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Tag: Iowa State basketball

  • Always A Cyclone: Your Guide to Former ISU Players in the NCAA

    Always A Cyclone: Your Guide to Former ISU Players in the NCAA

    When Fred Hoiberg was hired at Iowa State in 2010, the practice of players transferring schools in college athletics was fairly rare and heavily stigmatized. It wasn’t easy to do—there were plenty of hoops to jump through and the player was almost never immediately eligible to play at the new school, and players asking for […]

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  • College Basketball Thank You Letters, Part 1

    College Basketball Thank You Letters, Part 1

    Howdy TGS fans! I have been on a long hiatus from writing on the Internet, but I’m here like John Starks in a do or die game for the Knicks. Over the past year, I’ve been relentless – coming home from my sports radio job to watch college basketball almost every evening and taking tireless […]

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  • My Life as the Black Sheep

    My Life as the Black Sheep

    Lots of people have a “thing.” Art, music, sports, something that makes them tick and keeps them going day after day. For the rest of my family, that thing is basketball. For me, it’s not. It took years of trying to make it so, playing year-round and forsaking basically any other hobbies, until I finally […]

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  • Let’s break down the Big Dance

    Let’s break down the Big Dance

    Finally, we’ve reached the three most exciting weeks of the year as Selection Sunday has passed and the NCAA Tournament is set to tip-off on Thursday. Well, I guess it is technically Tuesday, but the First Four sucks and I’m not counting it in this article. If you disagree with that, you probably suck, too — […]

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