As the minutes continue to pile up on Monte Morris, his aches and pains melt away.
Wait. What?
“I don’t know how,” he told the Ames Tribune. “It’s strange.”
It certainly is, but it’s a godsend for the Iowa State men’s basketball team, with its thin bench and no backup point guard. If not for Morris’ uncanny ability to play and play and then play some more without fatiguing or feeling the cumulative effect of so many minutes, the 17th-ranked Cyclones (12-4, 1-3 Big 12) might find themselves worse off than they already are with their 1-3 start to Big 12 play.