Iowa vs. Maryland men’s basketball glance: Time/TV/game info (Dec. 6, 2025)

What: Iowa (7-1) vs. Maryland (6-3), men’s basketball

When/where: Saturday, 3 p.m., Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City

TV: FS1 (Connor Onion, Steve Prohm)

Livestream: FS1 Livstream

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

Series: Maryland leads 10-8

Iowa’s next game: Thursday, Dec. 10, vs. Iowa State at Ames, 7 p.m. (FS1)

What to know: This is the first Big Ten Conference game for Maryland, the second for Iowa. The Hawkeyes lost Tuesday night at Michigan State, 71-52.

Iowa shot just 37.8 percent from the field in the game and was outrebounded by a whopping margin of 37-18. Bennett Stirtz was the only Hawkeyes player to score in double figures with 14 points, though he went just 4 of 10 from the field.

Maryland also last played Tuesday night, beating Wagner at home, 89-63. The Terrapins’ three losses this season have come to Georgetown (70-60), No. 12 Gonzaga (100-61) and No. 8 Alabama (105-72).

Point guard Stirtz leads Iowa in scoring by Stirtz at 18.0 points per game. He also averages a team-best 5.3 assists.

He is the only Hawkeye to average double figures in scoring.

Maryland, under first-year head coach Buzz Williams, is led in scoring by 6-foot-9 junior forward-center Pharrel Payne. The Twin Cities native averages 18.9 points and 6.8 rebounds.