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The Iowa State basketball team faces a daunting schedule in February 2026.

The Cyclones will play eight games in the month, many against top-ranked Big 12 opponents.

The difficult schedule reflects the strength of the Big 12 conference and Iowa State's relevance in college basketball.

There are crucibles, like the Salem Witch Trials, the Red Scare or the temptation to break Midwestern manners and have that last slice of pizza out of the box.

Then there’s the February the Big 12 just assigned Iowa State men’s basketball .

I’m not entirely sure where that month would fit on the spectrum between 17th-century homicidal hysteria and the sting of judgmental (and still slightly hungry) eyes cast in your direction, but I’d like a lawyer if I were the Cyclones .

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