The Iowa State basketball program announced its non-conference schedule for the 2025-26 season on May 22.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/iowa-state as Iowa State Cyclones Basketball Has Had Elite Trio Emerge Early On . The Iowa State Cyclones have started up their basketball season, and there is a lot to like early on for the 16th-ranked team in the nation.

Cyclones focused on themselves against Mississippi State, coached by Fairbank native and former Kirkwood coach Chris Jans

Iowa State men's basketball center Blake Buchanan had one of the best post performances T.J. Otzelberger has seen during his Cyclones coaching tenure.

The Iowa State Cyclones have gotten off to a dominant 2-0 start in the 2025-26 men’s college basketball season. That was the expectation, hosting two buy games

Iowa State men’s basketball point guard Tamin Lipsey’s knee injury continues to heal on schedule to be able to play the Cyclones’ season-opener.

Iowa State, with its senior point guard out with a knee injury, did not play its preseason exhibition game Sunday against Northwestern – an 80-72 win – under the best of circumstances, but, still, the glimpses, kernels and ideas still revealed themselves.