I've always liked Fran Franschilla doing Big 12 games but his love affair with Bill Self this year is starting to annoy the hell out of me. My guess is when Fran goes to the gym he is decked out in Adidas gear from one end to the other.

Some stats on the incoming freshmen*

Audi Crooks is averaging 30 points and 13.8 rebounds per game and is shooting 75 percent from the field despite going 0-6 from three so far.

Arianna Jackson is averaging 19.7 ppg, 8.7 RBs, 2,8 assists and 3.8 steals per game for a mediocre Roosevelt team that is 10-7 on the year.

Kelsey Joens is averaging 23.7 ppg, 12.2 RBs, 3.7 assists and 4 steals per game for 10-5 Liberty

Addy Brown, our McDonald's all-American, is averaging 20.2 ppg, 10.1 RBs and 4 assists per game.

Jalynn Bristow is at a new smaller school now and it's tough to find info on how she's doing, but at her old school, she averaged 22.39 ppg and 12.38 RBs for her career. She averaged 27..6 and 15.5 last year. She has had numerous 30+ point games this year, but as far as an average goes, I have no idea.

* Thanks to MRed on a different site for most of these stats.

Glad to see this arrogant POS gets what he deserves. Probably the newscaster I disliked more than any ever. Well, he ties Rachel Maddow and Rush Limbaugh.

This running features has been given a refresh. Cyclones currently at 11 scholarships and have two remaining to reach the allotted 13.

Iowa State Basketball Unofficial Scholarship Chart

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Just a heads up if you were going to look for it tomorrow night.

Is anyone following MHver3 on Twitter? Sounds like there is a lot going regarding conference realignment. Is there any validity to his posts?

Iowa State Media Relations

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State men’s basketball senior forward Aljaž Kunc has been named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.

In 16 games this season, Kunc is averaging 9.2 points and 5.1 rebounds per game, along with 1.6 assists and 1.3 steals per game. Kunc has scored in double figures in each of his last three games, including a career-high 22 points in a win over TCU. Kunc missed the first nine Big 12 games with a broken finger.

To qualify for the honor, student-athletes must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.50, be a sophomore academically and have a year-in-residence at their current school and have appeared in at least 50 percent of the team's contest.

The 2022-23 Academic All-District® Men’s and Women's Basketball Teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes basketball honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA — for each gender.

Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced in mid-March.

Ryan Clanton interview on another Cyclone website is impressive

I've been enjoying watching the NET rankings on a daily basis now that we approach March. One thing I just noticed today, is that North Carolina does not have a single quad 1 win the entire season, and equally surprising have only played 8 quad 1 games. The ACC is much worse than I thought it was but still figured they picked up some quad 1's sometime along the way but nope.

With their NET ranking in the mid-40's, I'll be rooting for them here on out (puke) as I think if they drop below 50, that drops our win against them to a quad 2 win.

Caught red handed knowing they are lying to their viewers.

I won't ever listen to someone tell me fox is not a propaganda network. The facts are overwhelming. Only a cult member can believe otherwise.

The texts from Fox's Tucker and Hannity etc showed they lied and knew it and lamented that their gullible audience was believing their lies.

Three times ISU has held it's opponent to 62 or less on the opponent's court and lost. In those three games ISU also outrebounded the other team by a fair margin. Normally, you would think that would be enough to win, but turnovers & horrible shooting were problems. Grill's injury, Gabe reverting back to Gabe, and Holmes being the #1 priority for the opponent's defense have caused the offense to sputter. Really can't expect more out of the defense and not really sure what TJ can do differently to score points. The team is what it is.

Have fun

I believe in was Fran that threw out this during the game on Saturday, about Big 12 defense. He felt that the Big 12 will struggle in the tournament because the tournament is called differently than Big 12 games, and the Big 12 will struggle with foul trouble.