After a bruising, possession-by-possession battle for Iowa bragging rights ended in a 66–62 Iowa State win, the most revealing moment came not during the final free throws, but at the podium. Cyclones head coach TJ Otzelberger used his postgame availability to publicly acknowledge the work being done across the aisle by Iowa head coach Ben McCollum.

Coming out fresh from a hard-fought victory, Cyclones head coach TJ Otzelberger addressed the press right after and, in a very sportsmanlike gesture, gave due props to his state rivals and their Coach, Ben McCollum. “They’ve got a good team, a good program way of doing things that there’s a lot of guys you can that they trust their coach, they’ve been with him for a number of years and that comes out with how they play and the decisions they m

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