Iowa State men's basketball had its four-game winning streak broken up by a challenging opponent in Big 12-leading Houston. The task became even more difficult when the Cyclones were forced to play the Cougars without two of their leading scorers, Curtis Jones (illness) and Keshon Gilbert (muscle strain).

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No. 3 UCLA hits the road to play Iowa today at 2 p.m. ET at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. This is the first time the pair is officially meeting since the Bruins joined the Big Ten conference in August 2024. The two teams last met when they played a neutral-site game in 2016 at the Cancun Challenge,