Curtis Jones’ 3-point shots refused to fall early last season after he transferred in from Buffalo. So he simply kept working, knowing he’d shine when it mattered most.

In Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell’s football program, there’s no brooding, grousing, nor gnashing of teeth. The Cyclones grind on — even after absorbing the effects of Saturday’s 23-22 loss to Texas Tech, which knocked them from the ranks off the unbeaten.

Iowa State tempted fate throughout Big 12 play with sluggish starts. That troubling tendency finally caught up with the No. 11 Cyclones on Saturday — as Texas Tech — a two-touchdown underdog — danced out of a sold-out Jack Trice Stadium with a 23-22 win.

The term “competitive endurance” has come to frame each of Matt Campbell’s nine seasons leading the Iowa State football program. Some of his teams have possessed that elusive quality. Some haven’t. But the 2024 Cyclones seem to fully embody it.

Iowa State will try to get to 8-0 for the first time in program history Saturday against Texas Tech. Here are three keys for the Cyclones, plus a score prediction.

Rylan Barnes — a walk-on and former West Hancock standout — is poised to make his third consecutive start when No. 11 Iowa State takes on Texas Tech at a fully-packed Jack Trice Stadium.

Don’t believe the stats. That’s Iowa State offensive coordinator Taylor Mouser’s message to his unit as the No. 11 Cyclones prepare to face Texas Tech’s bottom-of-the-FBS-barrel pass defense.

Banged-up Texas Tech could field a highly regarded but first-time starting quarterback in Saturday’s game at Iowa State, so expect plenty of surprises — and here are five red-and-black-clad players to know before kickoff:

“The past is the past.” That’s the motto Iowa State’s standout senior heavyweight Yonger Bastida adopted for his final season — and for good reason.

Cyclones dropped to 10th in AP poll and head into bye week banged up, but they are 7-0 for the first time in 86 years

No. 9 Iowa State is still undefeated — and 7-0 for the first time since 1938 following a gobsmacking 38-35 triumph Saturday night over UCF before 61,500 fans at Jack Trice Stadium.

Kyle Kempt ignited a program-changing upset as Iowa State’s quarterback against Oklahoma in 2017. He’s been a part of the program ever since, serving as a graduate assistant and now in a quality control capacity for the Cyclones’ potent passing game.