Sunday, November 5th, 2017

Today marks the start of another Iowa State Cyclone basketball season!  I was able to take Maxwell along with me to watch Iowa State's exhibition victory vs. the Emporia State Hornets, 77-68. 

The game today was much closer than I would have liked, considering Emporia State is a division 2 school.  It was understandable though that Iowa State would have some growing pains considering all of the talent that graduated from the team last year (Morris, Thomas, Burton, Long).  Iowa State was also without two players today due to a disciplinary reason of some sorts... Lard and Lewis both sat out today's game. 

Donovan Jackson was the player of the game for Iowa State, as he led the team with 20 points and connected on 4-of-7 from three point range.  Lindell Wigginton also had a nice game for the Cyclones in his first action at Hilton Coliseum as he added 18 points, 5 rebounds, and 4 steals.  Although he is a freshman, I am hoping for big things from him this year if the Cyclones are going to be successful.  Jackson and Wigginton were joined in double-figures scoring for Iowa State by Nick Weiler-Babb (12) and Jakolby Long (11). 

This is the fourth time that I have taken Maxwell to an ISU basketball game.  The others were last season vs. The Citadel, vs. TCU, and vs. Baylor. 

The last exhibition game that I attended was against Grand Valley State back in 2015.  I have also seen exhibitions vs. Viterbo in 2014 and vs. Minnesota State in 2012. 

Maxwell was all smiles for the game :)

A view of the game action from our seats in section 216.

This past weekend I also drove Nolan up to grandpa Eben's place with the idea that we would help him combine some corn.  Saturday ended up being a fairly wet and foggy day, so we did not get much combining done at all.  We did try a little in the afternoon, but after a couple of passes through the field we had to stop because the corn was still too wet.  At least Nolan was able to ride in the combine for a bit.  We also helped Eben feed some hay to cattle in the pasture and around the farm, which Nolan thought was pretty neat. 

Nolan posing on the combine.