Mike Hlas

The Spartans have hopes of a Big Ten regular-season championship and more. The Hawkeyes are trying to win their way into the Big Ten tournament.

Iowa can’t storm through tournament with three wins in three days as it did the last three years. Just reaching Friday’s quarterfinals will require two wins, starting with an instant rematch with Wisconsin.

Hawkeyes and Badgers somehow have never before met in the current incarnation of this tourney

Eagles are 29-0 as they make a run at second-straight national-championship and 10th overall

Iowa drops to 16th-place at 6-12 after falling to Wildcats in Evanston, and needs to win one of its final two games to have a chance to advance to the Big Ten tourney.

Two teams go into the cage with 6-11 Big Ten records. One comes out ... at 7-11.

The loser in this matchup of teams with 6-11 Big Ten records will be in danger of being excluded from the conference’s tournament.

Iowa is assured a losing Big Ten season for first time since 2018 after getting beaten by Illini.

Hawkeyes face an Illini team that is skidding after its most-lopsided loss in program history

Iowa gave No. 3 UCLA its second-toughest game of the season, but the final seconds and a 67-65 win went to the team that’s 14-1 in the conference, not 8-8.

If Big Ten men’s hoops borrowed the system employed by European soccer, even games like Saturday’s Washington-Iowa affair would be of great importance

Iowa was down by nine points early in the second half, but bounced back for the win behind Payton Sandfort’s

The best way to sell this one? The Hawkeyes need a win to avoid 16th-place.

Iowa falls for the eighth time in its last 10 games. Josh Dix’s layup in the final moments rolled off.

It’s the first time the two have met since the 2021 NCAA tournament