I have nothing against Iowa State, but let's be real. ISU was probably under membership review or about to be. We don't know for certain because that information isn't public.
Regardless, based on ISU's very public criticisms of the AAU's membership criteria, it seems likely that university leaders minimally saw the proverbial writing on the wall and chose to exit voluntarily early like Syracuse rather than be expelled later like Nebraska.
I also have nothing against the the University of Cincinnati. But there are a LOT of non-AAU schools that have far better research and academic profiles.
Anyway, this is a key tweet thread so I will post nothing else off topic.