On September 30, 2015, Travis Hines seemingly dropped a bombshell article that claimed from multiple sources that “the day after claiming the Diamond Head Classic championship in Hawaii in December 2013, the Iowa State men’s basketball team used luggage as beds and pillows in a hotel ballroom.”
According to this Iowa State Daily article by Ryan Young and Max Dible, Pollard had the following question for Hines: “So if Fred Hoiberg told you three weeks ago it wasn’t true, doesn’t it make you kind of scratch your head and say, ‘Gosh, what’s the motive to all this?