Articles Tagged: Iowa men’s basketball

The Iowa men’s basketball team is getting a home game in the 2024 National Invitation Tournament, and it’s coming up fast.

Iowa’s NIT fate was sealed Thursday when it dropped to 18-14 after dropping a 90-78 decision to Ohio State at the Big Ten tournament in Target Center.

The Iowa Hawkeyes lost their second-round Big Ten men’s basketball tournament game to Ohio State, 90-78. They never led, and didn’t get closer than eight points in the final nine minutes.

Iowa’s Big Ten tournament opener against Ohio State on Thursday in Minneapolis is the definition of a must-win, and that’s to get to a probable must-win Friday against Illinois.

Previewing Thursday’s Big Ten men’s basketball tournament second-round game between Iowa and Ohio State at Target Center in Minneapolis, where Hawkeye basketball teams are 6-0 over the last 53 weeks.

Iowa 6-foot-10 freshman Owen Freeman has done more than average double-digits in scoring in securing Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors, and the sky may be the limit.

Freeman was the conference’s Freshman of the Week nine times. Also, Hawkeye guard Tony Perkins (2nd-team) and forward Payton Sandfort (3rd-team) are got All-Big Ten recognition. .

Iowa has played its best basketball of the season over its last five games. With a win Sunday night, the Hawkeyes should close in on a spot in the NCAA tournament.

Ben Krikke, Patrick McCaffery and Tony Perkins have combined to score over 4,000 points at Iowa, and didn’t buckle when an NCAA tournament berth seemed highly unlikely a few weeks ago.

The Iowa men’s basketball team has been playing its best ball of the season the last three weeks, and has a chance for a fourth Quad 1 win in that time when it hosts Illinois Sunday night.

Iowa took the lead early in the second half and never relinquished it, shooting 63 percent in the second half. The 87-80 win over Northwestern is the Hawkeyes’ fourth win in the last five games. The vanquished include Michigan State and Wisconsin.

Previewing Saturday’s Iowa men’s basketball game at Northwestern: The Hawkeyes try to climb over .500 in the Big Ten for first time this season, on the road against the Big Ten’s third-place Wildcats.

Payton Sandfort got Iowa’s first men’s triple-double Tuesday. Caitlin Clark has 16 triple-doubles and counting, and former Hawkeye Samantha Logic had six.

Payton Sandfort has 26 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists in the Hawkeyes’ 90-81 victory over Penn State

Iowa City West forward Jack McCaffery is arguably the top junior basketball player in the state. But the youngest son of University of Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery has his sights set on playing college ball elsewhere.