Mike Hlas

Three are in the NBA. Others are in Europe, Asia, and all over college basketball.

This could be Iowa’s 100th-consecutive game without going to overtime.

Ben McCollum’s first Hawkeyes team is slotted ahead of Indiana, among others. Iowa guard Bennett Stirtz is a preseason first-team All-Big Ten choice.

Twenty-six of Hawkeyes’ 31 games will be televised with the other five on streaming services

Big Ten football had East and West divisions for 10 seasons, from 2014 to 2023. Wisconsin and Iowa were the best of the West with the Badgers winning the division four times and the Hawkeyes three. Five of their meetings in that time determined the division’s representative in the league’s championship game.

Stirtz is a first-season Hawkeye, having transferred from Drake after being the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year there last season. He led the MVC in scoring (19.2 points per game) and steals (2.2), and also averaged 5.7 assists.

The preseason Nos. 1 and 2 teams aren’t in my latest top 25. Nor should they be.

The No. 11 Hoosiers had to struggle for 60 minutes, but they had enough to stave off Iowa in Kinnick Stadium for the first time since 2007.

A 49-yard touchdown pass from Fernando Mendoza to Elijah Sarratt capped a wild fourth quarter as Indiana wins at Kinnick Stadium.

If Iowa wants to be part of the national college football discussion, the time is now, not as a spoiler against Penn State or Oregon.

She has the most fans in which two states? Probably, that is.

Curt Cignetti’s Indiana team looks like anything but a one-hit wonder, but the transformation he has done with the Hoosiers is a wonder indeed.

Iowa fans, take note. If your team is beating Indiana Saturday, chanting “Overrated!” at the No. 11 Hoosiers would devalue the Hawkeyes’ win.

Ben McCollum’s first game as Iowa’s coach is Nov. 4. His first matchup with a Big Ten foe is Dec. 2 at Michigan State.

If you feed a Jersey Shore seagull, it’s going to want more, more, more.