Rob Gray

The 6-foot-11 Buchanan’s wide-ranging abilities have been fully on display in practice, but outside of a soaring alley-top dunk in Monday’s 88-50 rout of FDU, the Hilton Coliseum crowd hasn’t seen much from him.

Iowa State is running the football better than it has since the 2021 season. Why isn’t that success on the ground producing more wins?

LB Will McLaughlin is done for the season after injury on Saturday as Cyclones head to TCU

Iowa State’s Milan Momcilovic erupted for a career-high 29 points and seven 3-pointers in a dominant 88-50 season-opening Iowa State win over Farleigh Dickinson.

Cyclones will try to snap 4-game losing skid in game with Horned Frogs

Cyclones take down Tommies 85-36 at Hilton Coliseum

Cyclones have lost 4 in a row and facing a team on a 2-game winning streak

Milan Momcilovic hopes to get his swager back for Cyclone men’s basketball team

Cylones hope to play a lot faster this season

The Cyclones (5-4, 2-4) collected three takeaways against the Sun Devils — one interception and two fumble recoveries — but still lost, 24-19, before a rain-sodden crowd of 60,899 at Jack Trice Stadium.

Several tense minutes passed. Both team’s players kneeled on the field. Brahmer was eventually carted off the field, then hospitalized, before being evaluated, treated and discharged.

Consequently, the luster has been removed from the matchup Saturday between the Cyclones (5-3, 2-3) and Sun Devils (5-3, 3-2). This was circled in the preseason as one of the top conference games of the year.

Not massive ones. Not full-scale overhauls. Just a handful of well-crafted tweaks designed to help cure what ails Iowa State’s now-struggling football team.

Lately, those issues inside the 20 have been caused by miscommunication and/or poor execution — and it helps explain how the once highly ranked Cyclones are currently on a three-game skid.

Iowa State’s Yonger Bastida and former Missouri wrestler Rocky Elam formerly bitter rivals at 197 pounds are Cyclone teammates standing shoulder to shoulder Tuesday at media day — and have swiftly morphed from being fierce foes to fast friends.