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Indiana-Iowa men’s basketball glance: Time/TV/game info (Jan. 11, 2025)
Hawkeyes face an Indiana team on a 5-game winning streak including three Big Ten victories
Jan. 10, 2025 11:04 am, Updated: Jan. 11, 2025 12:24 pm
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What: Indiana (4-1 Big Ten, 13-3 overall) at Iowa (2-2, 11-4)
When/where: 7:05 p.m., Saturday, Carver-Hawkeye Arena
TV: Fox (Cory Provus, LaPhonso Ellis)
Livestream: Fox Sports Live
Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates
Series: Indiana leads, 107-82
Line: Iowa by 5.5
Iowa’s next game: at USC Tuesday at 9:30 p.m., CT.
What to know: Iowa is coming off a 97-87 overtime home win over Nebraska Tuesday.
Hawkeye guard Josh Dix set career-highs in points (31), 3-pointers (7) and steals (4), and tied his high-assist mark with 7. Teammate Payton Sandfort tied his high-point mark with 30.
Iowa shot season-bests, percentage-wise, in 3-pointers (48.6 percent) and free throws (88 percent).
Iowa’s Drew Thelwell is fourth in the nation in assists-to-turnovers ratio with 45 of the former and 11 of the latter. Dix is 19th with 42 and 13. Hawkeye center Owen Freeman leads the Big Ten in blocked shots per game with 2.1.
At 89.9 points per game, Iowa trails only Alabama nationally.
Indiana’s last game was an 82-69 win over USC Wednesday, the Hoosiers’ fifth-straight victory.
The Hoosiers average 6.2 more rebounds per game than their opponents. Iowa is last in the Big Ten in rebound margin at minus-5.0, and is minus-11.5 in conference games.
Indiana has four players averaging between 12.4 and 14.3 points. Junior forward Malik Reneau is one of them, but he suffered a knee injury last week and is out.
Oumar Ballo, a 7-foot, 235-pound transfer from Arizona, had 23 points and 8 rebounds in the USC game. He was a two-time first-team All-Pac 12 honoree at Arizona. When he has played in college, his teams have won 124 times and lost 23.
The Hawkeyes are slated to play at USC next Tuesday and UCLA next Friday. Greater Los Angeles is plagued with wildfires. The Los Angeles Lakers postponed its scheduled Thursday home game. Monday’s Minnesota Vikings-Los Angeles Rams NFL playoff game has been moved to Arizona.
USC is planning to start its spring semester Monday as scheduled. UCLA is going ahead with its Sunday Northwestern-UCLA women’s basketball game.
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