Iowa State Basketball Has Drive to Beat UConn Without Georges Niang

Sports Moment. College Basketball · March Madness 2014: NCAA Tournament Coverage 3 Iowa State 85, No. 6 North Carolina 83. It didn't quite top the instant-classic between Wichita State and Kentucky, but this game may have been the second-best of the Big Dance to this point. The score went back and forth for 40 minutes, though it was DeAndre Kane's game-winning layup with 1.6 seconds on the clock that proved to be the difference. The Cyclones trailed 

SAN ANTONIO — Third-seeded Iowa State will be without third-leading scorer and starter Georges Niang the rest of the NCAA tournament after he fractured a bone in his right foot during its second-round win Friday night.

John Crawford, Iowa State's first African-American basketball player, died over the weekend, the university said Monday. He was 77. Crawford, then a sophomore, teamed with Cyclone all-American Gary Thompson to lead Iowa State to 18 wins in the 1955-56 

We had 39 minutes and 58 seconds of awesome basketball between Iowa State and UNC, culminating with a decisive DeAndre Kane bucket. The last two seconds probably didn't matter, but we need to talk about how weird 

For any college basketball team, a player like Georges Niang cannot simply be replaced. He was the third-leading scorer for the Iowa State basketball team this year and his presence was greatly missed during the Cyclones' Round of 32 nail-biting