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Wisconsin-Iowa men’s basketball glance: Time/TV/game info (Feb. 8, 2025)
No. 21 Badgers bring height and heft to Carver against Iowa team that no longer has its best big man
Feb. 7, 2025 12:40 pm, Updated: Feb. 8, 2025 10:46 am
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What: No. 21 Wisconsin (18-5 overall, 8-4 Big Ten) at Iowa (13-9, 4-7)
When/where: Saturday, noon, Carver-Hawkeye Arena
TV: NBC (Noah Eagle, Nick Bahe)
Livestream: Peacock
Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates
Series: Wisconsin leads, 90-86
NCAA NET rankings: Wisconsin 15th, Iowa 65th (through Thursday)
Line: Wisconsin by 5.5
Against the spread: Wisconsin 14-8-1, Iowa 9-13
Iowa’s next game: At Rutgers next Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. (Iowa time)
What to know: Wisconsin defeated the Hawkeyes 116-85 in Madison on Jan. 3, making a Big Ten-record 21 3-pointers in 31 tries and 64.5 percent of its field goal tries.
Iowa is coming off a 90-81 home loss against No. 7 Purdue Tuesday, while Wisconsin jumped to a 19-2 lead and defeated Indiana 76-64 in Madison the same night. Sophomore forward Seydou Traore and junior center Riley Mulvey made their first starts as Hawkeyes.
Iowa outscored Purdue by 10 points in the 14 minutes Mulvey played.
The Hawkeyes’ last win over a ranked team was its 88-86 home overtime win over Wisconsin last Feb. 17. The last two Badgers-Hawkeyes games in Iowa City went to overtime.
The Hawkeyes, losers of five of their last six games, won’t have 6-foot-10 Owen Freeman (16.7 ppg) for this or any remaining game. Wisconsin features two 7-footers in its starting lineup, Nolan Winter (10.2 ppg) and Steven Crowl (9.3 ppg).
Iowa’s Josh Dix bounced back from a scoreless game at Ohio State on Jan. 27 to score 27 points against Purdue.
The most points scored by an individual against Iowa this season is Wisconsin guard John Blackwell’s 32.
Senior guard John Tonje leads the Badgers in scoring with 18.7 points per game. He has made 135 of 147 free throws (91.8 percent), and his team leads the nation in free throw shooting with 84.1 percent. Iowa has made 68 percent of its foul shots.
This is a Quad 1 game for both teams. Iowa is 0-8 in Quad 1 games. Wisconsin is 5-5.
According to Kenpom.com, Iowa was 165th in the nation in defensive rating through Wednesday. Every other Big Ten team was in the top 90.
Iowa hasn’t been four games under .500 in the Big Ten since the 2017-18 season.
The attendance for Tuesday’s Purdue-Iowa game was 8,445. The average Hawkeyes home crowd is 8,767.
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