Angie Welle, from Fargo, N.D., and Megan Taylor of Roseau, Minn., have helped turn Iowa State around.
Drivers seem to be doing a nice job of missing each other.
Both times, this was the '80s station out of Des Moines, which gives us our touch of irony going into Saturday's Big 12 title game between Iowa State and Oklahoma here in K.C. Back when those '80s songs were actually contemporary and I was a college yahoo covering Big Eight women's hoops for whomever might be willing to print a story, I never went to Ames. It was the only Big Eight city never visited in my teeth-cutting days. It was the only program that never made it to the Big Eight tournament title game. The Cyclones' one good season was 1985-86, and the night that I picked to finally go see them, it snowed and the trip was bagged. Figured it was fate.