Milwaukee Alumni Association gamewatch at McGillicuddy's at 5PM tonight. Wife and I went on Thursday and it was awesome. Going again tonight. Private upstairs bar just for area Clones.

1135 N Water St, Milwaukee

I am hearing some rumors of a possible football commit today. LB from Iowa so I am guessing Limbaugh?

I’m hearing Iowa State is getting one of the prospects I showcased in my Saturday visitors piece published yesterday.

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Just announced on Instagram, Xzavion Mitchell has committed to the Cyclones. He comes from the same Oshkosh (Wisc.) program that produced Tyrese Haliburton.

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Real Mitchell retweeted this interview of Matt Campbell and why he hasn’t left Iowa State.

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Excuse the mushiness, but I just wanted everyone to know how truly grateful I am to be part of the Cyclone family.

I grew up a KU fan, then moved to KC in 2008. Since then, I've still been a KU fan, but every year at the Big12 Tournament, I was always SO impressed with the Cyclone fans. I remember a decade ago thinking "damn, these folks love their team." In fact if you dig far enough back, I made a Facebook post a decade ago about ISU being my "2nd favorite team."

Well, now that I know better, ISU is BY FAR my favorite team, and it's YOU ALL that make it that way.

I've never met a more kind, friendly, loving, humble, loving, competitive, and LOYAL bunch of people. My only regret is not being a fan sooner.

On behalf of all Hawley's, thank you. It's an honor to be part of the family.

Cyclone for life. You got my word on that.

PS
I still love Bill Self, but damn they get some BS calls. 🤣

Iowa State Media Relations

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – David Carr punched his ticket to the 165-pound national finals Friday night inside the T-Mobile Center while two other Cyclones – Evan Frost and Casey Swiderski – secured their spots on the podium.

In a match for the ages, Carr bested O’Toole for the third time in a historic five-part rivalry. O’Toole controlled the mat in the opening period, but Carr struck first in the second with a smooth duck-under for a takedown. O’Toole answered back and look a late lead on a takedown with 53 seconds left in the match, but Carr hung tough and secured the winning takedown with 10 seconds remaining.

Carr is now a three-time finalist and prevented O’Toole from winning his third consecutive national title.

Iowa State has four All-Americans for the first time since 2009 – Anthony Echemendia, Frost, Carr and Swiderski. The Cyclones are in a tie for fourth place with 59.5 points, along with Arizona State. Penn State leads the way with 148.0, followed by Michigan (64.5) and Iowa (60.0).

Frost earned his spot on the podium with a gritty 2-1 victory over Minnesota’s Tyler Wells. After a scoreless first, the Cyclone got out quickly from underneath in the second period. In the third, Frost put on a tough ride, wracking up over 1:30 of riding time, and held off a furious rally from Wells to get on the podium.

At 149 pounds, Swiderski gutted out a 2-1 victory in tiebreakers against Ohio State’s No. 14 Dylan D`Emilio. Swiderski was in on a shot multiple times in regulation but couldn’t get past the Buckeye’s stingy defense. In tiebreakers, Swiderski earned a quick escape and held D`Emilio scoreless.

Swiderski would fall later in the session to West Virginia’s Ty Watters and will wrestle for seventh place Saturday morning.

Echemendia took top-seeded Jesse Mendez of Ohio State to the brink in the 141-pound semifinals but came up just short. Echemendia was close to a takedown as the clock hit zeros in the third but didn’t have enough time to finish as he fell, 6-4, to the Buckeye.

MJ Gaitan fell just short in his blood round bout against No. 3 Edmond Ruth, 8-6.

Up Next
Medal rounds will take place Saturday at 10 a.m. on ESPNU while finals begin at 6 p.m. on ESPN.

Match-by-Match Results
125: No. 24 Kysen Terukina - DNP
First Round: L-D, 9-4 vs. No. 9 Patrick McKee (MINN)
Consis. Rd. 1: W-D, 4-2 vs. No. 25 Ethan Berginc (ARMY)
Consis. Rd. 2: LBF (5:34) vs. No. 7 Jakob Camacho (NCST)

133: No. 8 Evan Frost
First Round: W-D, 8-5 vs. No. 25 Braden Basile (ARMY)
Second Round: W-D, 4-1 vs. No. 24 Julian Chlebove (ASU)
Quarterfinals: L-D, 2-1 TB-1 s. No. 1 Daton Fix (OKST)
R12: W-D, 2-1 vs. No. 20 Tyler Wells (MINN)
R8: vs

141: No. 5 Anthony Echemendia
First Round: W-TF, 20-4 (6:51) vs. No. 28 Greyson Clark (Purdue)
Second Round: W-D, 8-2 vs. No. 21 Josh Edmond (MIZ)
Quarterfinals: W-D, 5-3 vs. No. 4 Ryan Jack (NCST)
Semifinals: L-D, 6-4 vs. No. 1 Jesse Mendez (OHST)
R8: vs. No. 3 Real Woods (IOWA)

149: No. 8 Casey Swiderski
First Round: W-D, 2-1 vs. No. 25 Matthew Williams (ARMY)
Second Round: W-D, 8-5 TB-1 vs. No. 9 Ethan Fernandez (CORN)
Quarterfinals: L-MD, 14-4 vs. No. 1 Ridge Lovett (NEB)
R12: W-D, 2-1 TB-1 vs. No. 14 Dylan D`Emilio (OHST)
R8: L-MD, 10-2 vs. No. 5 Ty Watters (WVU)
Seventh-Place Match: vs. No. 11 Quinn Kinner (RID)

157: No. 14 Cody Chittum - DNP
First Round: L-MD, 17-6 vs. No. 19 Tommy Askey (APP)
Consis. Rd. 1: W-TF, 20-4 (5:00) vs. No. 30 Colton Washleski (RID)
Consis. Rd. 2: L-D, 14-3 vs. No. 13 Michael Blockhus (MINN)

165: No. 4 David Carr
First Round: W-TF, 18-2 (4:52) vs. No. 29 Evan Maag (GMU)
Second Round: W-MD, 10-1 vs. No. 20 Hunter Garvin (STAN)
Quarterfinals: W-D, 5-0 vs. No. 5 Dean Hamiti (WIS)
Semifinals: W-D, 8-6 vs. No. 1 Keegan O’Toole (MIZ)
Finals: vs. No. 2 Mitchell Mesenbrink (PSU)

174: No. 15 MJ Gaitan - DNP
First Round: L-D, 18-11 vs. No. 18 Benjamin Pasiuk (ARMY)
Consis. Rd. 1: WBF (4:11) vs. No. 31 Michael Wilson (RID)
Consis. Rd. 2: W-MD, 14-4 vs. No. 16 Jackson Turley (RUT)
Consis. Rd. 3: W-D, 13-8 vs. No. 8 Adam Kemp (POLY)
R12: L-D, 8-6 vs. No. 3 Edmond Ruth (ILL)

184: No. 17 Will Feldkamp - DNP
First Round: WBF (2:29) vs. No. 16 Nate Dugan (PRIN)
Second Round: L-TF, 19-4 (6:52) vs. No. 1 Parker Keckeisen (UNI)
Consis. Rd. 2: W-MD, 15-5 vs. No. 15 Reece Heller (PITT)
Consis. Rd. 3: L-D, 4-2 vs. No. 10 Dylan Fishback (NCST)

285: No. 2 Yonger Bastida - DNP
First Round: WBF (1:50) vs. No. 31 Bennett Tabor (MINN)
Second Round: W-TF, 20-5 (6:20) vs. No. 15 Lewis Fernandes (CORN)
Quarterfinals: L-D, 6-4 vs. No. 10 Lucas Davison (MICH)
R12: L-D, 8-3 vs. No. 13 Yaraslau Slavikouski (RUT)

The Cyclones must have left their defense in the locker room.

Maryland 20
Iowa State 10
5:00 first quarter

There will be some news to report on the recruiting trail in about 45 minutes as the Cyclones are poised to get their first commitment for the 2025 class. Stay tuned!!!

According to espn BPI strength of schedule updated last night after the first round, Iowa State SOS is #6 (Houston’s is #1) and Washingon State’s is 42nd.

They have beaten Arizona but all in we have played much tougher competition on the season. I know that kind of gets thrown out the window in the NCAAs - but in Omaha against our defense? We SHOULD be favored by the 6-8 points. One game at a time.

Duquesne taking it to BYU. Being very agressive. More so than BYU. Think they watched our film? BYU banked in a 3 so you know they can come back in a hurry.

Akron hanging in with Creighton.

Former UCLA player roasts ex-coach Steve Alford after Nevada's early NCAA tournament exit

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/form...ford-after-nevadas-early-ncaa-tournament-exit

Quote of the day:.

“Steve Alford been one of the worst coaches in college basketball history," Parker wrote, "he sucks and he [has had the] lame same haircut for 40 years hairspray gotta be cookin his brain."

Really don't think he's a very good coach. At least not top half of the big12. He has the third oldest squad in the whole ncaa and are getting drilled by Utah state, a team that had no returning points when Sprinkel took over the team last spring. Did I mention that they play poor defense.

I'm running out of things to make and tired of thinking about it. Does anyone have any ideas what to make. I like things with chicken and lots of vegetables and something I can make a lot of so I don't have to cook so often. While I enjoy cooking to some extent, I don't like the cleanup that follows, so I tend to make a lot so I have leftovers to last a couple of days.

I was at a bar last night (a true "rarity") in CoSprings and saw hoks/other hoks playing and made a comment about hating Iowa. Great convo starter as the 2 bartenders were from Indianola and iowa schitty and they were both hok fans (in a cool way). I mentioned something nice about Katie Clark and was met with silence... Turns out the iowa schitty girl had some unflattering stories about miss clark. Katie rented out half a nice restaurant as part of an NIL celebration (per my bartendress) and Katie wanted the rest of the place empty. Restaurant agreed with condition Katie do an autograph session. So katie and her group finished eating with the other half of the restaurant empty (no revenue, no pay for employees not needed etc..), left a 10% tip and Katie bolted without signing a single autograph.

Classic Katie apparently.

Had almost forgot the women play tonight. Between the men's basketball and the wrestling it's hard to give the women the proper attention. I'm expecting a tough game. Big 10 team with great tradition and a great coach. I look at it like anything we do is a bonus as compared to what we were looking at a month after the season ended last year. Congrats to the young ladies on what they've accomplished this year and best wishes tonight and hopefully for a few more games.

A ton of football recruits in the next two classes headed to Ames tomorrow, as I've heard there could be as many as 60. Here are six of the top names that I'm hearing will be checking out Iowa State.

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Appears to be putting on some pretty good muscle weight!

The story on Jelani Hamilton gave me a very good feeling about his future at Iowa State.

Does anybody have any insight into how Kayden Fish is doing? At 6'8", hopefully he will be ready to help out next year to at least provide some depth.