page_title: Iowa State Cyclones
section_title: Men's basketball
hierarchical_section_title: Iowa State Cyclones / Sports sponsored / Men's sports / Men's basketball
caption_attribution_description: English: Iowa State Cyclones beat Kansas 72-64 01-28-12
context_page_description: The Iowa State Cyclones are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Iowa State University, located in Ames. The university is a member of the Big 12 Conference and competes in NCAA Division I, fielding 16 varsity teams in 12 sports.
  The "Cyclones" name dates back to 1895. That year, Iowa suffered an unusually high number of devastating cyclones. In September, the football team from what was then Iowa Agricultural College traveled to Northwestern University and defeated that team by a score of 36-0. The next day, the Chicago Tribune's headline read "Struck by a Cyclone: It Comes from Iowa and Devastates Evanston Town." The article began, "Northwestern might as well have tried to play football with an Iowa cyclone as with the Iowa team it met yesterday." The nickname stuck.
context_section_description: The Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team competes in the Big 12 Conference of NCAA Division I athletics.  Steve Prohm is the current ISU men's basketball head coach. Prior to the 2017-18 season, Iowa State has a 1339–1293 all-time record, and has been to the NCAA Tournament nineteen times including five Sweet 16 appearances, an Elite 8 appearance, and a Final Four appearance. ISU has also won six regular conference titles and six conference tournament titles. Iowa State men's basketball team plays in Hilton Coliseum, part of the Iowa State Center on the south-east side of Iowa State University, and is known as one of the best venues in all of college basketball.
caption: Hilton Coliseum
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