DAILY CLONE: Addy Brown & Others to the Portal, 3 Keys to Beating Tennessee, FB Pro Day (March 24, 2026)

A brutal day in the transfer portal for the Iowa State Women.

Why one cyclone football player stayed in three keys to beating Tennessee,

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a little bit later and I hate to follow up that ad of Whiskey River that's always a good time

with some bad news for cyclone fans as five cyclones have hit the transfer portal today.

Addy Brown the headliner Iowa State star forward has been the do-it-all player for this team

the last three years. An absolute star who battled injuries this year announces on social media

that she'll be moving on from Iowa State. The same goes for Reese Beatty,

a sixth man for Iowa State this year. Got some starts as the backup point guard

and showed a lot of promise. Certainly a player that would have had potential in this program

had she stuck around. Reagan Wilson, Lily Tololay, and Ily Tanky, all players who probably didn't

have a massive future as rotation players at Iowa State. None of those two shocking,

but it's the Addy Brown news that really, really hits home. She's a fan favorite

in one of the best players in school history and now Addy Brown leaves for another program most

likely having not personally underachieved but the team underachieved in her three years at Iowa State.

Just one tournament win over the first three years of the Brown and Crooks era and Iowa State's

coaching staff will have some questions they'll have some holes to plug and hopefully there's not

more to come, but that's why I waited so late to record this is we didn't know how much news

is going to come. It's about 8.30 right now. We'll continue to keep you updated. We've got a

transfer portal tracker on our front page at Cyclone fanatic to see what else could happen in the

transfer portal for the cyclones. Of course, eventually that portal will show who's coming into

Iowa State's program as well. They will have a team next year, but it's certainly appearing that

it's going to look different after an early exit to Syracuse in the first round of the NCAA

tournament. We had pro day today for Iowa State football. A lot of former cyclones are still

cyclones who are entering the NFL draft got to display their skills and we talked to a couple of

them Tyler Miller being one of them and he's been training in state college the past couple of

months. He actually got married. Miller could very well find himself in an NFL camp, but what I want

to talk about is Austin Barrett. We just talked about the women's basketball team and the Exodus

that they are having right now. It feels really similar to what the football team went through.

When Matt Campbell moved on to state college and Jimmy Rogers got hired, so many players entered

the transfer portal, felt like the entire roster did, but it wasn't the entire roster. Austin Barrett's

coming back and he explains his decision to stay names. I never ended the portal and that was

the best decision for me. I think I was looking for a fair chance for you know a fighting chance to

get playing time and secure a starting spot and earn something. I haven't had that in my career yet.

As far as having a starting spot, I never started getting my career, but I think by the other

coaches telling you the new coaching staff what kind of guy I am and how I work, they sold me

out not making me empty promises but telling me that I'll have a fighting chance at playing time

and whatever I want to go earn. That was a huge part of it because you can go look anywhere

you want nowadays. You don't have to be in the portal. You got ages. I don't have an agent. You

can have agents reach out to anybody and that's fine, but I know what Iowa State is and I love

the community of games and fans of games and it was easy to come back to this place. It's

a place of awesome. Barrett also talked a lot about the relationship building that's going on

through this team. Everybody knows everybody's name at this point according to one player that I

talked to and that's been good for Jimmy Rogers to see. Rogers talks more about the team building

process as they get started with the Spring Football on Thursday. Watching the players connect

with one another, watching them struggle together and then get better incrementally through what we

did with them through the strength and conditioning to when we ran into the gauntlet days, watching

that growth of players becoming a team, it got better and better and then you know we ended on

Spring Break and now they're back and just excited to get going. Some more good news for Iowa

State fans. April 25th will be Iowa State's Spring Showcase as they wrap up the Spring Football

season. Roger says it'll mostly be a practice. There could be some scrimmages mixed in there,

but it will be an opportunity for fans to get to see the Jimmy Rogers era on half display at

Jack Tray Stadium. That is April 25th. We'll get you up to date as that gets closer, but we're not

moving on to football just yet because the Iowa State Cyclones are two wins away from their first

final four since 1944, but in order to get to the final four, you got to get to the elite eight.

Iowa State has a tough matchup with Tennessee on Friday night at 910 on TBS in Chicago. I leave

tomorrow morning. We'll talk to the team at the hotel and then of course we'll talk to the team

on Thursday in the locker room and we'll get you up to speed on Tennessee. But right now I want

to focus on three keys for Iowa State to take on Tennessee. In number one, there's no doubt that

it is rebounding, rebounding, rebounding, rebounding. That is what's going on at practice right now

for Iowa State. Tennessee is the number one offensive rebounding team in the country. They rebound

25% of their misses. That is a high, high rate. And we know that Iowa State sometimes has struggled

with rebounding this year. Sometimes that comes down to a physicality standpoint. Sometimes it

comes down to an out of position problem. But either way, it's going to be a massive challenge

for Iowa State. Here's what I like about it though. Blake Buchanan has rose to the occasion time

and time again against these high level opponents. Houston and Hilton call Sam. I thought Buchanan was

great. Both games against Arizona. Buchanan was awesome. Floyd Badunga in town. Buchanan rose to

the occasion. Buchanan will have to rise to the occasion on Friday night because regardless of

the status of Joshua Jefferson, he could play. He could not play. He's probably not going to be 100%

and if he's down low at 70% at 75% going against a team the size of Kentucky will be really,

really hard. A lot is going to be asked to be Buchanan. A lot will be asked to be of play to those

guys have to stay at a foul trouble. And of course, get some help from Nate Heise, Killing Torrey,

Tame and Lipsy. Guys who are really good at crashing the boards. My other key, those guys I just

mentioned, lock down Jacobi Gillespie. Gillespie, when when he's rolling Tennessee is absolutely at

their best. When he struggles, they struggle. If Gillespie doesn't score 15 points, Tennessee is just

six and six this year. Gillespie, really efficient, but he can be prone to turning the ball over a

little bit. He's a smaller guy. Iowa State will be sending two at him a lot. Tame and Lipsy,

Killing Torrey, go make his life difficult. Go and do what you did to Kentucky. And while I think

Gillespie is better than those Kentucky guards, no doubt, Tennessee doesn't have a ton of guards.

So if Iowa State can take Gillespie out of the game, it is going to be really tough to get the ball

to Nate a meant who is a freshman who's no doubt really talented, but could maybe be fostered

a little bit by Iowa State's physicality. It comes down to the cyclones doing what they do best

and that is rattling the other team. Tennessee turns the ball over a lot. They were nearly last

in the SEC in turnover percentage. If Iowa State can force some turnovers, get out and run.

That makes Iowa State's life a lot easier in the half court, which brings me to my next key.

You got to hit some shots. They didn't shoot that well against Kentucky and still blew them out.

The recipe for Iowa State to lose at this point. I don't think it's them not playing hard

because I don't see that happening. We've now seen five games in a row.

Honestly, give me seven games in a row dating back to that game at Arizona into

Sun. When I was take up blown off the floor, I thought they competed the best they had all season.

That carried over into the second half on senior day and then it carried over into every single

minute in Kansas City and every single minute in St. Louis. As long as Iowa State continues to do

that, they will have a puncher's chance in all of these games. The only way they don't

as if you start another game like you did against Kentucky and don't get out of that rut.

Or if you shoot the way you did at Arizona, it's going to come down to Meal and Mum Chillovich

having a good day. You don't need an amazing day from them. Although you'd take it,

that would be the best way to punch your ticket to an elite eight. But you just need a good day

out of Meal and can you get you a four, five, six, three's? Can Bateman add something? He saw

a logo three go down at the end of that Kentucky game. Maybe that gives him the confidence he needs

after a rough first half and then Torrey, Tayman, Heisee. I think the number out of those guys

can they get you three threes. Just between between the three of them. You don't need

Tayman to have four. You don't need Heisee to have four. If those guys can get anywhere between

three and five threes between the three of them, Iowa State's offense and the half court will be

in a really good spot to potentially play Michigan or Alabama with the spot in the final four

on the line. Well, in Indianapolis, the cyclones will be playing in Chicago. We'll get you up

to speed with the daily clone on Wednesday. You won't want to miss it. We've got Williams and

Bloom coming your way Wednesday morning. Let him cook has a new episode out on Cyclone Phenatic

right now. We'll also have the beat reporters coming your way on Wednesday evening. Thank you

for tuning into the daily clone right here in the Northwest Bank Studios.