A young woman matching her was found dead in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. FBI has contacted her family but hasn't called it officially yet.

Scouting West Virginia: Iowa State returns home as a heavy favorite against the Mountaineers Saturday.

@jacksonpence06 gets you prepped on the opponent.

I have two available section 212 row 16 seats 3-4.

Pm me with offer if interested.

Not to disparage our ongoing "Saw Dune" thread, but with Dune 2 officially greenlit, as well as the upcoming Dune: The Sisterhood HBO Max prequel series coming up, I figured it was time to start a thread for this expanding ongoing universe. With that said, the following are a few of the latest articles detailing both upcoming projects:



It is also worth noting that Denis has said recently he always imagined himself directing a 3-film arc, which would include Dune Part 1, Part 2 and Messiah. If he were to get to direct all 3, his plan would be to step back and do other projects at that point.

Does anyone know where I can find the font that ISU uses? I am sponsoring my step-son's youth basketball team (in the Philippines) and they want to call themselves the San Andres Cyclones. I need to make a logo and want to use the same font that Iowa State uses.




I would also like to add this old-school ISU logo (minus the "Iowa State", of course) underneath the text...

Anyone else invest in cryptocurrencies yet? I'm just starting out and wondering if anyone had advice for buying and trading.

Hey crew,

Here is video from today. Please find also the shortened clip where Coach Dresser talks about Kysen Terukina in my tweet.

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Looking for 2 great seats for the WV game as well as 2 Jonnys Wrist Bands. Message me price and location please. Thanks!

I didn't realize this at the time but after the Cincinnati game TJ went over .500 for his ISU career conference record (and he's still 1 game over after the Houston loss) and should finish the season with a winning record. He's currently one of only four ISU coaches to have a winning conference record. He joins the group with Larry, Fred and Floyd!

I know it isn't a beer, but this forum seemed like the best place for a thread about the Cold Brew by Northern Vessel. I think they had a launch yesterday. When/where will we be able to get it retail? I know I've heard, but my memory of the details may have gotten lost in all the fun of the Ames Lager release. @brentblum

It will be fun to watch Cyclone fans storm the regular HyVee stores, not just the Wine & Spirits department.

Seriously, it will be very popular at our first few tailgates that will start in the morning of hot days.

I’m watching the Creighton/UConn game. The Jays crowd knows how to stripe.

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#10 IOWA STATE (18-5, 7-3 BIG 12)
Cincinnati (15-8, 4-6 BIG 12)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH 6:00 P.M. CST
Fifth Third Arena / Cincinnati, OH


TV: ESPN2
Talent: Eric Rothman, pxp Jess Settles, analyst

Radio: Cyclone Radio Network (Varsity Network)
CRN Talent: John Walters (pxp); Eric Heft (analyst)

Cool shot I found on the interwebs this morning

Do you ever wonder where they are and if they’re still coaching? Same. This list doesn’t include dobos or special assistants.

2003/2004:

Wayne Morgan - Retired
Fred Quartlebaum - Kansas DOBO
Damon Archibald - Tarleton State Assistant
Bob Sundovold - UMSL (D2) Head Coach

Team record: 20-13


2004-2005:

Wayne Morgan - Retired
Damon Archibald - Tarleton State Assistant
Bob Sundovold - UMSL (D2) Head Coach
Darryl Sharp - Hampton Associate HC

Team record: 19-12


2005/2006:

Wayne Morgan - Retired
Damon Archibald - Tarleton State Assistant
Eric Brown - Utah State Assistant
Michael Mennenga - Oregon Assistant

Team record: 16-14


2006/2007:

Greg McDermott - Creighton Head Coach
Jeff Rutter - Western Michigan Assistant
TJ Otzelberger - Iowa State Head Coach
Jean Prioleau - SFA Assistant Coach

Team record: 15-16


2007/2008:

Greg McDermott - Creighton Head Coach
Jeff Rutter - Western Michigan Assistant
TJ Otzelberger - Iowa State Head Coach
Jean Prioleau - SFA Assistant Coach

Team record: 14-18


2008/2009:

Greg McDermott - Creighton Head Coach
Jeff Rutter - Western Michigan Assistant
TJ Otzelberger - Iowa State Head Coach
Daniyal Robinson - Cleveland St Head Coach

Team record: 15-17


2009/2010:

Greg McDermott - Creighton Head Coach
Jeff Rutter - Western Michigan Assistant
TJ Otzelberger - Iowa State Head Coach
Daniyal Robinson - Cleveland St Head Coach

Team record: 15-17


2010/2011:

Fred Hoiberg - Nebraska Head Coach
Bobby Lutz - Retired
TJ Otzelberger - Iowa State Head Coach
Elwyn McRoy - Unemployed

Team record: 16-16


2011/2012:

Fred Hoiberg - Nebraska Head Coach
TJ Otzelberger - Iowa State Head Coach
Matt Abdelmassih - St. John’s NIL role
Cornell Mann - GVSU (D2) Head Coach

Team record: 23-11


2012/2013:

Fred Hoiberg - Nebraska Head Coach
TJ Otzelberger - Iowa State Head Coach
Matt Abdelmassih - St. John’s NIL role
Cornell Mann - GVSU (D2) Head Coach

Team record: 23-12


2013/2014:

Fred Hoiberg - Nebraska Head Coach
Doc Sadler - Kansas Special Advisor
Matt Abdelmassih - St. John’s NIL role
Cornell Mann - GVSU (D2) Head Coach

Team record: 28-8


2014/2015:

Fred Hoiberg - Nebraska Head Coach
Charlie Henry - Georgia Southern Head Coach
Matt Abdelmassih - St. John’s NIL role
Cornell Mann - GVSU (D2) Head Coach

Team record: 25-9


2015/2016:

Steve Prohm - Murray State Head Coach
TJ Otzelberger - Iowa State Head Coach
Daniyal Robinson - Cleveland St Head Coach
William Small - USF Assistant

Team record: 23-12


2016/2017:

Steve Prohm - Murray State Head Coach
Daniyal Robinson - Cleveland St Head Coach
William Small - USF Assistant
Neill Berry - Marquette Assistant

Team record: 24-11


2017/2018:

Steve Prohm - Murray State Head Coach
Daniyal Robinson - Cleveland St Head Coach
William Small - USF Assistant
Neill Berry - Marquette Assistant

Team record: 13-18


2018/2019:

Steve Prohm - Murray State Head Coach
Daniyal Robinson - Cleveland St Head Coach
William Small - USF Assistant
James Kane - Dayton Assistant

Team record: 23-12


2019/2020:

Steve Prohm - Murray State Head Coach
Daniyal Robinson - Cleveland St Head Coach
William Small - USF Assistant
James Kane - Dayton Assistant

Team record: 12-20


2020/2021:

Steve Prohm - Murray State Head Coach
Daniyal Robinson - Cleveland St Head Coach
William Small - USF Assistant
James Kane - Dayton Assistant

Team record: 2-22


2021/2022:

TJ Otzelberger - Iowa State Head Coach
Kyle Green - Iowa State Assistant
Daniyal Robinson - Cleveland St Head Coach
JR Blount - Iowa State Assistant

Team record: 22-13



2022/2023:

TJ Otzelberger - Iowa State Head Coach
Kyle Green - Iowa State Assistant
Nate Schmidt - Iowa State Assistant
JR Blount - Iowa State Assistant

Team record: 19-14


2023/2024:

TJ Otzelberger - Iowa State Head Coach
Kyle Green - Iowa State Assistant
Nate Schmidt - Iowa State Assistant
JR Blount - Iowa State Assistant

Currently: 20-6

This one always gets me
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So here we are in the home stretch. Four games left and destiny within the ladies' hands. Houston is a team I would expect to beat every day and twice on Sunday. But, the question we all have on our minds is which sisters team will show up?

First possession showed man defense (something the team appears to be working in more) and resulted in a steal and two for Crooks at the other end. The sisters would score again before turning it over on their third possession. Three straight empty possessions allowed the Cougs to tie it up. The three wasn’t falling at all at this point. Houston would take the lead on an and one. The turnovers were starting to add up with very messy play on offense. Lots of missed shots. The ladies were on a wee bit of a drought. The sisters were stuck on six points after missing their fifth trey. Meanwhile Houston stretched their lead to 11-6 after a 7-0 run. Ugly offensive quarter for the ladies. Game was looking like others where our opponent is hitting treys like crazy. But Joens would hit a trey of her own and Bristow would score off a steal to pull within one 13-14. Bristow would get another steal and hit Joens for two. Belanger hit a trey for the lead 18-17. The usual screwup on the "hold for the last shot" happened again and the ladies led by one.

The second would start with a mix of misses by the sisters. Natabou would break the two minute drought. Ryan would follow with a fast break drive for two and the harm. 23-17 ISU. Brown is a mix so far. Good on the defensive end and a bit of a struggle on offense. Houston fortunately was missing a lot. Belanger hit a trey for an 8 point lead. All five freshmen were on the court and Joens hit Crooks for two and the harm. 29-18. Bristow hit a trey to stretch the lead further. Houston had one free throw for the quarter to this point (32-18 7 min in). Bristow nailed a trey to extend the lead to 16. Crooks got another after a Brown miss for two. Brown finally scored with a trey. A pair of Crooks free throws would give the sisters a 21 point lead after a 26-6 2nd quarter. Houston had ONE basket.

The third started the same way with Crooks scoring. But Houston would start hot with two straight scores. The feeds to Crooks continued and she didn’t disappoint. Good ball movement on offense. But it seemed like as soon as Crooks went out the offense grew stagnant. Brown was just plain struggling on offense tonight. So far she was 4-14 and had 4 turnovers. Messy. The Cougs hit back to back to back treys (wide open) and cut the lead to 12. The ladies were on their heels a bit. Brown made a nice drive for two, but the Cougs keep answering as Brown fouled on a made shot on the other end. And the turnover bug struck again on Ryan and then she picked up her third foul. A rough quarter as Houston wins this one 24-15. Lead was now 59-47.

The fourth started with Belanger scoring on a give and go reverse layup. On the other end we fouled again. Defense was a wee bit rough around the edges. Crooks scored off a feed from Brown for a 14 point lead, Brown scored and the lead was 16. Fouls were accumulating for the sisters as Brown, Ryan and AJ had three. And then…a ten second violation by Ryan. After Houston cut the lead to 11, Belanger would hit a trey. The sisters continued to foul. On the good side of the ledger, Ryan would take a dish drive and score. But Houston just kept answering. At the 5:20 mark the lead was 13, 72-58. The turnover bug had bit again. Houston hit a trey and it’s an 11 point lead again. AJ fouled out as Houston scored and hit the free throw to cut the lead to ten. Ryan committed yet another turnover. The sisters were just being very careless on offense. Meanwhile, Crooks crept closer to the freshman scoring record with a pair of free throws. The game clock thankfully wound down with a final score of 76-64. Good road win.

Observations

POG - No doubt. Audi Crooks. Twenty-Five points on 9-11 shooting and 7-8 from the line. Don’t you love how her free throw shooting keeps improving? 12 boards for a big double double. Even better…she gets to break the freshman scoring record at home (held by one of my all time favs- Megan Taylor).

Brown - If I told you she had 16 points and 13 boards you’d think she had a great game. Well on the defensive end she did. The offense was a struggle all night as she missed every type of conceivable shot. Somehow she shot the ball seven more times than Crooks and ended up 7-18 on the day. Add to it an ugly seven turnovers.

Belanger - was pretty on and off tonight…mostly off as she only connected on 4 of 13 shots. Eleven points and three turnovers

Ryan - Boy, she had some pretty plays, some amazing plays and a couple of slap your head “what was that” mistakes. Fortunately, those were very few. Nine points, 11 boards and seven assists with three turnovers. Solid.

AJ - Not her best game of the season. Had a propensity to foul and ended up with five on the night. Only 2 points and 2 assists. We need her to be available. The fouls need to be corrected.

Natabou - two points in only 7 minutes of playing time. Seemed when she was on the court our offense stalled. That’s not all on her, but the chemistry is def different.

Joens - her only shot was our first trey of the night and ignited the dominance we saw in the first half. Three boards and three turnovers.

Bristow - had two of the nicest steals of the game and both led to scores (one by her). She reminds me of a thoroughbred colt out there. You can see the talent, but once in a while the colt bucks and oopsie…Eight points, three boards and three assists on 26 minutes. I like. A lot.

Turnovers - the team had a rough first with six, calmed down in the second and then the second half was a mishmash of good plays intermixed with head scratchers. Ended up with 18. This HAS to be fixed. Sadly, its a trend rather than an abnormality.

Assists - I love this trend though. Twenty- Three assists on 30 made baskets. Keep giving me this ball movement. This also says something about the struggle when ball movement doesn’t happen.

Rebounding - FIFTY THREE boards. Holy cow batman! Houston had 28.

Free throws - We only got to the line for 11 attempts. Hit nine. That’s great. But Houston had 19 attempts. We got sloppy in the second half and couldn’t stop fouling them.

The second quarter was total domination. It was a combination of how bad Houston was and the sisters taking advantage of what was given them. Now if they could just bottle that. The second half you would hope would be more of the same…or even playing even. But it wasn’t. Those bad quarters are something else that need fixed. I’m so glad the ladies got over the hump of this road game. Now they come home for a Saturday game rematch with a very tough BYU team. BYU is 5-9 in the conference and losing as I write this. Needless to say they have some very good players and battled us hard in Utah. Let’s show up and support our team to another victory and see Audi break the freshmen scoring record!

I can't recall this info being posted, but the MBB team is taking a summer trip to Bahamas in early August.

They will play international teams prepping for FIBA Championships. Sounds like a lot better competition than usual summer tours.

While I’ve been a casual viewer of most the MCU movies since they started coming out in 2008, up until lately, it has been just that… casual entertainment. Well, a few months ago, I decided to give the whole MCU a big chance to fully engage me and wow, it has been a fun ride ever since. What I wanted to do was to watch everything in chronological order, and by everything, I mean the movies, TV shows and even the official tie-in comics. Most of the comics are just some type of prelude to the movies. Took me a few months to pull this off. To get a good chronological order, I found this website and I followed it to a “T”, which turned out to be a great way to go:

http://www.storyhobby.com/timelines/marvel-multiverse-chronology/marvel-cinematic-universe-timeline/

Anyway, now that I’m caught-up, I thought it would be fun to rank and debate what I just watched, so feel free to rank and chime in yourself. Also, I figured it would be good to start an ongoing thread where people can post any new news items related to the MCU as they come out. So, here is my ranking of the entire MCU, minus the comics.

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Thought this movie had the best drama and best action scenes of all the movies
2. Marvel’s The Avengers – Iconic way to pull everything together with the best villain in the MCU
3. Iron Man – Epic way to start the Universe with an unbelievable star for a headliner. Never got into the Iron Monger villain though.
4. Guardians of the Galaxy – Best space epic since the original Star Wars movies. Also was probably the funniest movie of the MCU so far.
5. Marvel’s Daredevil: Season 1 – Loved the street-level more-adult-themed tone of this show. Also contains probably the second best villain in the MCU. Being on Netflix is a great way to un-cuff all the normal problems of making a TV show for network viewing.
6. Ant-Man - Had super-low expectations, but walked away pleasantly surprised. Yet another weak villain, but contained some great comedy with some great actors. Paul Rudd won me over when I once was really skeptical of him.
7. Captain America: The First Avenger – Epic first-half of the movie with Cap’s origin story, but believe it or not, I found Red Skull a little underdeveloped. Loved the WWII time period aspect of this one.
8. Iron Man 2 – Many will mock me, but I actually really enjoyed this movie and actually enjoyed it more than Iron Man 3. Make fun of me all you want, but I didn’t think Whiplash was that bad. I think this movie gets unfairly criticized.
9. Avengers: Age of Ultron – Fun movie, but suffered from too much CGI action, too many characters, and too many storylines.
10. Thor: The Dark World – Criticize me if you will, but I actually liked this movie and thought it got an unfair bad wrap. I didn’t find Malekith that bad and I actually liked this movie more than the original Thor.
11. Iron Man 3 – Don’t know what it is, but I just never really got into this one, and it probably had something to do with the big Mandarin villain twist towards the end. Also never really liked Killian either. Again, I surprisingly like Iron Man 2 better
12. Marvel’s Agents of Shield: Season 2 – Liked the less cheese and more serious tone than the first season. Also, loved the Inhuman’s storyline. Used to hate Skye, but now don’t mind her.
13. Marvel’s Agent Carter – Loved the period timepiece aspect of this. Great show.
14. Thor – Don’t know what it is, but I just never got into this storyline or villains as much as the others. Again, I surprisingly liked Thor: Dark World more.
15. The Incredible Hulk – Good movie, but not great. Never was into Norton for the role, so was glad when the switch was made.
16. Marvel’s Agents of Shield: Season 1 – Struggled hardcore in the first half-dozen episodes, but then finally picked up when Winter Soldier storyline set in and the cheese started to fade. Overall, ended up really enjoying this.

It is also worth noting that I haven't actually disliked anything so far, while the first half-dozen episodes of Agents of Shield Season 1 came close. But again, even that got better. Overall, I've just found entertainment and merit in all of them, which is really pretty impressive, but of course, I definitely like some more than others.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2019/05/pollard-gives-updates-on-iowa-state-athletic-facility-upgrades/

Is there more released other than the hand full of renderings from last November? I want to see site plans, floor plans, elevations and even more renderings, please!