INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Felix Rosenqvist won the 110th Running of the Indianapolis 500. Rosenqvist passed David Malukas on the final straightaway to win his first career Indianapolis 500.

After the narrow win, Rosenqvist described the out-of-body experience it was to win the Indianapolis 500 in front of over 350,000 people.

“I’m still not able to take it in,” Rosenqvist said. “I need another month or week. It’s been such a crazy month for me. That finish, man, I can’t get over that finish. It’s so unbelievable how close it was, I feel like any of the four of us could’ve won it. It just worked out perfectly.”

This year’s Indy 500 ended on a one-lap restart. The green flag waved on lap 199, and chaos ensued for the final 2.5-mile sprint.

Marcus Armstrong opened the final lap with the lead before David Malukas passed Armstrong coming out of Turn 1. As they headed to Turn 4, Rosenqvist made his move and passed Malukas on the final straight away to mark the closest finish in Indianapolis 500 history. Rosenqvist beat Malukas to the finish line by a mere 0.023 seconds.

Rosenqvist shared how much of a whirlwind the final lap was for him.

“That last lap, I just stayed flat on the outside, and I was like, at this point, I’m just going to go all in,” Rosenqvist said. “It just worked out, I had a little tow off with Dave in the last corner, and it’s enough to take me over the line. It was pretty gnarly. I’ve never tried it around here, but I did, and it worked for the whole lap. I just hung around the outside flat.”

Rosenqvist added more on how exhilarating the last lap felt.

“I think, honestly, if I replayed it a million times, it wouldn’t have ended up the same,” Rosenqvist said. “Everything was just 10 out of 10, and it’s no better feeling to win this race, like that, during a month where I had a baby sixteen days ago. Incredible.”

This year’s Indianapolis 500 had the most lead changes in the race’s 110-year history, with 70.

The Iowa State Cyclones had to undergo some major changes with their men’s basketball roster this offseason.

Four key rotation players from their incredible 2025-26 team, Tamin Lipsey, Joshua Jefferson, Milan Momcilovic and Nate Heise, won’t be back with the team. However, the Cyclones were able to successfully fill those voids on the roster with five players in the transfer portal and three players in their Class of 2026.

Other programs that have spent the offseason upgrading their rosters may not be as fortunate. The new NCAA eligibility requirements could significantly alter the outlook of many teams across the country, with a particular focus on international players.

After virtually everyone was granted eligibility to play in the 2025-26 season, rule changes came down in May that will impact several programs. Kevin Sweeney of Sports Illustrated named a few players who may no longer be eligible to participate in the 2026-27 season: Quinn Ellis (St. John’s Red Storm), Saliou Niang (LSU Tigers), Márcio Santos (LSU Tigers) and Mantas Rubštavičius (Auburn Tigers).

NCAA eligiblity rules will have major impact on men’s college basketball

Some Iowa State fans will see that and wonder how this could impact players on their team. Head coach T.J. Otzelberger has done a great job with international recruiting in recent years, unearthing gems such as Killyan Toure and Dominykas Pleta in the Class of 2026.

In the Class of 2026, one of Toure’s former teammates, big man Dorian Rinaldo-Komlan, committed to the Cyclones.

Luckily for Iowa State, none of those players are going to be impacted by the new eligibility rules and should maintain their ability to suit up for the Cyclones during the 2026-27 campaign.

Toure played high school basketball at Brewster Academy before coming to Ames. Rinaldo-Komlan is currently with SPIRE Academy. Pleta played in the Porsche Ludwigsburg, which has a professional-level team, but he was with the academy team, which is the equivalent of high school basketball.

Cyclones won’t be impacted by eligibility rule changes

While the rules about international players are constantly changing, all of the players who have come from overseas who are with Iowa State should remain eligible. The focus of the new rules is on players who have professional experience internationally and are older prospects.

That isn’t an area of recruiting that Otzelberger has had to turn to during his tenure with the Cyclones, and thankfully so. He has excelled in finding high school players and anyone in the transfer portal who fit into the game plan they are looking to execute with a focus on defensive intensity.

Iowa State can proceed as they have been, knowing they won’t be losing any players to eligibility concerns because of international professional experience.

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