Linebacker Keian Kaiser Commits

We’ve done well with K linebackers. He doubles that.

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Playing for metrics or end of year health and success

If there is 1 thing I'd like change in the mentality of our current program it would be getting away from bowing to the metrics of winning big in trash early season games. Cyclone talking heads always bring up the 17-2 start we had and high ratings in kenpom, but 90% of those teams were basically traffic cones we beat by 30.
In my opinion, I'd rather win by 12-20 in those non-con games and play 10-12 guys deep throughout instead of our 7-8 guys playing 35min to run up the score.
Rest our guys early, play the whole roster, mix young/new guys in at all points of the game, get game experience and hopefully end the season without weardown/overuse injuries.

Let Him Cook: Looking back on the 2024-25 Iowa State Cyclones

Dylan Coon and Nigel Dyson discuss Iowa State’s early exit from the NCAA Tournament before looking back on the season as a whole. Diving into the first weekend, what’s next for the Cyclones, and more.


Williams & Blum: The Monday after

Chris Williams & Brent Blum analyze the conclusion of the 2024-25 basketball season at Iowa State. Adding everything together to decide what went wrong for the Cyclones, & what will be done over the next month for the 2025-26 roster. The portal is open and there is a lot to talk about. Presented as always by Mechdyne.


Milan Momcilovic helps form strong core of returners for ISU next season

Back to the Beginning - set list


This is the end.
July 5th, 2025
Villa Park, Aston, Birmingham, England.

As I understand it, Ozzy is going to do short solo set before Black Sabbath finishes the night.

Two questions...

How many songs do they play (medleys don't count)?
What are they?

Keeping in mind Ozzy's warmup and the return of an elderly Bill Ward on drums...

And if you're a fan of Aston Villa...UP THE VILLA!

Twister Sister Summary - Thirty Years and What It Means

We are nearing the end of a coaching era. Here's a look at the impact the hiring of Bill Fennelly has had on Iowa State.

Iowa everywhere today and 2 guys

I honestly didn’t want to listen to Iowa everywhere today because I didn’t want to hear Hassels crap about ISU disappointing this year. It wasn’t bad but to be brutally honest the discussion on Bryce miller had me tearing up listening to it (and I didn’t even know the guy). I appreciate the honesty, the emotion and it was said on the pod but it really puts things into perspective as to what’s important in life. One of the better pods I’ve listened to in a long time.

Thank you Chris!

Senior Appreciation Thread

First of all. Shout out to the Seniors this year.

Chatfield - brought alot more to the team than I would have expected to start the season.
Gilbert - extremely dynamic player that should be a tryout/shot at the next level, but injuries plagued him and a special all-around season
Jones - Fantastic season, 6th man of the year. Should get a tryout/shot at the next level.

Is Jones really gone? It sounds like they are proceeding with requesting another year. TJ said they are proceeding as though he isnt getting it,
but the juco year actually should technically give him another year next year. If the NCAA follows the new policy then he SHOULD be back in 2025-2026.

Login to view embedded media - talking about potential for playing next year.

Regardless, they had a really special class that ran into a buzzsaw with injuries, but certainly gave fans a really fun and special year to watch.

Go Clones!
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Monday Musings: 'This is March' turns into 'That's March.'

: "This is March" turns into "That's March."

-Cyclones downed in 2nd round
-Chalk city in the Sweet 16
-McCollum to Iowa
and more here from @cfchangs9

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WBB: How would you rate the 24-25 season?

How would you rate the 24-25 season

  • A

    Votes: 1 0.8%
  • B

    Votes: 27 22.5%
  • C

    Votes: 55 45.8%
  • D

    Votes: 34 28.3%
  • F

    Votes: 3 2.5%

EDIT: THIS IS FOR THE WBB TEAM. Probably should have not posted this after last night's MBB loss.

Now that we've had some time to cool off from the end of the season. How would you rate it? I left off +/- but feel free to comment with those included.

Preconference: C-

Pretty disappointing, but not disastrous.

I'll admit I was one who was foolish and bought the preseason hype. Audi, Addy, and Emily back with transfers who should shore up our 3 pt shooting. Me Gusta.

Losing to UNI and Iowa hurt. We had decent leads in each of those games and blew it. Losing to SCAR and UCONN was expected, but man they blew any idea that this team should be ranked out of the water.

The wins against Drake and MTSU saved this section of the season from being a D or F.

Conference: B-

Underwhelmed, but performed when expected.

We won every game we should have and lost every game we should have. Barring one exception KSU. The inability to "punch up" made our getting into the tournament a big question mark until the KSU win. One more loss and we probably would have missed the tournament.

Gave this a B- as opposed to a B because the team regressed from winning against the odds and some of the losses were not great showings.

Postseason: B

Satisfied, performed to my expectations.

As a repeat to the last section, we won every game we should have and lost every game we should have. The ladies had good/great performances against ASU and Princeton and made the games against Baylor and Michigan toss ups.

Wished for more but got what I expected.

Overall Season rating: B-

I can't help that the preseason expectations have colored my perception on this entire season and is the reason I have to give it a B-. Picked 2nd in the XII to fall to 7th, and from top 10 to PIG was disappointing. A 23-12 season is a pretty good record and is our 3rd (or 4th depending on if you want to count by win% or total wins) best season in the last 10 years.

Iowa State Transfer Tracker 2025

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%

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

Iowa State's NCAA Tournament run cut short by red-hot Ole Miss in the second round

CFTV: Iowa State reflects on loss to Ole Miss

Milan Momcilovic, Curtis Jones, and Joshua Jefferson reflect on Iowa State’s loss to Ole Miss before looking ahead to what’s next.


Disappointing season

I'm not going to hear that we have to stay positive. We can say it this was a disappointing season. Pre season top 5 team and to lose the way we did in the round of 32 in a non-competitive game.

I not going to go as far as to start blaming the coach, players, or fans. Sometimes you just don't meet expectations and this year we most certainly did not.

PSA: Iowa State’s Ceiling In Any Sport

My annual reminder for those in pain and pointing fingers.

Our coaches don’t swing between COTY candidates to sucking on a game by game basis in MBB and FB. They are great, and way too much is put on Xs and Os daily.

People really need to come to terms with the fact that we can compete with anybody and get a great starting five every year, but with NIL, anything beyond starters will always be a big drop off. Especially with regards to scorers or skill position that are going for the price of 50% of our entire athletic NIL.

That means you have little to no margin for injuries, slumps, etc. You will have years where it’s enough and goes well (ie FB 20) and others when not with the same roster and schedule (ie FB 21).

That is the same for football.

It has been this way forever, but amplified by magnitudes with NIL. We can win championships, but there is never room for error or injury, or even a dud star.

*** Official Ole Miss vs #15 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

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Ole Miss (23-11, 10-8 SEC)
#15 IOWA STATE (25-9, 13-7 BIG 12)
SUNDAY, MARCH 23RD 7 P.M. CST
Fiserv Forum / Milwaukee, WI


TV: truTV
Talent: : Play-by-Play: Kevin Harlan Analyst: Dan Bonner Analyst: Stan Van Gundy
Reporter: Lauren Shehadi

Radio: Cyclone Radio Network (Varsity Network)
CRN Talent: John Walters (pxp); Eric Heft (analyst)

***2025 UFL Season Thread***

The 2025 UFL season kicks off Friday, March 28 with St. Louis at Houston, 7 p.m. CT on FOX.

FOX will have a Friday night game each week. Other regular-season games will be split among FS1, ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2.

Active rosters are limited to 50 players. Here are the Cyclones on active rosters to start the season:

TEAMPLAYER#POS
BirminghamLa'Michael Pettway80TE
St. LouisMike Rose27LB
St. LouisWillie Harvey51LB
St. LouisChase Allen87TE
St. LouisHakeem Butler88WR

Also, Anthony Becht (HC) and Seneca Wallace (QB) are on the St. Louis staff and Marc Lillibridge is the GM for San Antonio.

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