How to watch New Hampshire at Iowa men’s basketball: Time/TV/game info (Dec. 30, 2024)

What: New Hampshire (2-12) at Iowa (9-3)

When/where: 6 p.m., Monday, Carver-Hawkeye Arena

TV: BTN (Jeff Levering/Jess Settles)

Livestream: Fox Sports Live

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates (Jon Swisher/Bob Hansen)

Series: First meeting

Line: Iowa by 33.5

Iowa’s next game: At Wisconsin, Friday at 6 p.m.

What to know: After the dust has settled from the Music City Bowl, there’s this. If this game turns out to be closer than Iowa-Missouri in Nashville, something has gone terribly weird in one or both of the games.

It’s Iowa’s final nonconference game, and it’s more of a mismatch than the last two socks at a laundromat’s closing time.

Hawkeyes Coach Fran McCaffery said Friday that his team is healthy. Which has been a rarity this season. Only five players have played in every game.

It means backup sophomore forward Seydou Traore, who missed the last two games with an ankle issue and has played in six games overall, is back.

“Seydou looked really good” at the team’s Thursday practice, McCaffery said.

New Hampshire, of the America East Conference, is winless against Division I opposition. Included among its conquerors are Fairfield, Sacred Heart, Marist and Stonehill.

Entering the weekend, the Wildcats were 355th out of the 364 teams in the NCAA’s NET rankings. Iowa was 49th. Iowa is sixth in the nation in assists-to-turnovers ratio. UNH is 324th.

The Wildcats’ average home attendance this season is 409.

Owen Freeman leads Iowa in scoring with 17.1 points per game, with Payton Sandfort right behind at 16.7. Entering the weekend, Brock Harding was third in the league in assists (6.0 per game) and tied for first in steals (2.3).

The Hawkeyes began the weekend eighth in the nation in scoring with 87.8 points per game.