Former Iowa City High standout Ashley Joens led Iowa State to a Big 12 tournament title in a 61-51 win over Texas.
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Former Iowa City High standout Ashley Joens led Iowa State to a Big 12 tournament title in a 61-51 win over Texas.
Ashley Joens became the 14th player in NCAA women’s basketball history to score 3,000 points in Iowa State’s 82-72 Big 12 tournament semifinal win over No. 14 Oklahoma.
Prognosticators vary, but the general consensus has the Iowa State men’s basketball team anywhere from a No. 5 seed to a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament going into Selection Sunday.
Ashley Joens hit seven 3-pointers and finished with 30 points to spark Iowa State to a 74-63 win over Baylor in a Big 12 Conference Tournament quarterfinal game on Friday night.
The Iowa State Cyclones erased an eight-point halftime deficit in Saturday’s Big 12 tournament semifinal against No. 3 Kansas, but couldn’t sustain that energy and fell, 71-58, at the T-Mobile Center.
In 18 games with the NBA G League’s Wisconsin Herd this season, former Cyclone Lindell Wigginton is averaging 18.8 points, 5.7 assists, 3.7 rebounds, and 1.0 steals per game.
The once-struggling Iowa State men’s basketball team has beaten Baylor in back-to-back games after dropping six of its previous seven. The Cyclones advanced to the Big 12 tournament semifinals with a 78-72 win Thursday.
Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly is convinced most of the league’s teams could potentially challenge for the Big 12 tournament title.
Gabe Kalscheur wasn’t surprised the revamped Iowa State men’s basketball team — which starts Big 12 tournament play at 11:30 a.m. Thursday against No. 10 Baylor — could come together and have success on a scale few viewed as possible.
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Ashley Joens recorded her 62nd career double-double to help the No. 23-ranked Iowa State women’s basketball team lambast Texas Tech, 76-52, before a Hilton Coliseum Senior Day crowd of 11,858.
Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger got everyone involved in the regular-season finale, and the Cyclones got a big boost going into the Big 12 tournament after the dismissal of one of their key players.
Adversity comes in a variety of forms — and the Iowa State men’s basketball team in the teeth of it as it prepares for Saturday’s regular-season finale at No. 7 Baylor.
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