Iowa State basketball guard Tamin Lipsey injury update, day-to-day

AMES — It’s been over a week since Tamin Lipsey was tended to on the court during the closing minutes of Iowa State basketball’s 83-82 victory over St. John’s on Nov. 24.

Since then, Lipsey has shown positive signs of progress, according to Cyclones’ coach T.J. Otzelberger, but he remains day-to-day. Otzelberger gave the latest on the standout senior guard on Tuesday, Dec. 2.

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“He’s continued to progress every single day,” Otzelberger said. “We just finished practice. He’s going to do some additional evaluations with our medical staff this afternoon. He’s trending in a good direction. I don’t know exactly what that means. I don’t want him to feel any pressure to need to play or feel like he has to play. I want to be (that) when he feels great, he returns, so we’ll just stay on day-to-day.

“It literally can be any day. It’s more really just how he feels and that he has all the burst, all the explosiveness that we saw him playing with at the start of the year. I want him to be fully healthy before he steps back out, but progress has been great.”

Through the first five games this season, Lipsey had been averaging 18.4 points, 3.6 rebounds, 5.2 assists and 3.2 steals per game, while shooting 50.7% on the floor.

He missed the remainder of the Cyclones’ games at the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas. They dispatched Creighton and Syracuse by double-digit margins of victory in his absence.

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Iowa State returns to action against Alcorn State at home on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. CT.

However, it has big games on the horizon, starting with a road trip to No. 1 Purdue on Saturday, Dec. 6, followed by the Cy-Hawk game against Iowa at Hilton Coliseum on Thursday, Dec. 11.

Despite the high-profile matchups on the horizon, Otzelberger wants to reiterate that there is no pressure for him to return. Given Lipsey’s injury history, they’d rather play it safe.

Before the 2025-26 season tipped off, Lipsey was sidelined with an MCL injury that kept him out of action for six…

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