Believe it or not, Payton Sandfort admitted to a case of nerves early in the Iowa men’s basketball team’s season-opening game Monday night at home against Texas A&M-Commerce. But he and his teammates eventually settled down and ran to an 89-67 victory
The Lions of Commerce will try to pull the Upset of the Night on college basketball’s opening night, but Iowa has won its last 13 season openers.
The Hawkeyes got their act together in the second half and floated away from Minnesota Duluth before a small crowd at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, 102-81, in a men’s basketball exhibition game Friday night.
Iowa hosts Minnesota Duluth in a men’s basketball exhibition game Friday night. Minnesota Duluth is coached by former Iowa player Justin Wieck.
Hundreds of fans greet Iowa basketball teams and women wrestlers in downtown Iowa City
Times and television networks for Iowa’s 2024-25 men’s basketball schedule have been announced.
Iowa may not be a surefire Big Ten title contender, but it will be closer to that than 16th place. The team has some dudes.
Hawkeye forward Payton Sandfort was terrific last season in many ways. He wants to bow out at Iowa with a big senior season and “a ton of wins” before turning toward pro basketball.
Iowa’s Payton Sandfort is on the preseason All-Big Ten men’s basketball team. The 6-foot-8 senior forward averaged 16.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.7 assists last season.
The Iowa men’s basketball schedule for 2024-25 has been filled in, with Thursday’s announcement of its 20 Big Ten conference games.
Navon Shabazz is the Iowa men’s basketball team’s first commitment from the Class of 2026. He’ll play for a prep school in Des Moines after helping Davenport Assumption to the Class 3A state title last March.
Butler University officially announced Monday that former Iowa basketball player Connor McCaffery has been added to its men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach.
Iowa Athletics is making some adjustments to the seating configuration at basketball games that will most notably bring some students closer to the court, athletics director Beth Goetz said Thursday.
Iowa has eight regular-season nonconference home men’s basketball games scheduled for the upcoming season. Times and television will be announced later.
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