Rob Gray

No. 12 Iowa State couldn’t overcome frigid 3-point shooting Saturday against Baylor, falling 76-70 before a crowd of 11,788 at Hilton Coliseum.

No. 13 Cyclones beat No. 8 Jayhawks, 68-53, snapping a 7-game losing streak in the series

Iowa State star Ashley Joens must ensure getting into foul trouble doesn’t become a trend as the No. 12 Cyclones prepare to face Baylor on Saturday.

Consider the 13th-ranked Iowa State men’s basketball team to potentially be near full strength when they jostle with No. 8 Kansas on Saturday in a sure-to-be packed and noisy Hilton Coliseum.

When Iowa State football coach Matt Campbell chose to make a change at offensive coordinator after the 2022 season, former running game coordinator and receivers coach Nate Scheelhasse emerged as the prime candidate to fill that void.

Denae Fritz, a former Miss Basketball in Tennessee, missed most of last season with a foot injury. Now she’s asked to be one of Iowa State’s most stringent defenders — and trusted to develop into one of the Cyclones’ more productive scorers, as well.

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 …