Timing is everything but unfortunately for me, my timing is usually anything but fortuitous. Just a week ago I had thoughts of horseshoes, hand grenades, and – well – Lubbock. The 2012-13 Iowa State Cyclone basketball team was really good and they finished 11...
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Somehow, the end of the regular season is here. It is March, and that means the stakes are raised and the consequences have escalated. Yeah, this game isn’t a part of a single elimination tournament and while this team isn’t going to win the regular season ti...
A week ago when we talked about how quickly things can change, it was centered around the perception of Iowa State’s ability as a road team and the sudden window for opportunity to take the Big 12 crown after Kansas lost at Kansas State.This week, it’s an entire...
The Baylor Bears are next on the docket for the Cyclones and they’re bringing their 19th ranking and 20-7 overall record (8-6) along with them. For Iowa State, this will be the 10th ranked opponent it has faced this season and the fifth that the Cyclones have pl...
Welcome to another edition of my basketball blabberings where I incoherently stumble through a variety of small topics that have been bouncing around in my head for the past few days. None of these things are really worthy of a few hundred words on their own, so...
The Texas Longhorns have been the disappointment of the Big 12 this season. Loaded with elite talent and expectations to match, they have stumbled to a 6-7 record in the Big 12 after an 11-2 start where many games were played without Isaiah Taylor.The Cyclones o...
We’re hitting the closing stretch of the regular season (crazy!) and Iowa State still almost has but a glimmer of hope to earn a share of a conference title. The Cyclones are a game behind Kansas in the loss column and four of their last six games are on the ro...
We’re now a good chunk of the way into the conference season and tendencies are pretty well pronounced for most teams. But questions start to arise in a lot of areas in terms of the differences in how teams play at home and on the road.I try to keep an eye on this every year ...
The mostly reeling Mountaineers from West Virginia are blazing their trail to Ames and they’re bringing their overall record of 19-5 and league record of 7-4 with them. The first meeting in Morgantown was almost five weeks ago but I’m not sure if it seems li...
