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Hello and welcome into the Northwest Bank Studios for the Daily Clone here on a Thursday, the final daily clone of the byweek.

If you were to pull the Iowa State fan base on who the biggest fan favorites are, I'd be willing to bet money that the biggest fan favorite in football is Rocco Beckton and men's basketball.

It's Tame and Lipsy.

Well, those two have a lot more in common

than you think. Here's the full story. What if I told you that Rocco Beckton and Tameen

Lipsy had more in common than just the number three? Rocco and Taman share a class. Com

studies 3250. That's nonverbal communications. The two sit right next to each other.

I think it's an easy relationship that you can have because like I said, we're in the same

position, just in different sports and you have a lot of stuff going on around you where it's easy

to just talk to somebody who's going through the same thing and have those easy conversations with

one another. These two guys are responsible for leading

top 15 teams to big time goals. But at the end of the day, they're still just normal guys.

I mean, I'm out here watching all his games and I'm sure he watches some of our games as well.

So it's super cool. I mean, we're normal people at the end of the day. Obviously, like you said,

people forget that we're students sometimes and got to go to class. But just showing that,

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