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Iowa-UCLA men’s basketball glance: Time/TV/game info (Jan. 17, 2025)
Hawkeyes do what they’ve never done before: Face a UCLA team that is on a 4-game losing streak
Jan. 17, 2025 10:49 am, Updated: Jan. 17, 2025 1:41 pm
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What: Iowa (3-3 Big Ten, 12-5 overall) at UCLA (2-4, 11-6)
When/where: Friday, 8:07 p.m. (CT), Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles
TV: FS1 (Guy Haberman, Don MacLean)
Livestream: Fox Sports Live
Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates
Series: Iowa leads, 5-3
NCAA NET rankings: UCLA 38th, Iowa 48th (through Wednesday)
Line: UCLA by 6
Iowa’s next game: Minnesota in Iowa City, Tuesday at 8 p.m.
What to know: Iowa is finishing a 2-game trip to southern California after losing 99-89 at USC Tuesday.
USC shot 64.9 percent from the field. Over the Hawkeyes’ three Big Ten road games, all losses, the opponents have shot 61.6 percent and outrebounded Iowa by 16 per game.
Payton Sandfort scored 15 second-half points, giving him 66 in the second-halves of his last three games. Owen Freeman led Iowa with a career-high 23 points. He has scored at least 13 in every game he’s played this season.
UCLA has lost its last four games. It has made just 22.3 percent of its 3-pointers in that stretch.
Mick Cronin was 99-36 overall and 56-19 in the Pac-12 in his first four years as the Bruins’ coach. In the season-and-a-half since, they are 26-22 total and 12-14 in conference games.
Junior forward Tyler Bilodeau leads UCLA in scoring with 14.4 points per game. His father, Brent Bilodeau, was the 17th pick in the 1991 National Hockey League draft. He never played a game in the NHL, but spent six seasons with the Johnstown Chiefs of the ECHL.
UCLA’s top seven scorers are transfers from Oregon State, Oklahoma State, USC, Arizona, Louisville, Nevada and Utah.
It’s the first meeting between Iowa and UCLA since 1990. In 1965, the Hawkeyes defeated No. 1 UCLA in Chicago, 87-82. The Bruins had won 43 of their previous 44 games and went on to win the national-championship that year.
In 1974, UCLA won its 88th-straight game with a 68-44 decision over the Hawkeyes, also in Chicago. Two days later, the Bruins’ NCAA record streak ended with a loss at Notre Dame.
Don MacLean, the color commentator for FS1’s telecast of this game, scored 18 points in the last UCLA-Iowa game, an 88-71 Hawkeyes win in Iowa City in 1990.
UCLA’s average home crowd this season has been 5,529.
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