New Orleans-Iowa men’s basketball glance: Time/TV/game info (Dec. 15, 2024)

What: New Orleans (2-6) at Iowa (7-3), men’s basketball

When/where: 1 p.m., Sunday, Carver-Hawkeye Arena

TV: BTN (Cory Provus, Jess Settles)

Livestream: Fox Sports Live

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates, KRUI-FM

Series: First meeting

Line: Iowa by 31.5 points

Iowa’s next game: Vs. Utah Saturday in Sioux Falls, S.D., 5 p.m.

What to know: This is the fifth of nine straight games away from home for the Privateers of New Orleans, a member of the Southland Conference.

UNO’s wins are over Lindenwood and Tulane. It lost 89-65 to Kansas State, 91-60 to Baylor, and 80-54 to Stonehill. It has been outscored by 12.5 points per game.

James White, a 6-foot-5 guard, averages a Southland-leading 18.5 points per game. He previously was at Ole Miss and UAB.

Entering the weekend, the Privateers were 340th in the nation in field goal percentage at .395.

Iowa is coming off an 89-80 home loss to No. 3 Iowa State Thursday, a game it led for over 33 minutes. It was the Hawkeyes’ seventh loss in their last 101 home nonconference games.

Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery said guard Drew Thelwell will remain in the starting lineup after his first start as a Hawkeye Thursday. Ladji Dembele will again come off the bench after scoring 11 points in that role against Iowa State.

The Hawkeyes have been outrebounded by 10 or more in each of its last three games. That should end in this game, since UNO has outrebounded by 6.3 per game.