Per Jared Stansbury. I'm at work and can't link, if anyone can help me out with that. 6'4'' combo guard from Florida Southwestern. Stats include 40% from 3 and 80% FT this past season.

It's beginning to sound as if the government is planning on sending every adult $1,000 each in the next two weeks. Now we know the average hok fan will squander theirs on cheap beer, cigarettes, pork rinds, prostitutes and meth, but what will you do?

I probably will find some good values in the stock market to spend my money on. Or maybe a used respirator on Craigslist.

Thought I would start a thread to see what the people that are staying home during this time of emergency or doing to pass the time. I have been able to keep busy in the garage. I finished this football display case today. What is everyone else doing??

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2020/03/where-are-they-now-stevie-johnson/

LOVED the piece on Stevie Johnson, his transition from high school scoring star to critical role player on the elite 8 basketball team, then switch to football successfully and with impact. I remember attending one of the early games (I believe it was even a preseason game) and coach went off on Richard Evans because he had to put Stevie back in the game with 4 fouls. I was in the first few rows behind the bench and the spittle as he chewed his arse almost reached us there! Nice job Rob!

Anyone else having the site frequently crash on them lately? Unfortunately, I can really provide a link or anything on this one, but it’s been kicking me out a lot the last couple of days.

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I want to start something fun in these scary times of Covid-19. I had this weekend off which my plan was to watch the first and second rounds. So since there is no tournament this year. I am asking the following.

Name your best first round games in the past, maybe an upset, good game that went into overtime. If there is a link to watch please include that so I can watch on Thursday and Friday. You can add first four games as well.

Lets have fun with this.

COVID-19 is about to overwhelm our nation's supply of ventilators and we may need a war-like manufacturing effort to address the coming demand.

I've been trying to figure out how my company can help and have come across a few groups trying to respond.

This one was just set up by residents of Massachusetts General Hospital so I wanted to share since this board is full of fellow engineering grads whose companies may be able to help.

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https://www.coventchallenge.com/

Description: Founded by residents at Massachusetts General Hospital, the CoVent-19 Challenge will be a completely virtual open moonshot competition hosted on Slack to develop a rapidly deployable mechanical ventilation solution.

More details to come soon. We appreciate all of the advice and buzz that we are hearing from all parts of our global community.

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This is rapidly developing so for now, anyone interested can enter your email address at the link above for updates.

I'll try to keep this updated, but please share any other areas where we can help.

I'm going to be updating this daily until this whole thing is behind us. Hope you guys enjoy and it can take your mind off of things a bit.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2020/03/blog-chris-ongoing-quarantine-blog/

If you are sick, elderly, or otherwise in need of assistance, please add a post here with the basic information so somebody can IM or contact you. Hopefully somebody will be able to assist based on need, proximity, etc.

Examples:

1 - High-risk person in Des Moines with no relatives close by, need assistance with groceries.

2 - Have extra toilet paper, can donate to those in need in Waterloo.

3 - Elderly parent alone in Iowa City, need somebody to check on them.

Director Pollard put this out this morning.

https://cyclones.com/news/2020/3/16/athletics-pollards-message-to-cyclone-fans.aspx

Enjoy.

Football (And Random Things): Episode 62

I'm going to anoint myself the great decider... and award 2020 AA placings and team trophies based upon the final seeding for the tourney (at the time it was cancelled). The competitors and teams earned these seeds and rankings from the results of the entire season. I’ve been to multiple tourneys when they are cancelled the awards are given out based upon earned seeding.

I wish to congratulate the following 2020 AA award winners:

David Carr - 3rd Place AA
Ian Parker - 4th Place AA
Jarrett Degen - 8th Place - now a 2x AA

Plus ISU had the following R12 guys that came up just short:
Alex Mackall
Gannen Gremmel

Congrats to all of the #1 Seeds on their NCAA Championship titles.

From a Team perspective: Congratulations to the ISU coaches who coached this team finish 8th overall. No bonus points were earned in this tourney and all competitors wrestled to seed. According to a post by OOTClone: we would have finished 9th, with Iowa in first place. However, since it’s “my world” we always finish above the Hawks, so we move up 1 spot. According to OOTClone’s post I’d also like to congratulate ISU Alumni, Cael Sanderson and PSU for taking home yet another team title. Ohio State takes second, and Northwestern places 3rd (which is a huge surprise to me).

ps... because I'm the great decider I'm going to only qualify 32 participants per weight class and not have the stupid pigtail matches. Wishing all Cyclone fans a good, corona-virus free day!

kind of an interesting thought process, but at the same time this channel was a real what if for last season.
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Anyone going through College Basketball withdraw ESPN U is replaying a number of Big 12 games today. Quite a few ISU games on the schedule.

@BarstoolISU ESPNU ISU Sunday Big 12 Tournament games

7:00am - 2014 Final Iowa State vs Baylor
11:00am - 2016 Semi Iowa State vs Oklahoma
9:00pm - 2015 Final Iowa State vs Kansas
1:00am - 2017 Final Iowa State vs West Virginia (via
3:00am - 2019 Final Iowa State vs Kansas. @AtownCY
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You should make Tiktok links valid video formats. The ISUAD has an official Tiktok channel with over 30k followers.

With no sports and peeps recommended to stay at home, what are you watching or have watched that you can recommend?

I finished Altered Carbon 2 last week. Netflix. Would recommend if you have watched season 1. New story but would be way easier to understand if you've watched the previous. Good sci-fi.

Thinking of checking out the South Korean "Kingdom", also on Netflix.

I know this has been discussed before on here; CW and Blum did an excellent Summer Series on this a few years ago, but given the current sports desert we're in, I thought it'd be a fun topic to resurrect.

My 4:

Dan McCarney: Resurrected ISU football and made us competitive agian. Returned to bowl games. Turned around the series with Iowa. Laid a foundation that made things easier for the coaches after him.

Johnny Orr: Similar to McCarney, turned around a dead program, took us back to the NCAAs, started a pattern of recruiting great players who would go on to the NBA. Started Hilton Magic, which ISU basketball is known for nationally. Like Dan, laid a foundation that made things easier for the coaches who followed.

Fred Hoiberg: Grew up in Ames, arguably the most popular player in ISU basketball history, came back as coach and turned around a dormant program, brought ISU hoops back into the national spotlight and recruited some beloved all time great Cyclones. Arguably the most consistent ISU basketball coach.

Bill Fennelly: Took over a program that had zero fan support, and made it a consistent NCAA participant, and built fan support that is equaled at very few other women's hoops programs around the country.

Had Troy Davis won the Heisman, he would have easily been my #4. I do remember Chris had Cael as his #4 and made a good argument for him.

Curious to see who else the rest of you guys have.

Just saw an article. Guessing most of the AAU tournaments are as well so might as well. Having 4 signed should help Prohm.

Finding our one major missing piece (replacing Haliburton) will likely be a Juco or some type of other transfer so the missing evaluation time isn't going to hurt too much.

Any other attrition I think Prohm can afford to go big game hunting as our roster doesn't have massive holes rather in need of some star power. Therefore really don't need much eval on those types either.

Hopefully is completely screws the J$Hoks.

With the coronavirus pandemic and the possibility of extended time at home, I realized it's been almost exactly 30 years since the ice storm that knocked out power and shut things down for days. That's the closest example I could think of to what the next few weeks might be like if schools end up being canceled.

I think at my house it was about 4-5 days without power. No school the entire week, no hot showers, no Nintendo, no TV...probably a blessing the internet wasn't a thing yet. Daylight Saving Time didn't start until April then so it was still dark fairly early. After a few days we finally gave up and found a hotel with power, only to come home the next morning with power restored.

What I forgot about the period was the weather pattern around then included a tornado outbreak.

Haven't been able to find much about it, but I did find this:
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I've had a long held, though extremely minority opinion (as in I'm the only one) among coworkers, friends, etc, that among the Mexican fast food chains that Taco Tico reigns supreme. And I have to add that I do like Taco John's. But when going by strictly tacos, burritos, and the like, I don't think it's even close. I would go Tico, John's and as a distant third, Bell. I just wanted other people's opinions to support or destroy my opinion. Of course, if you disagree with me, you're wrong.

Earlier this week as I was flying back from a recruiting trip to California, I wrote this email intending to send it out as a preview of our NCAA tournament in Minneapolis.


Well, of course all of that -- and all of your lives -- have now changed. So I want to reach out and reassure you that despite the cancellation of the NCAA championships our guys are well and we will be moving forward here as soon as we are able.


I met with the team yesterday afternoon and talked to them about how missing the National tournament would cause them to cope with the kind of adversity we frequently coach them up to handle.


This season already had brought us our fair share of adversity, including multiple injuries. But despite that, we finished the Big 12 dual meet season tied for first with Oklahoma State and we finished second to Oklahoma State last weekend at the Big 12 tournament in Tulsa.


Just as encouraging, we were among only six universities in the country that had qualified to take at least 9 guys to the National championships in Minneapolis. The others were: Nebraska, Iowa, Virginia Tech, Lehigh, and Oklahoma State. So we were among great company!

I know the cancellation of the NCAA tournament is disappointing to all of you. We were set to take more than 600 Cyclone Fans with us to Minneapolis. That is a tremendous show of support and for that, I thank all of you.


We plan to keep pushing forward again next season and we will continue to need all of your support.

With Iowa State's spring break next week and online classes through at least April 3, most of our guys are now enjoying some R&R and have gone home to spend time with their families.


Moving forward, I want to mention that our freestyle competition season begins in mid-April with the UWW Junior National Tournament in Las Vegas. Right now we plan to take a handful of guys. Like with most else, though, we are in a wait-and-see mode on whether that tournament will take place. SO stay tuned!


We already are looking forward to next season and our incoming class.

Here are our signed Cyclones who will be freshmen next year:



Zach Redding (NY) just won a NY State Championship at 132 lbs. He currently is ranked No. 6 nationally in his weight class.

Cody Fisher (IA) just won his second IA State championship at 220 lbs. Cody was a 4-time finalist and currently is ranked No. 15 in his weight class nationally.

Cam Robinson (PA-AAA) just finished second in his state tournament at 152 lbs. He currently is ranked No. 6 nationally in his weight class.

Drew Woodley (MN-AAA) unfortunately had to default out of his state championship at 138 lbs due to a concussion. He placed second in state as a junior.

Ben Monroe (IA) from Ankeny Centennial was a three-time state finalist, taking 3rd place at the state tournament this year at 145 lbs and 2nd place last year.

Once we are allowed to resume recruiting after April 15th, we plan on adding a few more seniors to this list!

Stay tuned as we, like you, live through these very unusual times.


Go Cyclones!

Coach Dresser