Iowa State followers have been identified to flock to Kansas Metropolis for nearly something. In a way, it’s their house away from house. They go there for the annual Huge 12 Convention basketball tournaments – like what’s taking place on the downtown T-Cell Middle in March. They go there for sporting occasions, concert events and different stuff, too, like skilled baseball, soccer, soccer and NASCAR.
I assure you they’ll stay as much as that fame on Nov. 9 – when what could possibly be an excellent Cyclones soccer crew faces what could possibly be an excellent Kansas outfit on the Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium.
What’s been circulating for months lastly is going on – Iowa State soccer is returning to Arrowhead.
That was the spotlight of the 2024 Huge 12 Convention regular-season schedule revealed Tuesday. Iowa State vs. Kansas at Arrowhead Stadium on Nov. 9.
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The one different revelation on the convention’s schedule reveal are dates of the eight different Huge 12 video games. The who and the the place among the many 16-team convention got here out in November, however to rehash some highlights:
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An Iowa State Huge 12 energy ranking of the 2024 schedule might go one thing like this:
That’s clearly only a fast guess. Trying on the convention in its 16-team entirety, you’ll be able to place Arizona on the identical line as Utah. Oklahoma State most likely matches between Kansas State and Kansas, and Iowa State goes someplace within the higher division.
As for the Cyclones’ general schedule – it will get actual attention-grabbing after the Oct. 26 bye, when the final 5 video games embody three at house – Texas Tech, Cincinnati and Kansas State, and highway journeys towards Kansas and Utah.
Whereas some might determine the Kansas recreation at Arrowhead might simply as effectively be a house recreation, resulting from how effectively Cyclones followers journey to highway video games – do not forget that Kansas is beginning to pack within the followers, too, below coach Lance Leipold.
That’s a purpose for the Arrowhead recreation. Memorial Stadium’s makeover is a part of a $300 million “Gateway Mission” that features enhancements at Allen Fieldhouse. The challenge is anticipated to be accomplished in 2025. This would be the fourth time Iowa State has performed on the Chiefs’ 76,000-seat stadium, the place the Cyclones have a 0-3 document − after losses towards Florida State within the 2002 Eddie Robinson Basic, and to Kansas State in 2009 and 2010. All three video games had been one-possession losses, which is not stunning for a program that lives in these close-game margins.
You’ll discover two bye weeks on the schedule. Properly, that’s the norm for all of school soccer in 2024. It’s simply the best way the calendar fell. Occasions and tv networks can be introduced later, so if you happen to’re planning to make the Kansas Metropolis highway journey – you now not less than know the sport’s date.
Iowa State columnist Randy Peterson is in his 52nd yr writing sports activities for the Des Moines Register. Attain him at rpeterson@dmreg.com, on X @RandyPete, and at DesMoinesRegister.com/CyclonesTexts
