Is this going to be on Flo or something? Some OU app? ISU website just says radio, but that seems hard to believe in this day and age.

A monster weekend for college football. Texas-OSU had a massive 16 million viewers.

Slightly surprised but shows the power of Fox, ISU-South Dakota was the third most watched college football game last Saturday with over 3 million viewers. ISU-K-State was only 4 million in Week 0.

So excited to see all these new places opening over the next year.

Big Grove is opening Wednesday.
Backpocket should be opening this fall in Johnston. I really hope they continue to improve. They are one of the few breweries that have actually improved over time.
Singlespeed should be open next Spring (I think)
Toppling-TBD

While vacationing, I almost always try to check out the local tap rooms and Des Moines is killing it for it's size. Better than similar sized places like Omaha, Wichita, Madison, etc. Even beats some bigger cities like Nashville, OKC, etc. Hell IMO Austin was behind Des Moines.

Post-Dual recap below:

Sunday’s result was expected. Where Iowa State delivered it was the point.

So, I was at the Ed Winger Invitational yesterday in Urbandale to watch some of the best wrestling our state has to offer at the high school level.

A close friend of mine grew up with Maximus Dhabolt’s dad (who my friend is still close to) so my friend and I have taken an interest in Max’s wrestling and have traveled a lot to watch him wrestle. Unfortunately, Max has been injured but he made his return yesterday and lost in the finals to a tough kid that is committed to Northwestern (Jaxon Miller).

Anyway, we are sitting there waiting for the finals and up walks Coach Dresser. He sits right next to us and we introduce ourselves and get to talking to him about Max and the season and just wrestling in general. Really cool to chat with him! Then the 144 final starts and it is Jaimon Mogard from Ames. Coach Dresser is watching the match and goes “woah, who is that kid?! He is super high level, that’s not normal stuff”. We tell him who he is and that he is a freshman and he is just raving about this kid. Suffice to say, I believe Mogard had firmly planted himself on Coach’s radar!

I joked with Coach that we’d remember this moment (the moment Coach found him) when Jaimon was winning a National Title as a Cyclone.

Just a really cool day for me as a wrestling fan as I also got to chat with former Cyclone, 4 time state champion and legendary coach Dan Knight. He was a pleasure to chat with also and so was his son (committed to wrestle at Illinois) and other wrestlers.

Chris Williams & Brent Blum go in-depth on a massive bounce-back week for both Iowa State basketball programs. Now, the focus turns to a daunting month of February schedule-wise and seeding for the NCAA Tournament. Plus, Chris sat down and interviewed Jimmy Rogers last week. The guys give their reactions to that and more, all courtesy of Mechdyne.

Enjoy!

This looks like it could be a pretty good watch:

Login to view embedded media

Iowa State (15-5, 3-5 Big 12) vs. Arizona (10-8, 1-6 Big 12)

Hilton Coliseum – Ames, Iowa

Saturday, January 24, 2026 – 3:00 p.m. CT

WATCH: FS1 (PxP: Krista Blunk, Analyst: Madison Hock)

LISTEN: Cyclone Radio Network (PxP: Noah Wolf, Analyst: Jamie Steyer Johnson)

LIVE STATS

Random question - are any of the upcoming games a white out? Gold out? Etc

I know there are several of us that post article links that have a paywall…such as the DSM Register. Some folk are nice enough to follow up with a link to the archives. I found this nice little shortcut for iOS users (sorry google folk) that works great to gain access to the archived versions.

This is the shortcut link:

Lea Nelson and Chelsea Poppens react to Iowa State’s win over Arizona, courtesy of Karl Auto Group.

Enjoy!

This one ended up being a foul-fest and folks got to see some four on five basketball by the end...

Chris Williams and Jake Brend react to No. 9 Iowa State’s win over Oklahoma State courtesy of Karl Auto Group.

Enjoy!

Take our quiz and see if you remember some of the past names in the Iowa State Men's basketball coaching carousel over the years. Click here.

Predictions?

Also, don't forget to wear white!!

Back again! This time with a hopefully working laptop for a bit. I'll get this more formatted and updated later on but for now I want to at least get the framework out there


Current Roster Status:

Leaving:
Keshon Gilbert - Out of Eligibility
Curtis Jones - Out of Eligibility
Branton Chatfield - Out of Eligibility
Damarian Watson - Transfer
Kayden Fish - Transfer(Ball State)
JT Rock - Transfer
Nojus - Transfer




Incoming Recruits:

Jamarion Bateman - 6'3 SG, Milwaukee, Wisconsin


Killyan Toure - 6'3 SG, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire

Xzavion Mitchell - 6'6 SF, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Dominykas Pleta - 6'9 PF, Germany




Incoming Transfers

Eric Mulder - 6'8 F, IPFW
8.4 PPG, 6.7 RPG, 76% FG%


Mason Williams - 6'5, G, Eastern Washington
13.9 PPG, 3.2 RPG, 2.4 APG

Blake Buchanan - 6'11, C, Virginia
5.4 PPG, 5.3 RPG, 1.1 BPG





Known Transfer Interest:

Jamichael Stillwell - 6'8 F, Milwaukee, Contacted
13 PPG, 10.7 RPG, 1.4 APG


Conor Enright - 6'2, G, DePaul, Contacted
7.5 PPG, 3.3 RPG, 6.2 APG, 39% FG%

Conor Enright - DePaul Blue Demons Guard - ESPN

View the profile of DePaul Blue Demons Guard Conor Enright on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.

www.espn.com

Oscar Cluff - 6'11, C, South Dakota State, Contacted
17.6 PPG, 12.3 RPG, 2.8 APG, 0.8 BPG

Javontae Campbell - 6'2, G, Bowling Green, Contacted
14.9 PPG, 4.1 RPG, 3.1 APG, 49.5 FG%

Sam Lewis - 6'6, G, Toledo, Contacted
16.2 PPG, 4.7 RPG, 1.2 APG, 44% 3PT%

Kennard Davis Jr - 6'5, G, Southern Illinois, Contacted
16.3 PPG, 4.9 RPG, 2.6 APG, 37% 3PT

Dominick Wilson - 6'5, G, Utah Valley, Visiting
14.4 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 1.7 APG


Ezra Asuar - 6'8, F, Utah, Contacted
12.5 PPG, 5 RPG, 0.9 APG


Rumored names - Adding this section in this year since twitter is always wild with possible guys we're interested in or whispers about someone being on campus or whatnot. Not going to do a big thing for them here, think of it as a ones to watch inside the ones to watch list

Elijah Moore, Syracuse
Jaylin Sellers, UCF

And no Iowa.

Plan accordingly.

Login to view embedded media

Hey everyone!

Below is a link to tonight's press conference video with Dresser, E. Frost and Yonger Bastida.


Enjoy!

Plus, I did clip when Dresser answered what it means to him to win his 100th dual as HC of Iowa State:

Login to view embedded media
Alsooooo, here's match by match if you'd like:

125: No. 13 Stevo Poulin (ISU) WBF Bryson Valdez (UNCO), 1:57
133: No. 3 Evan Frost (ISU) dec. No. 9 Dom Serrano (UNCO), 7-1
141: No. 4 Anthony Echemendia (ISU) TF Ramon Salazar (UNCO), 21-6 (3:11)
149: No. 6 Jacob Frost (ISU) TF KJ Evans (UNCO), 19-4 (5:17)
157: No. 8 Vinny Zerban (ISU) TF Daishun Powe (UNCO), 18-3 (7:00)
165: No. 17 Connor Euton (ISU) maj. dec. Kilian Schultz (UNCO), 19-7
174: Aiden Riggins (ISU) dec. Murphy Menke (UNCO), 3-1
184: No. 12 Isaac Dean (ISU) dec. Mahonri Rushton (UNCO), 8-2
197: CJ Carter (ISU) dec. Tyler Perry (UNCO), 4-1
285: No. 1 Yonger Bastida (ISU) TF Enzo Cappabianca (UNCO), 21-6 (2:15)

The football scholarship chart has not been updated since 2022; high value Mods! Good work!