Rob Gray

Iowa State men’s basketball notes: First-year head coach T.J. Otzelberger was an assistant coach for the 2016 Sweet 16 run to Chicago — and the irony of being back in a program-leading role, albeit with a very different team, isn’t lost on him.

At his third college basketball stop, Izaiah Brockington is a leader and standard-bearer for an Iowa State program that is in the midst of the biggest turnaround in school history.

Some Iowa State women’s basketball players are dealing with injuries, but the Cyclones are excited to head to Greensboro, N.C., for a Sweet 16 matchup with Creighton.

Iowa State has turned scoffs and slights into this turnaround season’s lifeblood. Now the Cyclones are one win from reaching the Elite Eight for just the second time in the modern era.

Running back Breece Hall showcased his pass-catching abilities in front of NFL scouts and even split out wide at times at Iowa State’s pro day.

Iowa State started the game with an 11-0 run and never trailed in beating Georgia 67-44, giving the Cyclones two Sweet 16 basketball teams.

Sleep can wait for the Iowa State women’s basketball team after a late-night NCAA Tournament first-round win over UT Arlington. The Cyclones move on to face Georgia on Sunday.

No. 3-seed Iowa State fully needed its stars to be at their best for 40 minutes in Friday night’s tense 78-71 first-round NCAA women’s basketball tournament win over 14-seed UT Arlington.

Iowa State narrowly missed advancing to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2010 a year ago, but now embarks on a new postseason quest beginning with Friday’s first-round tournament game against UT-Arlington at Hilton Coliseum.

Some Iowa State players aren’t completely new to March Madness, but they have traveled circuitous paths to return to it.

LSU fired head coach Will Wade just before the NCAA Tournament. Iowa State’s Izaiah Brockington has personal experience with tumultuous times within a program.

8th-seeded Cyclone senior also has high expectations at tournament in Detroit this weekend

Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly has taken 20 Cyclones teams to the NCAA Tournament and he said it’s like Christmas every time.

Iowa State is a No. 3-seed in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament and will host UT-Arlington in the first round.

Iowa State men’s basketball is dancing for the first time in three years. The Cyclones, a No. 11 seed, will open tournament play Friday against sixth-seeded LSU in Milwaukee.