Iowa Condition travels to Kansas Saturday | College athletics
AMES — Iowa Point out men’s basketball coach Steve Prohm was viewing the Texas, Texas Tech game on Wednesday.
His possess recreation from Kansas Condition was postponed owing to COVID-19 complications with Kansas State.
Prohm had 1 imagined although watching the Longhorns and Red Raiders entertain all all those who watched, “We have to get back there. We have to get again to that stage.”
No. 15 Texas Tech upset No. 4 Texas thanks to some late-match heroics by Mac McClung.
Iowa State’s previous two game titles have been towards Texas and Texas Tech — the Cyclones dropped both equally.
In actuality, Iowa Condition has experienced a single of the hardest stretches in university basketball to open up up conference play. Following a meeting opening decline to Kansas State, Iowa State lossed to then-No. 8 West Virginia, No. 2 Baylor, No. 4 Texas and No. 15 Texas Tech.
Iowa Condition is -5 to get started convention for the initially time since the 2004-05 time.
Soon after the postponed Kansas Condition match, Iowa Point out proceeds its gauntlet in opposition to No. 6 Kansas on Saturday in Lawrence, Kansas.
Who requirements to phase up for Iowa Point out to at last notch its initially convention acquire?
“Everybody. We all do,” Prohm reported. “Everybody from Steve Prohm to (wander on) Nate Jenkins. We all do. We have to raise our amount, we have to take care of the ball improved, we have to contend on the defensive finish improved. We have performed that at occasions but we have to be much more consistent with it.