South Dakota-Iowa men’s basketball glance: Time/TV/game info. (Nov. 12, 2024)

What: South Dakota (3-0) at Iowa (2-0), men’s basketball

When/where: 8 p.m., Thursday, Carver-Hawkeye Arena

TV: BTN (Kevin Kugler, Jess Settles)

Livestream: Fox Sports Live

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates, KRUI-FM

Series: Iowa leads, 12-0.

Line: Iowa by 20.5

Kenpom.com ratings (as of Monday afternoon): Iowa 42nd, South Dakota 242nd

Next game: vs. Washington State Friday in Moline, Ill., 7:30 p.m.

What to know: It’s Iowa’s first televised game of the season, and it’s against a South Dakota team that has defeated the same two teams Iowa has beaten, Texas A&M-Commerce and Southern University.

The Coyotes’ average winning margin against those two foes was 11 points, while Iowa’s was 18.5.

Both teams have brothers who are key players. South Dakota’s Isaac and Paul Bruns average 12.0 and 10.7 points, respectively. Iowa’s Payton and Pryce Sandfort are Iowa’s top two scorers with 18.5 and 17.5 points per game, respectively. Both sets of brothers are a senior and a sophomore.

Among all forwards in the nation, Payton Sandfort ranks second in assists with 7.0 per game.

Cameron Fens, a 7-foot transfer from Illinois-Chicago, is a junior from Dubuque who averages 9.7 points. He was a first-team all-state player at Hempstead High.

Entering Monday’s games, Iowa was tied for sixth in the nation in 3-pointers per game with 14.0.

The Hawkeyes have five players averaging at least 11 points per game. Besides the Sandforts, Owen Freeman is at 15 ppg, Josh Dix is at 12.0, and Drew Thelwell is at 11.0.

Iowa’s Brock Harding has 12 assists and just one turnover.

The Hawkeyes’ first two opponents combined to make just 8 of 21 free throws.

South Dakota has players in its rotation who transferred from Louisiana Tech, Northwestern (La.) State, Illinois-Chicago, Niagara, Oral Roberts and North Dakota.