Cyclones fall to #23

in the updated AP Poll. Seems like a harsh drop but I can’t really argue it when you get blown out at home to an unranked team.

Iowa State is on the edge of going from potential Big 12 champion favorites to unranked in a span of 1 week.

This is going to be a very crucial 2 weeks for Iowa State. Our next 3 games are against teams that we are 0-3 against with the 4th coming against a team that we also struggled with.

@ KSU
Baylor
@ TCU
@ Texas.

Coming off a tough home loss, I’ll be pretty happy with 2-2 in the next 4. If we manage to only get 1 win, we’ll find ourselves in a situation where we’ve only 1 out of our last 5 games.

We are way too talented to have a big losing streak so hopefully the guys bounce back quickly.

Weekend Upsets with WrestleStat - Week 15 2018-2018

The big dual of the weekend saw two upsets itself, in the first two weights of the match with Roman Bravo-Young starting things out at 133 and defeating #7 Luke Pletcher in TB-2.

At the very next weight, #4 Nick Lee beat #2 Joey McKenna 7-6, which is the exact same score from their meeting last season.

The major upset over the weekend, though in my opinion, was Daniel Lewis pinning returning National Champion Zahid Valencia.

Here's our full list of upsets from the weekend:

141 - #4 Nick Lee (Penn State) beat #2 Joseph McKenna (Ohio State) by DEC 7 - 6 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/49276/lee-nick/profile
174 - #3 Daniel Lewis (Missouri) beat #2 Zahid Valencia (Arizona State) by FALL 4:15 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/20062/lewis-daniel/profile
197 - #11 Benjamin Honis (Cornell) beat #4 Patrick Brucki (Princeton) by DEC 7 - 6 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/43656/honis-benjamin/profile
165 - #20 Demetrius Romero (Utah Valley) beat #5 Bryce Steiert (Northern Iowa) by DEC 8 - 4 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/39948/romero-demetrius/profile
184 - #11 Nino Bonaccorsi (Pittsburgh) beat #6 Nick Reenan (North Carolina State) by MD 8 - 0 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/49285/bonaccorsi-nino/profile
141 - #10 Mike Carr (Illinois) beat #6 Tristan Moran (Wisconsin) by DEC 2 - 1 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/44645/carr-mike/profile
141 - #21 AC Headlee (North Carolina) beat #7 Mitch Moore (Virginia Tech) by SV-1 4 - 2 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/39627/headlee-ac/profile
133 - #9 Roman Bravo-Young (Penn State) beat #7 Luke Pletcher (Ohio State) by TB-2 2 - 1 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/49665/bravo-young-roman/profile
174 - #29 Kimball Bastian (Utah Valley) beat #8 Taylor Lujan (Northern Iowa) by DEC 6 - 5 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/40322/bastian-kimball/profile
285 - #27 Conan Jennings (Northwestern) beat #8 Mason Parris (Michigan) by DEC 7 - 5 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/20222/jennings-conan/profile
197 - #22 Christian Brunner (Purdue) beat #9 Nathan Traxler (Stanford) by DEC 4 - 3 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/44744/brunner-christian/profile
197 - #41 Brandon Whitman (North Carolina) beat #12 Tom Sleigh (Virginia Tech) by DEC 7 - 4 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/50602/whitman-brandon/profile
157 - #35 Dan Reed (Columbia) beat #14 Anthony Artalona (Pennsylvania) by DEC 3 - 2 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/19818/reed-dan/profile
125 - #88 Audey Ashkar (Binghamton) beat #17 Dylan Ryder (Hofstra) by FALL 2:48 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/44989/ashkar-audey/profile
174 - #65 Gregg Harvey (Pittsburgh) beat #17 Daniel Bullard (North Carolina State) by DEC 6 - 4 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/45148/harvey-gregg/profile
285 - #25 Cory Gillilland-Daniel (North Carolina) beat #18 Billy Miller (Virginia Tech) by DEC 3 - 2 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/22024/gillilland-daniel-cory/profile
157 - #33 Griffin Parriott (Purdue) beat #20 John Van Brill (Rutgers) by DEC 3 - 2 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/44608/parriott-griffin/profile
197 - #32 Drew Phipps (Bucknell) beat #20 Rocco Caywood (Army) by DEC 7 - 3 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/45224/phipps-drew/profile

Scoring Droughts

This team heavily relies on shooting, which isn’t always going to work. We get in these scoring droughts, and we let our opponents get on huge runs.

In the Arizona game, we scored two points in a time span of six minutes and eleven seconds.
In the Iowa game, we didn’t score a point in a time span of four minutes and forty-seven seconds.
In the Baylor game, we didn’t score a point in two minutes and fifty-seven seconds.
In the KSU game, we scored two points in the last five minutes.
In the KU game, we didn’t score a point in a time span of five minutes and fifteen seconds.
In the TCU game, we scored four points in a time span of eight minutes and thirty-four seconds.

All of our losses can be traced back to scoring droughts. We just need to move the ball around so we can get better shot opportunities.

Now On To Kansas State

Today's game I don't want to talk about just move on from it...

Kansas State is going to be a tough matchup on Saturday, the boys better be ready or else it's going to be a long game.

Wade, Stokes, and Brown are there all by far best athletes on there team. Have to guard them tight. Kansas State has 1 loss at home this season (Texas)

My Prediction:
Iowa State 74
Kansas State 81

Hope I'm wrong

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