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Iowa State women’s basketball: Addy Brown’s career night lifts Cyclones over Arizona State

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March 6, 2025

Iowa State women’s basketball: Addy Brown’s career night lifts Cyclones over Arizona State

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – As Iowa State sophomore Addy Brown sank the second of her two free throws with 47.8 seconds remaining in Thursday’s game with Arizona State, a big round of applause rang out around the T-Mobile Center.

The buckets were the finishing touches on a memorable night for the Iowa State women’s basketball star.

Brown finished with a career-high 41 points as Iowa State beat Arizona State 96-88 in the second round of the Big 12 Conference Tournament.

The Cyclones advanced to Friday’s 5:30 p.m. quarterfinal against No. 18 Baylor, and Brown was the primary reason.

The versatile forward broke Iowa State’s single-game record for points in a Big 12 Tournament game, passing Ashley Joens’ mark of 33 set in 2022 against Texas.

Brown came within a point of Iowa State’s single-game mark of 42 points set by Tonya Burns in 1984. She did plenty to help the Cyclones win their third straight game and move on.

It was apparent early on that Brown was on her way to a huge day. Brown connected on five of her first eight shots from the field and had 13 points. She hit back-to-back 3-pointers as part of a 9-0 run that gave Iowa State a 15-11 lead. She was just getting started.

Brown tallied 11 more points in the second quarter and had 24 of Iowa State’s 45 first-half points. The Cyclones, who led by 11 at halftime, got even more from Brown in the second half. She had eight points in a 10-0 run that pushed Iowa State’s lead to 60-40 during the third quarter. The final basket in that run, a layup and made free throw by Brown, gave her a new career-high with 4:43 left.

Brown checked out of the game with 32.2 seconds remaining.

Tommy Birch, the Register’s sports enterprise and features reporter, has been working at the newspaper since 2008. He’s the 2018, 2020 and 2023 Iowa Sportswriter of the Year. Reach him at tbirch@dmreg.com or 515-284-8468

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Pat McAfee praises Audi Crooks, plays hype song for Iowa State star

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January 6, 2026

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Pat McAfee praises Audi Crooks, plays hype song for Iowa State star

Audi Crooks and Iowa State women’s basketball are officially sweeping the nation.

On Tuesday’s edition of “The Pat McAfee Show” on ESPN, the Cyclones’ star and NCAA women’s basketball scoring leader garnered significant praise from the former-NFL-punter-turned-media-personality.

“I’m a huge fan of the way she operates. Huge fan,” McAfee said. “She just gets buckets. That’s literally all she does.

“Did I know anything about Iowa State’s women’s basketball team ever? Nope. But Audi Crooks highlights pop up on my (algorithm), and I say, ‘Boys, immediately, I’m making a song, we’re making a highlight,’ because people are trying to take shots at Audi right now.”

The song and video McAfee referenced was posted on his social media and played on his show before his monologue about Crooks. It features a stylish edit of Crooks points accompanied by what appears to be an AI-generated song with the chorus of, “You’re about to get cooked, by Audi Crooks.”

The “shots” at Crooks that McAfee mentioned refer to a TikTok posted by ESPN with the caption, “Baylor exposed Audi Crooks on defense,” which came in ISU’s first loss of the season on Jan. 4.

Audi Crooks stats

2025-26 season (14 games): 29.1 points (NCAA leader), 6.7 rebounds, 71% shooting
2024-25 season: 23.4 points, 7.5 rebounds, 60.5% shooting
2023-24 season: 19.2 points, 7.8 rebounds, 57.7% shooting

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Iowa women’s basketball, Chit-Chat Wright sick, Kylie Feuerbach update

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January 6, 2026

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Iowa women’s basketball, Chit-Chat Wright sick, Kylie Feuerbach update

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Iowa women’s basketball was lacking some of its vocal leadership on Monday at Northwestern.

Part of that was the fact that Hawkeyes senior Kylie Feuerbach is still sidelined with an ankle injury. Another part was the fact that Chit-Chat Wright was not feeling great.

“No excuse, but Chat’s really sick,” Iowa coach Jan Jensen said after the Hawkeyes’ 67-58 victory. “She didn’t have the flu game like (Michael) Jordan. But she’s really sick, like fever. And I think that just threw her. She was really not vocal tonight. So we were kinda searching, because Chat had been coming (as a leader).”

Wright fought through it and played 34 minutes, scoring 12 points and dishing out seven assists.

Jensen confirmed that Feuerbach remains day-to-day. She hasn’t played since getting hurt Dec. 20 vs. UConn.

“I think (our leadership tonight) was by committee,” Jensen said. “It just wasn’t the same person every time. … It’ll be nice to get Kylie back in that lineup.”

Feuerbach, the team’s best perimeter defender, has missed Iowa’s last three games. Jensen said she is pleased overall with how her team has played defensively in Feuerbach’s absence.

“(Against Northwestern) it was more an ‘us’ problem offensively,” Jensen said. “Our defense held. … We turned the ball over 20 times.”

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Two killed in Dubuque after bar fight escalates into police shooting

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January 5, 2026

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Two killed in Dubuque after bar fight escalates into police shooting

Two people are dead after a Dubuque bar fight escalated, with one man shooting another and then being killed by police.

An officer with the Dubuque Police Department was outside the Odd Fellows bar just before 1 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 4, when he witnessed a physical altercation, according to a news release from the Dubuque Police Department.

As the officer exited the patrol vehicle, an adult man allegedly used a handgun to shoot one of the people involved in the fight. The officer fired at the offender, who then ran into the bar.

The victim who was shot first was provided medical treatment by officers at the scene and then transported to MercyOne Hospital in Dubuque.

The offender was treated by police officers inside the bar and then transported to UnityPoint Finley Hospital.

Both were later pronounced dead.

The names of those involved are not being released at this time pending notification of family members.

The incident is being investigated by the Dubuque Police Department and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. The officer involved was not injured and has been placed on critical incident leave in accordance with the department’s policies.

Nick El Hajj is a reporter at the Register. He can be reached at nelhajj@gannett.com. Follow him on X at @nick_el_hajj.

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