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Washington-Iowa men’s basketball glance: Time/TV/game info (Feb. 22, 2025)
The best way to sell this one? The Hawkeyes need a win to avoid 16th-place.
Feb. 21, 2025 9:38 pm, Updated: Feb. 22, 2025 9:32 am
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What: Washington (13-13 overall, 4-11 Big Ten) at Iowa (14-12, 5-10)
When/where: Saturday, 3 p.m., Carver-Hawkeye Arena
TV: FS1 (Connor Onion, Nick Bahe)
Livestream: Fox Sports Live
Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates
Series: Washington leads, 3-2
NCAA NET rankings: Iowa 63rd, Washington 95th
Line: Iowa by 6.5
Iowa’s next game: At Illinois Tuesday at 8 p.m.
What to know: Finally, the Huskies have returned to Iowa City.
It’s the first Washington-Iowa game since 1966, and the first at Iowa since 1965 when the Hawkeyes earned a 99-70 win. George Peeples, who went on to play six seasons in the ABA, scored 25 points for Iowa before a crowd of 11,800.
This is a game both teams could really use to avoid being shut out of the Big Ten tournament. The tourney takes the league’s top 15 teams. Iowa is 15th at 5-10, while Washington is 17th at 4-11.
Both teams experienced heartbreaking home defeats Wednesday. Iowa fell 80-78 to Oregon, failing on two chances to score in the final five seconds. Washington lost 89-85 in overtime against Rutgers, which leaped over Iowa and into 14th-place at 6-10.
Iowa got a bit of a revelation Wednesday in the play of fifth-year power forward Even Brauns of Iowa City. Brauns, a two-year Hawkeye, had 15 points in 23 minutes against Oregon. His previous Iowa-high had been 6 points. He has 21 points in his last two games after scoring 22 all season.
Iowa’s Payton Sandfort leads the Big Ten in made 3-pointers per game with 2.65.
In Big Ten play, the Huskies are 18th in scoring and the Hawkeyes are 18th in scoring defense.
First-year UW Coach Danny Sprinkle coached Utah State to a 28-7 record with an NCAA tournament win last season. Before that, he was 81-43 over four years at Montana State, with NCAA tourney berths the last two seasons.
Washington has two road wins, against Minnesota and Penn State.
Great Osobor, a 6-foot-8 senior forward from England, played for Sprinkle at Montana State, Utah State, and now Washington. He was the Mountain West Conference Player of the Year last season. He averages 15.2 points and 8.1 rebounds. He has 1,561 career points and 840 rebounds.
Washington senior DJ Davis was the nation’s top free throw shooter last year, making 95 of 100 for 95 percent at Butler. He is 45-of-49 this year.
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