The other night I was awake into the wee hours of the morning and flipped on the cable box to discover the Keith Olbermann show on ESPN2. Olbermann was part of the ESPN SportsCenter crew that dominated my teenage years in the mid 90's. Back then, there was only on...
Immediately following Iowa State’s 99-70 victory over Auburn on Monday night, I asked head coach Fred Hoiberg the following question:“What does it say about your team when you score 99 points with Georges Niang and DeAndre Kane having relatively tame nights?...
AMES --- These days, the kids are calling it “beast mode.”Dustin Hogue was well beyond that during Iowa State’s 99-70 thrashing of Auburn in Monday evening’s Big 12-SEC Challenge. Hogue was in some sort of super-human, super-hero, super-anything that you can thi...
AMES --- In 1964, United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said, “I know it when I see it,” when attempting to define obscenity. In a peculiar way, that phrase can also be used when trying to recognize a top-25 basketball team in the month o...
The Iowa State men's basketball program has moved up four spots to No. 17 in the latest AP College Basketball Poll. Meanwhile, the Cyclones also made their debut in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll, where Iowa State is ranked 21st. CLICK HERE to view both polls in thei...
Fred Hoiberg’s 4-0 Iowa State men’s basketball team has a bit of a chore to take care of this evening when UMKC comes to town for a 7 o'clock tip. No, the Kangaroos aren’t exactly a formidable crew. First-year head coach Kareem Richardson’s group enter...
DeAndre Kane comments on his ejection vs. BYU. Fred Hoiberg discusses Melvin Ejim and what the win meant to his program. The Cyclones break down what it is like to have a target on their back. Details on all of these topics and more can be seen here in this CFTV production f...
All wins in November are not created equal. Sunday’s 77-70 triumph over No. 7 Michigan was a very good November win, but not great though (the Hilton factor).Great wins in November are hard to come by. For a high-major program like Iowa State, most November no...
A road trip to Provo, Utah on Nov. 20 is about as brutal of a non-conference tilt that a program can schedule - one that doesn’t include one of the blue bloods of college hoops, of course. That atmosphere (BYU’s Marriott Center holds over 20,000 fans). Th...
