Oregon-Iowa men’s basketball glance: Time/TV/game info (Feb. 19, 2025)

What: Oregon (18-8 overall, 7-8 Big Ten) at Iowa (14-11, 5-9)

When/where: Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Carver-Hawkeye Arena

TV: BTN (Kevin Kugler, Robbie Hummel, Andy Katz)

Livestream: Fox Sports Live

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

Series: Iowa leads, 6-2

NCAA NET rankings: Oregon 31st, Iowa 63rd (through Monday)

Line: Oregon by 1.5

Iowa’s next game: Washington, in Iowa City Saturday at 3 p.m.

What to know: Will a pregame beer bash help attendance for this game?

Iowa has created a “Student Palooza” for this game, with $2 draft beer and pretzels for all UI students with valid state-issued identification and their HawkID card.

The pregame temperature is expected to hover around zero. Will students brave that for beer and basketball?

Iowa is back home after a 101-75 loss at Maryland Sunday. The Hawkeyes were shorthanded, with center Owen Freeman already out for the season. Starting guard Drew Thelwell missed his second-straight game with a sprained ankle.

Hawkeye center Riley Mulvey was ill and didn’t make the Maryland trip. Backup Even Brauns had season-highs of 15 minutes and 6 points at Maryland, with two dunks.

Tuesday, Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery said it looked like Thelwell would have a good chance of playing against the Ducks, and that Mulvey will be back.

Sophomore forward Ladji Dembele, who scored a total of 13 points in the nine games from Jan. 3 to Feb. 4, has averaged 9 points in the last three games. Sophomore guard Pryce Sandfort had his third-straight game of scoring in double figures.

This is the first time the Ducks and Hawkeyes have met since No. 7-seed Oregon defeated No. 2-seed Iowa, 95-80, in the second round of the 2021 NCAA tournament.

Fran McCaffery is in his 15th season as Iowa’s coach, and Dana Altman is in his 15th as Oregon’s. All of Altman’s previous Ducks teams won at least 20 games. His career record, which includes stops at Marshall, Kansas State and Creighton, is 773-403.

Oregon is in the hunt for an NCAA tournament berth. It was a No. 8-seed in Joe Lunardi’s latest projections for ESPN, and that wasn’t hurt by the Ducks’ 75-57 win over Rutgers Sunday in Eugene.

Oregon had been in the AP Top 25 for nine weeks, and was as high as No. 9. That was before it lost five straight Big Ten games immediately before beating Northwestern and Rutgers in its last two outings.

The Ducks have road wins against Oregon State, USC, Ohio State and Penn State

Of the nine players in Oregon’s rotation, six are from the Eastern time zone and six are transfers.