Iowa State Cyclones NCAA Basketball News

Next week is the biggest week of the year for college basketball, but for some of the biggest college basketball fans conference tournament weekend is the best time of the year.

TV: First round - Big 12 Network & ESPN3, Quarterfinals - Big 12 Network & ESPN2 or ESPN3 Semifinals - Big 12 Network & ESPNU or ESPN3 Championship Game - ESPN Andrew Wiggins - For the 10th consecutive season, the Kansas Jayhawks have won at least a share of the Big XII regular season title.

Testimony in Kyle Flack’s preliminary hearing ended Wednesday when a Franklin County judge ordered him to stand trial in the shotgun murders of four people last spring at a farmhouse outside Ottawa.

Freshman Marcus Foster continued to add to his list of accomplishments on Wednesday, as he was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-District 8 Second Team.

Jesse catches up with Iowa State star and Pittsburgh native DeAndre Kane on their way to the Big 12 Tournament.

That's the plan for No. 16 Iowa State, which hopes a tougher than usual non-conference schedule coupled with playing in the highest RPI-rated conference in the country leads to wide-ranging success beginning Thursday in Kansas City and beyond.

Marshall's youth has been served, as Kareem Canty and Ryan Taylor were named to Conference USA's All-Freshman Team.

The Big 12 has been arguably the toughest conference in college basketball throughout the year thanks to its overall depth to give teams a serious battle almost every game.

The last time the Oklahoma Sooners made it to the March Madness basketball tournament, Blake Griffin played for the team.

The Big 12 regular season was full of tight games and great matchups and Marcus Foster is expecting more great games in the Big 12 Tournament which begins Wednesday in Kansas City.

It's been 13 years since it happened, yet people in Iowa still fondly recall the Hawkeyes' four-day, four-win march across the Big Ten tourney field in Chicago.

Kansas coach Bill Self was chatting this week with someone who brought up the possibility that some unfortunate team with a No.

He slept through the momentous Twitter announcement- thanks to an ultra-early Sunday wake-up call to send off visiting family and friends.

Marshall, 51, has led WSU to a 34-0 record and the most wins of any team ever to enter the NCAA Tournament.

We haven't bid farewell to Melvin Ejim, DeAndre Kane & Co. just yet, but who should Iowa State fans expect to fill the void in 2014-15? To say "only" is to imply that Iowa State may perhaps be in the midst of a struggle on the recruiting front.

Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart draws a foul on Iowa State forward Melvin Ejim as he drives to the basket during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Ames, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 2014.

Oklahoma State's basketball season has been revived. Not even the loss Saturday at Iowa State squelches momentum much.

An autopsy Monday confirmed suicide was the cause of death for 48-year-old Blaine A. Tucker of Leawood, whose body was found Sunday outside the Park Place shopping center in the 11600 block of Ash Street.

If I could only watch one conference tournament this season, it would be the Big 12. That's what happens when, barring an upset, all eight teams in the quarterfinals have a chance at playing their way into the Big Dance.

WVU Photo/Dale SparksWVU junior guard Juwan Staten was voted to the All-Big 12 First Team and the league's all-defensive team.