Iowa men’s basketball gets a lot of Big Ten weekend home games in 2022-23

You wanted more Saturday/Sunday Big Ten home games for Iowa men’s basketball, you got them.

The Hawkeyes will have six conference home games on weekends this season, an upgrade from last season’s three.

The 2022 part of the schedule is no tiptoeing into the season.

The Hawkeyes will play six straight Power Five conference teams between Nov. 25 and Dec. 11, capped by a home game against Wisconsin

The Big Ten released its conference schedule Thursday. Iowa will host Wisconsin on Dec. 11. That’s immediately after it has played Clemson, either California or TCU, Georgia Tech, Duke and Iowa State.

Iowa makes two other trips to the New York/New Jersey area before it gets to Rutgers in Piscataway, N.J., on Jan. 8. The Hawkeyes are at Seton Hall in South Orange, N.J., on Nov. 18 for the Gavitt Tipoff Games, then play Duke in New York three weeks later as part of the Jimmy V Classic.

2022-23 Iowa men’s basketball schedule

Oct. 31 — Truman State (exhibition)

Nov. 7 — Bethune-Cookman

Nov. 11 — North Carolina A&T

Nov. 16 — at Seton Hall

Nov. 21 — Omaha

Nov. 25 — vs. Clemson in Niceville, Fla.

Nov. 26 — vs. California or TCU in Niceville, Fla.

Nov. 29 — Georgia Tech

Dec. 6 — vs. Duke in New York

Dec. 8 — Iowa State

Dec. 11 — Wisconsin

Dec. 17 — Southeast Missouri State

Dec. 21 — Eastern Illinois

Dec. 29 — at Nebraska

Jan. 1 — at Penn State

Jan. 5 — Indiana

Jan. 8 — at Rutgers

Jan. 12 — Michigan

Jan. 15 — Maryland

Jan. 18 — Northwestern

Jan. 21 — at Ohio State

Jan. 26 — at Michigan State

Jan. 29 — Rutgers

Feb. 4 — Illinois

Feb. 9 — at Purdue

Feb. 12 — at Minnesota

Feb. 16 — Ohio State

Feb. 19 — at Northwestern

Feb. 22 — at Wisconsin

Feb. 25 — Michigan State

Feb. 28 — at Indiana

March 5 — Nebraska

March 8-12 — Big Ten tournament in Chicago

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