Rob Gray

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.

Iowa State’s women’s basketball team seeks to find contributions from fresh places to make up for Stephanie Soares’ 15 points and 10 rebounds per game. The 6-foot-6 graduate transfer is out for the season because of a torn ACL.

Eastern Kentucky transfer Tre King sat out for 592 days but now “can’t ask for anything more” as he contributed for No. 14 Iowa State.

No. 4 Iowa State beat No. 3 Arizona State 19-15 as the Cyclones’ stock keeps rising.

Big-time Big 12 stakes are involved Sunday. The No. 11 Iowa State Cyclones will try to keep up with the fast-paced No. 17 Oklahoma Sooners, who are tied for fifth nationally in scoring offense at 87.0 points per game.

Minnesota transfer Gabe Kalscheur, emerged as a top priority for T.J. Otzelberger at Iowa State for one overarching reason: His commitment to constant improvement, especially on the defensive end of the floor.

Stephanie Soares grabbed 20 boards in 25 minutes as the No. 11-ranked Iowa State women’s basketball team cruised past West Virginia, 70-50. She also scored 13 points and blocked three shots.

JT Rock, a 7-foot center from Sioux Falls, S.D., announced Wednesday on social media that he had committed to Iowa State.

Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly considers the Cyclones’ 4-for-26 3-point shooting performance in Saturday’s 81-58 win at Texas Tech an anomaly — and for good reason.

Tamin Lipsey’s ability to defend at a high level, finish at the rim and crisply facilitate at such a young age has been a key component of early-season success for the Iowa State men’s basketball team

The Iowa State men’s basketball team notched a dominant 77-62 Big 12-opening win over No. 12 Baylor before a sellout Hilton Coliseum crowd of 14,267.

The 15th-ranked Iowa State women’s basketball team will open the Big 12 portion of its schedule Saturday against Texas Tech after a 13-day layoff that started with the blizzard-based cancellation of the annual game against Drake.

Winter break — in terms of basketball, at least — is over for Iowa State. Now it’s time to begin an 18-game round-robin grind that begins with another ranked foe, Baylor, before a sellout crowd at Hilton Coliseum.

Iowa State men’s basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger said Thursday that 6-foot-8 senior forward Aljaz Kunc will be out for up to a month because of a broken finger sustained in a recent practice.