Glad to see him enjoying some fruits of his labor.

Feel free to post your Selection Sunday comments in the thread below.

to Minnesota. I missed this over the last 10 days or so. Not all that surprised really.

Iowa has 6 teams in the NCAA Championships with 3.2 million people. If California had the same number of teams per capita as Iowa, it would have 73 teams.

👍👍

....and probably a precursor to Rodgers actually going there? We shall see.

Here's my life in prison for a POS like this guy. Life inprisonment but tied up and family members get to come in daily and beat the crap out of him however they choose with whatever they choose. I lean left on some things and right on others. When it comes to crime and punishment I'm about as far right as it comes.

Morning all! Seeing if anyone is doing a Cyclone game watch tomorrow? I know many years ago we used to meet up at Tanners off 119th. Me along with some fellow cyclone supers are going to Tanners on 143rd. Let me know!

CBS flashed up a stat of Huggy making the Sweet 16 eight of the last thirteen tourneys.

I started liking Huggy during last year’s tourney when he was on the post game discussion panel. Cut right through the BS of the pretenders sitting next to him.

Cyclones just wrapping up media obligations ahead of today’s open practice session.

Anybody watching this?

The starting center for Pittsburgh is not playing tonight, apparently it was a surprise. I don't know if it is sickness or injury.

Both of these teams have some talent, but they play kind of hurried and sloppy.

Pitt 22
MSU 18

8 minutes ago in the first half

From CBS:

28. (6) Iowa State vs. (11) Mississippi State/Pitt​

“Friday | 3:10 p.m. | truTV
Iowa State started 13-2 (4-0 Big 12) and is 6-11 since. Over the last five weeks, the Cyclones are 1-7 against teams not named Baylor. Making matters worse, they play at a slow pace and commit too many turnovers. This may be one of the worst No. 6 seeds in NCAA Tournament history, and neither of their potential first round opponents are particularly interesting.”

The “expert” may have a point, but I’ve seen enough contempt/ignorance about ISU across the internet. Defense wins championship and the Cyclones are a good/elite defense this season. I believe our guys (and women) will prove these naysayers wrong during the tournament.

Wrestling and Basketball Championships both underway. (Why don't they figure out how to stagger these championship events?)

Wrestling:
Track Wrestling - Follow the action on all mats with graphics. The website is filled with other data if you learn how to navigate it.
Matcast - All eight mats on one screen. ESPN+ also has each individual mat. Use Trackwrestling to figure out when ISU guys are coming up, then select that mat.
TV coverage by round - Nice summary of TV coverage on Cyclones.com. ESPN+ is essential for most of this coverage.
Cyclone Audio Broadcast - Varsity Network App has audio coverage

Basketball: CBS, TNT, TBS & TruTV - You know what to do.

Of course, the Pitt forward faced some questions pertaining to his time in Ames during this morning's media session here in Greensboro...

Q. Blake, I'm sure you're anticipating this, but you know a lot of guys on this team. You spent some time in Ames. What does it feel like? Give us your emotions and thoughts on going head-to-head with the team that you know so well?

BLAKE HINSON: I'm just ready to play my next game in March Madness, and I'm focused on winning.

Q. To follow up on that, Blake, did you have much of a reaction when you saw that this was a possibility of playing a team where you had spent time?

BLAKE HINSON: No.

Q. Blake, what was the situation where you came to Iowa State and then left Iowa State?

BLAKE HINSON: I would rather not say.

I know, there are multiple threads. Most are derailed to who knows what topic. But, this late in the season, next year's roster has to be a target.

We know we are losing Caleb Grill, Gabe Kalscheur, Osun Osunniyi, Jaz Kunc, and Jalen Holmes. (5 of the top 6)

We know we have 4 incoming Freshmen. Omaha Billiew, Jelani Hamilton, Milan Momcilovic, and Caden Fish.

If the rest, maybe the best way is the percentage of confidence they will return.

Tamin Lipsey - 90% (only because no one is 100% any more.)

Jeremiah Williams- 90% - see above

Demarion Watson - 70% - likely, but less sure

Robert Jones - 50/50 (mostly dependent on if the staff wants to keep him around)

Tre King - 34/66 - Been here 2 years at a position of need and little headway

Hasan Ward - 20/80 - Does not seem to fit

Eli King - No idea really, maybe just needs time or may be a miss.

Saw this bit of trivia on ESPN.

When was the last time EIU made it to the Sweet 16?

Answer: 1999 - 23 years.

Ouch

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As we learned in 2000, how can we hope to compete with that UPS Hub??? Long term posters must be as intimidated as I!

Very entertaining!
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I spend precious little time boning up on financial institutions and their risk portfolios, but this is intriguing... I haven't seen why the bank run started but with the run the first day, the bank had to sell some treasuries to make up for the loss in deposits. The problem is they had a HUGE number of REALLY low interest rate instruments and had to sell their 1%ers in a 6% market and took HUGE losses. No clue on woke stuff but inflation really played a role here in addition to - educated guess here - some bad back office competence and maybe some carelessness by the regulators.

I'll get the number wrong but less than 1% of their customers have accounts that will be covered by FDIC. MOST of their customers have accounts in the hundred of millions and they are THE bank the start-ups here - and in CHINA!!!!!! - utilize. Lots of rich Californians have called for the fed to make each and every depositor whole but Yellen came out today and said "nades la grande".... That is the right answer.

Anyone concerned by a larger contagion?