Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball
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| University | Iowa State University | ||
| First season | 1908 | ||
| All-time record | 1339–1293 (.509) | ||
| Conference | Big 12 | ||
| Location | Ames, IA | ||
| Head coach | Steve Prohm (2nd year) | ||
| Arena |
Hilton Coliseum (Capacity: 14,384) |
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| Nickname | Cyclones | ||
| Student section | Cyclone Alley | ||
| Colors | Cardinal and Gold |
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| NCAA Tournament Final Four | |||
| 1944 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Elite Eight | |||
| 1944, 2000 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen | |||
| 1986, 1997, 2000, 2014, 2016 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Round of 32 | |||
| 1986, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 | |||
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |||
| 1944, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 | |||
| Conference tournament champions | |||
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Big Eight 2000, 2014, 2015, 2017 |
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| Conference regular season champions | |||
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Big Eight 2000, 2001 |
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Big Eight
1996
Big Eight
1935, 1941, 1944, 1945
The Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team represents Iowa State University (ISU) and competes in the Big 12 Conference of NCAA Division I. The team is coached by Steve Prohm, he is in his 2nd year at Iowa State. The Cyclones play their home games at Hilton Coliseum on Iowa State's campus.
From 1907 to 1928, the Cyclones played in the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, managing a few winning records in-conference but no championships. In 1929, the Cyclones moved to the Big Six Conference and named Louis Menze as head coach. Over the next 19 years, Menze would lead the Cyclones to four conference championships (their only seasons with a winning conference record in this period). Two of these teams earned consideration for the then eight-team NCAA Tournament; the 1941 squad lost in a pre-Tournament "qualifying game" to Creighton. Three years later, the 1944 team beat Pepperdine to reach the semifinals in the tournament proper before losing its next game against eventual champion Utah, good for a spot in history as a Final Four participant.
After Menze's last conference win in 1945 and subsequent resignation as coach in 1947 (he would remain Iowa State's athletic director until 1958, having taken the position in 1945), the Cyclones floated between the bottom and the middle of the conference for decades, their main claim to fame being two wins of the conference's annual "Holiday Tournament", played between Christmas and New Year's Day in Kansas City, in 1955 and 1959. Neither these tournament wins, nor their regular season performances, qualified the Cyclones for postseason play in the 33 years between Menze's and Johnny Orr's stints in the head coaching position. However, the 1957 Cyclones were ranked #3 in the nation after handing Wilt Chamberlain's #1 Kansas its first loss. Gary Thompson outscored Chamberlain, while Don Medsker held Chamberlain to a career low in scoring and then hit the game winner at the buzzer. No. 3 remains the school's highest-ever national ranking. From the introduction of the Big Eight's postseason tournament in 1977 until Johnny Orr's fifth season in 1985, the Cyclones did not advance past their first game.
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