Florida A&M vs. Iowa men’s basketball glance: Time, TV, live stream (Dec. 16, 2023)

What: Florida A&M (2-5) vs. Iowa (5-5), men’s basketball

When/where: 3:37 p.m. (CT) Saturday, Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines

TV: BTN (Jake Eisenberg, Jess Settles)

Live stream: FoxSports.com or Fox Sports app

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network

Series: First meeting

What to know:

Iowa seems likely to snap its 3-game losing streak consisting of double-digit defeats to Purdue, Iowa State and Michigan.

Win or lose, none of Iowa’s games have been decided by less than eight points.

Florida A&M is a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Iowa is 18-0 all-time against current SWAC teams.

The Rattlers of Tallahassee have won their last two games, 65-60 over Presbyterian and 108-78 over the LeMoyne-Owen Magicians. They started the season 0-5, including losses of 105-54 at Creighton and 81-54 at Nebraska.

The attendance for the LeMoyne-Owen game at FAMU was 158.

FAMU hasn’t had a winning season since 2006-07. It was 7-22 last year. Its football team takes a 10-game winning streak into Saturday’s Celebration Bowl against Howard.

The Rattlers’ leading scorer is 5-foot-11 guard Love Bettis (15.3 ppg), who came to FAMU by way of Coffeyville Community College and North Carolina A&T.

FAMU has one starter taller than 6-5.

This game is the undercard to the Cleveland State-Iowa women’s game that follows at 6 p.m. The event is sold out.