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Nebraska-ed

Just had a follow up with an oral surgeon about a new implant ($$) Really nice guy who hails from Oklahoma and undergrad there. We talk a bit about sports and football. He is livid about OU bailing out on B12 and actually said he expected them to suffer the same fate as the corndogs. Aside from some increase in cash - which he thinks may be only a few year benefit - he thinks that following Texas was stupid. We agree on history, rivalries, recruiting, etc., but mostly on respect. None of those arrogant SEC pukes respect a B12 immigrant. Texas has a Texas-sized ego that insolates them for even perceiving how they are viewed, so they got no respect wherever they were.
We both feel that the current conference arrangements are a house of cards.
That is all.

2024 College Football TV Ratings

Iowa State ranks as the 21st most-viewed team in the nation for the 2024 season.

BASKETBALL ***RELEASE: Iowa State's Gilbert on Wooden Award Midseason Top 25**

Iowa State Media Relations

Los Angeles, Calif. – Iowa State senior Keshon Gilbert is one of 25 players named to the Los Angeles Athletic Club’s John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Watch List. Gilbert and Kansas’ Hunter Dickinson are the only two players from the Big 12 Conference on the list.

Gilbert is averaging 16.3 points, 5.0 assists, 3.6 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game this year. He is one of just eight players in the country to hit those marks this season. He’s scored a season-high 24 points twice this year, coming in victories over Dayton (Nov. 26) and No. 5 Marquette (Dec. 4). Gilbert is shooting 54.5 percent from the floor and 32.3 percent from downtown, as he’s led the No. 3 Cyclones to a 12-1 record to start the year.

Selected by a preseason poll of national college basketball experts, the list comprises 25 student-athletes who are front-runners for the most prestigious honors in college basketball: the Wooden Award All-American Team and the Wooden Award Most Outstanding Player.

The players on the list are considered strong candidates for the 2025 John R. Wooden Award Men’s Player of the Year. Players not selected for the midseason list remain eligible for inclusion on the Wooden Award late-season list, and the National Ballot. The National Ballot will feature 15 top players who have demonstrated to their universities that they meet or exceed the Wooden Award qualifications.

Nearly 1,000 voters will be invited to rank 10 of the 15 players on the ballot in order of preference when voting opens during the NCAA Tournament. Voters will also consider performances in the tournament’s early rounds, players’ contributions to their teams and their character. The Wooden Award All-American Team will be announced during the week of the NCAA Tournament’s “Elite Eight.”

The winners and the All-Americans of the 2025 John R. Wooden Award, presented by Principal, will be honored at the Los Angeles Athletic Club on Friday, April 11.
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BASKETBALL ***RELEASE: Crooks Named to Wooden Award Midseason Watch List***

Iowa State Media Relations

AMES, Iowa - Iowa State women's basketball sophomore Audi Crooks has been named to the 2024-25 John R. Wooden Award Top 25 Midseason Watch List as announced by the Los Angeles Athletics Club on Tuesday evening. This is the first time in her career that Crooks has been named to the award’s midseason watch list.

Crooks became Iowa State’s 35th 1,000 point scorer on Sunday evening, the fastest ISU player to reach the milestone in her 49th career game. She leads Iowa State in scoring and rebounding this season, averaging 23.2 points and 8.1 rebounds per game. Crooks owns the fifth best career scoring average among active NCAA Division I women’s basketball players as well, averaging 20.5 points per game over her career.

The Algona, Iowa native has scored in double figures in 48 consecutive games and finished with 20-plus points 27 times in her career. She has tallied 20 or more points in each of Iowa State’s last six contests.

Crooks and the Cyclones return to action on Wednesday night in Tempe, Arizona. Iowa State meets Arizona State for the first time since November 1995, now as Big 12 members. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m. CT and the game will be televised on ESPN+.
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