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TULSA, Okla. – Iowa State pushed two through to the quarterfinals during Session II of the NCAA Championships Thursday evening inside the BOK Center. David Carr and Marcus Coleman each earned second-round victories to stay on the championship side of their respective brackets.

Iowa State sits tied for 13th place with 12.0 points after day one action. All eight Cyclones are still alive for day two with two wrestlers on the championship side and six in the wrestlebacks.

Carr was Iowa State's first quarterfinalist. He controlled from start to finish as he picked up his third win of the season against Northern Iowa's Austin Yant. Carr secured six takedowns in the 15-4 victory.

The win sets Carr up with a quarterfinal match up against 2021 165-pound NCAA Champion Shane Griffith of Stanford.

Coleman won a nail-biter over Iowa's Abe Assad in the second round. The pair were deadlocked at 1-1 entering TB-1 but the Cyclone managed a 30-second ride out in the first half. Assad gave Coleman an escape, looking for the winning takedown, but Coleman managed to evade the Hawkeye for a 2-1 win.

Casey Swiderski lived to fight another day with a 7-3 win over Pennsylvania's Carmen Ferrante in the consolation first round. Swiderski had three takedowns in the match, including two in the final 30 seconds to seal the victory.

Jason Kraisser also picked up a win in the wrestlebacks with a 7-2 victory over Appalachian State's Tommy Askey. Kraisser was active early with a takedown in the first period before adding another in the third.

Zach Redding fell to the wrestlebacks after a 12-4 defeat to the No. 3 seed Vito Arujau of Cornell.

Paniro Johnson couldn't overcome an early 6-0 deficit after Penn State's Shayne Van Ness took him feet-to-back in the first period. Johnson battled back but couldn't dig out of the hole as he fell, 14-8.

At 197 pounds, Yonger Bastida was much the aggressor but couldn't finish several prime opportunities against No. 4 seed Ethan Laird of Rider. Bastida was in deep on a leg several times but was eventually countered by Laird and gave up a takedown with 22 seconds remaining, falling 3-1.

Sam Schuyler dropped a heartbreaker, 2-1, to Northwestern's No. 9 Lucas Davison. Schuyler began the final period on bottom, trailing 1-0, when Davison returned Schuyler to the mat hard and the Cyclone was forced to take injury time. The mat return was reviewed for an illegal slam, but no call was made. Out of the review, Davison was given his choice, chose bottom, and earned an escape. Schuyler received a late point for stalling but was unable to secure the winning takedown.

Up Next
Session III of the NCAA Championships is set for 11 a.m. on ESPNU. Quarterfinals, as well as the consolation second and third rounds, will be contested.

Iowa State Results
133: No. 14 Zach Redding
First Round: W-D, 7-2 vs. Domenic Zaccone (CAMP)
Second Round: L-MD, 12-4 vs. Vito Arujau (CORN)
Consolation Second Round: vs. Angelo Rini (COL)

141: No. 24 Casey Swiderski
First Round: L-D, 4-1 vs. Mosha Schwartz (OU)
Consolation First Round: W-D, 7-3 vs. Carmen Ferrante (PENN)
Consolation Second Round: vs. Vince Cornella (CORN)

149: No. 5 Paniro Johnson
First Round: W-D, 2-2 TB-1 (RT) vs. Alec Hagan (OHIO)
Second Round: L-D, 14-8 vs. Shayne Van Ness (PSU)
Consolation Second Round: vs. Doug Zapf (PENN)

157: No. 25 Jason Kraisser
First Round: L-D, 5-3 vs. Ed Scott (NCST)
Consolation First Round: W-D, 7-2 vs. Tommy Askey (APP)
Consolation Second Round: Kaden Gfeller (OSU)

165: No. 1 David Carr
First Round: W-MD, 10-2 vs. Josh Kim (HARV)
Second Round: W-MD, 15-4 vs. Austin Yant (UNI)
Quarterfinals: vs. Shane Griffith (STAN)

184: No. 5 Marcus Coleman
First Round: W-MD, 12-3 Jacob Ferreira (HOF)
Second Round: W-D, 2-1 TB-1 vs. Abe Assad (IOWA)
Quarterfinals: vs. Trey Munoz (ORST)

197: No. 13 Yonger Bastida
First Round: W-D, 5-2 vs. Evan Bockman (UVU)
Second Round: L-D, 3-1 vs. Ethan Laird (RID)
Consolation Second Round: vs. Andrew Davison (NW)

285: No. 8 Sam Schuyler
First Round: W-D, 4-2 vs. Michael Wolfgram (WVU)
Second Round: L-D, 2-1 vs. Lucas Davison (NW)
Consolation Second Round: vs. Jacob Bullock (IND)

I legitimately feel like we may win a national championship. Not this year, but in general. Our basketball program is recruiting at a level that will allow you to compete at the very top, and we have a coach that emphasizes the traits (defense and rebounding) that can make that happen.

I loved the playing style with Fred, but always felt we had a bit of a ceiling due to lack of emphasis on defense. Kane’s team before Niang’s injury maybe had a shot but that’s four more games they’d have had to win.

Anyone else feel similarly?

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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