Penn State-Iowa men’s basketball glance: Time/TV/game info (Jan. 24, 2025)

What: Penn State (3-5 Big Ten, 13-6 overall) at Iowa (3-5, 12-7)

When/where: Friday, 8:07 p.m., Carver-Hawkeye Arena

TV: FS1 (Chris Voster, Nick Bahe)

Livestream: Fox Sports Live

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

NCAA NET rankings: Penn State 49th, Iowa 63rd

Series: Iowa leads, 34-21

Line: Iowa by 3.5

Iowa’s next game: At Ohio State Monday at 7 p.m. (CT)

What to know: Iowa, loser of its last three games, has had season-lows in scoring in its last two with 70 points at UCLA last Friday and 67 against Minnesota Tuesday.

The Hawkeyes havern’t lost four straight Big Ten games since the 2018-19 season.

Iowa has won its last four games over Penn State in Iowa City. The home team has won the last eight games in this series.

Penn State ended a 4-game losing streak with an 80-72 home win over Rutgers Monday.

Nittany Lions guard Ace Baldwin is fourth in the nation in assists with 8.1 per game. He also averages a team-high 14.7 points and has 37 steals. He scored 22 points and had six assists against Iowa in the Lions’ 89-79 win in State College last February.

Baldwin is the reigning Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. He is Division I's active career leader in steals (308) and his 763 career assists are second among active Division I players.

Six Lions average at least 10.2 points per game. All began their collegiate careers at other schools. One of them, forward Puff Johnson, is out with a hand injury.

Seven-foot junior Yanic Konan Niederhauser of Penn State leads the Big Ten in blocked shots with 2.2 per game.

Penn State is 0-3 on the road in conference games. It is looking for its second win in Iowa City in the last 22 years.