Rob Gray

Keshon Gilbert’s career-high-tying 25 point-effort fueled Iowa State’s most lopsided win over Iowa in series history — a 90-65 rout that played out before a sold-out and amped-up Hilton Coliseum crowd.

Everything unraveled for the young Iowa State women’s basketball team after taking a late 55-54 lead as the Iowa Hawkeyes beat the Cyclones for the seventh time in the past eight meetings, 67-58, before a sellout crowd of 14,267.

Outside of noise, Thursday’s Cy-Hawk men’s basketball matchup between Iowa and Iowa State appears typical on paper.

Bill Fennelly prepares his freshmen-fueled Iowa State Cyclones (4-3) for Wednesday’s 6 p.m. Cy-Hawk matchup with the No. 4-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes (8-1) in what’s become an annual women’s basketball tradition since his second season in Ames.

Just like in 2017, Iowa State will play Memphis in its home stadium

Tamin Lipsey became the first ISU player since Tyrese Haliburton to record a triple-double for the Cyclones in a 99-80 rout of DePaul on Friday.

Curtis Jones knows his shot will come around. Until it does, the Iowa State transfer guard will continue to focus on defense, ball security and assisting his teammates at a high clip.

Seventh-seeded Iowa State will face unseeded, but talented Hawai’i in Thursday’s 7 p.m. first-round NCAA volleyball tournament matchup in Eugene, Ore.

Sophomore running back enter transfer portal along with 3 others

Cyclones feel good about future after close loss to rival Iowa.

Abu Sama rushed for 276 yards as the Cyclones finished the regular season at 7-5, their sixth winning season in the past seven years.

Cody Chittum — who greyshirted with Iowa last season before transferring to Kevin Dresser’s program at Iowa State — adopted a no-nonsense approach to his nascent college wrestling career.

He’s no Brock Purdy, of course, but he Iowa State quarterback Rocco Becht developing into an elite version of Rocco Becht, which bodes well for the Cyclones as they try to topple Kansas State on Saturday.

The Cyclones are heavier underdogs than they’ve been against any team all season and a win over the Wildcats would certainly improve their standing in the Big 12’s bowl pecking order. Here are three keys for Iowa State against Kansas State.

Iowa State standout sophomore safety Jeremiah Cooper took sitting out two football games this season because of injury as an opportunity to improve, teach and return to the field better than before.