Articles Tagged: Ben Jacobson

Northern Iowa senior center Austin Phyfe is still having issues with long COVID and may be done with basketball.

In the first league-wide news conference since the additions of Belmont, Illinois-Chicago and Murray State became official on July 1 and the Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball coaches showered unanimous praise on second-year commissioner Jeff Jackson.

UNI men’s basketball won 15 of 19 down the stretch, captured the MVC regular-season title and is getting ready for an NIT bid.

MVC Coach of the Year Ben Jacobson still wants to see improvement on defense from his UNI men’s basketball team that enters the conference tournament this week as the No. 1 seed.

UNI men’s basketball plays at Valparaiso Wednesday looking for its sixth straight Missouri Valley Conference win.

UNI Coach Ben Jacobson said his team was outplayed by a short-handed Indiana State team, but the Panthers rallied to win in overtime.

UNI men’s basketball got 32 points from bench players and shot 54 percent from the field in an MVC home-opening win over Evansville.

A number of things have contributed to a poor start for UNI men’s basketball. What’s most consistently shown up are defensive mistakes.

A tough non-conference men’s basketball schedule took its second bite out of UNI with a 71-57 loss to Vermont.

UNI’s season-opener against Nicholls State fell flat as the Panthers shot 30 percent in a 62-58 loss.

With one of its deepest rosters in half a decade, UNI men’s basketball coach Ben Jacobson made team camaraderie a focal point of his message during Wednesday’s media day.

AJ Green was named MVC men’s basketball preseason player of the year, while UNI was picked third in the preseason poll.

UNI men’s basketball notes: Jacobson’s thoughts on NIL, AJ Green’s recovery from surgery

AJ Green doing individual drills, and is 4 to 6 weeks away from being cleared

He’s now a full assistant, replacing Kyle Green