Several Iowa names show in NBA Draft

Former ISU player Chris Alexander is among the pool of players eligible for Thursday’s NBA Draft in New York.

Alexander, a 7—1 center who came to Iowa State in 2002 from Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa, averaged 7.7 points in nine games for the Cyclones last season.

He said he left to be with his family. He missed several games to be with his ill child while he was with the team.

Alexander’s best game came Dec. 31 against Arkansas-Pine Bluff, when he scored 25 points in a 90—46 Cyclone win.

Former Kansas players Kirk Hinrich, a Sioux City native, and Nick Collison, an Iowa Falls native, are both expected to be lottery picks in the draft.

Pella native Kyle Korver, who played college basketball at Creighton, is also in the draft pool.

— Lucas Grundmeier

Men’s basketball salaries released

Salaries for Iowa State’s assistant men’s basketball coaches have been set, ISU athletics officials said.

The three senior assistant coaches — holdover Bob Sundvold and new arrivals Fred Quartlebaum and Damon Archibald — will each be paid $95,000.

New director of basketball operations Darryl Sharp will earn $50,000.

Student assistant Jeff Grayer, a former Cyclone star in the 1980s who left Iowa State early to enter the NBA Draft, will earn tuition money similar to a scholarship. He also earns income from working at basketball camps.

Minor details of head coach Wayne Morgan’s contract are still being worked out, officials said Wednesday.

ISU athletics director Bruce Van De Velde said June 18 that Morgan will earn about $500,000 in the first year of his four-year contract. Raises and incentives for various achievements are built into the contract, he said.

Morgan was hired as head coach May 14. He was an assistant last season.

— Lucas Grundmeier