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Cyclone Trio Named to CSC Academic All-District First Team
03.24.2026 | Men's Basketball
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State redshirt senior Nate Heise, senior Tamin Lipsey and junior Blake Buchanan have been named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District team, the organization announced Tuesday morning.
The award recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. Student-athletes must have a 3.5 cumulative GPA and the proper athletic accomplishments to make the ballot. Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced April 14.
Heise and Lipsey are earning the award for the third-straight year, while it is the first time Buchanan has been named to the team. Lipsey is also a two-time CSC Academic All-American, earning first team honors in 2025 and second team honors in 2024.
Lipsey has averaged 13.3 points, 5.1 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game in 33 games this year for the Cyclones. The Big 12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Lipsey has been putting up numbers for years. In his career, he's averaging 10.8 points, 4.3 assists, 3.8 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game. He is one of three players since 1947-48 to average those numbers in a career while playing at least 135 games. He is one of just two from a Power Conference to do so. His 313 career steals are the most in program history and the third-most in Big 12 history.
Heise has appeared in all 36 games, starting four of them. He is averaging 5.4 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.7 assists while shooting 45.6 percent from the field and 33.3 percent from 3-point range. Heise has come up big for the Cyclones down the stretch, as he scored an Iowa State career-high 22 points against Tennessee State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament before following It up with 12 points and three assists in a win over Kentucky to advance to the Sweet 16.
Buchanan has started 35 of the 36 games he has appeared in, averaging 8.5 points, 5.8 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 0.9 blocked shots and 0.8 steals per game. Only three other Cyclones have averaged those numbers in a season going back to 1996-97 and none since Deonte Burton in 2016-17.
No. 6 Iowa State faces No. 23 Tennessee Friday night in the Sweet 16 of the 2026 NCAA Tournament. Tipoff is scheduled for 9:10 p.m. from the United Center in Chicago. The game will air on TBS.
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