With men's basketball season coming to an abrupt end on Friday, let's shift gears and look ahead to Iowa State spring practice, which begins this Thursday. Here's a look at the quarterback group, which is heading into the spring very thin in numbers with preferred walk-on Ashton Cook retiring in the offseason due to a shoulder injury.

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ESPN has a mock WNBA draft with Soares going 4th and Ashley going 10th. Not sure how accurate this will turn out, but it would be good publicity for the program.

Half the front page and a huge photo marking the win over 10 seed Georgia.....and this is the real front page, not the front page of the sports section. They REALLYwent nuts in the sports section.
Makes no sense. It wasn’t an upset and I think it’s the third time in four years they have made the sweet sixteen.
When I saw it, I assumed there was a transgender angle, as that is the paper’s obsession these days. But no.
Seriously, it was what you would expect to see after a national championship.

165 years young today. March 22, 1858.

41 points in 40 minutes. Seriously?

Now this is really crazy and probably the best team performance in ISU history.

The women just set the all time 54 hole scoring record at 60 under par. They beat the previous record by 10 strokes. 2nd place Ohio State was 34 strokes behind. This was at mountain view CC near Tuscon collegiate with probably 25 teams there. Their team score on their final round today was 29 under par.

As a golfer, it doesn't even make sense to me.

That Xavier is taking Pittsburgh to the woodshed today? I’m not. That’s how f’in bad we were Friday. We made a play-in team look all world. SMH.

Des Moines Register Article:

We knew T.J. Otzelberger could recruit. As an assistant, he helped lure some of the finest men’s basketball talent Iowa State has seen. Georges Niang, Abdel Nader, Matt Thomas, and Naz Mitrou-Long. Wesley Johnson played while Otzelberger was an assistant. And Craig Brackins, too.

Don’t forget Diante Garrett, Scott Christopherson, Mike Taylor and Melvin Ejim. And if you need more, there’s Justin Hamilton, Chris Allen, Will Clyburn and Tyrus McGee.

Among others.

With the transfer portal anything is possible. Jerome Tang took over the KState
program in March after 10 years as a Baylor assistant. His first team meeting……..
2 players showed up. That is a rebuild

Just listened to a pod on CF with Blum talking about out NLI. What continues to shake me is our program (writ large) is openly discussing the cost to get a shooter in the portal to take a call from ISU.

Caveat RIGHT here - he is doing the lords work (I'd call it the DARK lord's work but...) and everyone else is already ahead of us (NOT because of him but because of us).

Blum (hope he pops over here to clarify my comments) said it's basically menu pricing for levels of players and for a shooter in the portal will cost us 6 figures just to get a look from those caliber of players.

What struck me is Blum said we will NEVER pay for players, but I'm unable to reconcile the current situation with that statement again referring to my caveat. I believe his statement is we won't pay a player to COME to ISU, but if a player COMES to ISU, we will pay him. I was a CPA for years and that reconciliation doesn't make sense.

I guess what I'm trying to say is I really want children - sorry different forum - I really want a top flight program but can't fathom the additional complexities TJ has to go through JUST to give us a look...

I'm old and once again understanding how programs like ours are at best in the wind hoping for a charitable puff from the winds of money.

Their defense is atrocious.

We won't see much of Jirehl Brock in the heavier portions of practice, and he'll likely be out on April 22nd's spring game at Jack Trice Stadium, so that leaves more work for Norton, Sanders, and Harris. Here's a closer look:

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I gotta say Andy nailed it this time....... https://who13.com/sports/soundoff/w...2wZksHn9_Sr3ttYAnl2fkMtyOx8r2DKyN6X7-fPjIniJ4

Anybody know the dad. Steve Anderson

? Psyclone. Aren't you from Oakland?

Apparently Bruce Weber could evaluate point guards. I can see why they needed to play on different teams.

Loving watching him play! 5’8” guy is inspiring to all small basketball players out there! His passing unbelievable. Kstate 0-12 from 3 point range or they’d be up by lot more than 3 at half over Kentucky. Hope they heat up from 3 in 2nd half and stomp Kentucky!

Missed Lampkin tonight. He would have slowed down Timmie

In a moment of clarity as I look at some scores, I definitely appreciate what the ISU staff has done over the last 2 years after taking over a 2 win team.

I look at the the Sweet 16 run last year and this year’s 5th place Big 12 finish with a 6 seed in the Tourney. All with a tag tag group of players brought together to mesh and play as a team.

Then I look at Arkansas who beat Kansas but was only deemed worthy of an 8 seed, despite having 2 projected lottery picks and 2 more projected draft picks. So basically more of a future NBA roster under-coached to an underachieving regular season than a shocking 8 over 1 seed upset.

The Pitt game was beyond hard to watch, however TJ and crew have greatly exceeded expectations the first two years with less talent than his competition in conference.

I’d rather have gone through that than what Purdue or Arizona just had happen to them.

TJ is far ahead of expectations from the day he was hired to unf*ck Prohm’s mess.
Far ahead and with the best recruiting class in our history coming in.

And he’s not going to Chicago or an off campus apartment party in Columbia.

So we’re in a great place with TJ.

Kansas lost.

Isn't it amazing how human Pitt can look when a team is shooting > 50% and near that in threes?