US Serviceman Watches Son Georges Niang Play for ISU Cyclones

ISU Cyclones last men's basketball game at the Hilton Coliseum had a special visitor.

Sidy Niang came to Iowa to watch his son, Georges Niang, a recent Big 12 rookie of the week, play against West Virginia.

Sidy Niang told the Des Moines Register that he would be watching tonight's game against Texas Tech on television. The game airs on ESPNU and begins at 8 p.m.

Sidy Niang serves in the US Navy and had been stationed on the USNS Big Horn that's currently undergoing repairs in Dentyen's ShipYard in North Charleston, South Carolina.

“I watch on the ship when we’re out to sea,” Sidy Niang told the Register. He recently returned from a six-month deployment in the Gulf. “I watch cyclones.tv, I watch ESPNU – anything where Georges is playing, I try to find it on television.”