Articles Tagged: UNI men’s basketball

Coach Ben Jacobson enters his 20th season with high hopes and liking the roster he’s built

Former Washington high school and UNI star enjoying slow pace in Portugal and his Porto coach

Panthers go for run at end of first half, start of second to run away from Southern Illinois, 78-67

Leon Bond’s career-high 37 points leads UNI to their fourth straight win, shooting a season-high 69% from the field at the McLeod Center.

Northern Iowa erupted for a 25-0 scoring run to take control, led by Jacob Hutson’s 21 points , Trey Campbell’s 20, while Tytan Anderson reaches 1,000 career points

A 22-5 game-opening scoring run put the Northern Iowa men’s basketball team in front of Northern Illinois for good Saturday evening at McLeod Center en route to a lopsided, 101-57, win.

Panthers turn up defense and turn back Leathernecks in 82-56 rout

Anteaters roll to 80-60 win at McLeod Center, improving to 3-0 while dropping Panthers to 2-1

Northern Iowa ran past Dubuque in its men’s basketball season opener Monday night, 96-54.

Picked second in the Missouri Valley Conference’s preseason poll, the UNI men’s basketball team has big goals this season despite seven players departing and four arriving via the transfer portal this offseason.

The Northern Iowa men’s basketball team put its preseason work on display Saturday afternoon at McLeod Center, holding an open practice for season-ticket holders and media. Here’s what stood out.

Ben Jacobson’s Panthers are likely to find themselves among the conference’s favorites despite a fourth-place MVC finish a season ago and seven players departing via the transfer portal in the offseason.

Coach Ben Jacobson put an emphasis on offense during this training period, but said other aspects will be focus of fall workouts

After seven departures from last season’s roster via the transfer portal, Ben Jacobson and his assistants worked tirelessly this spring to sign four transfers and a walk-on to add to their duo of 2024 high school signees. That amount of roster turnover has led to summer workouts looking much different from a year ago.

After having an unprecedented seven players leave via the transfer portal after this past season, UNI men’s basketball coach Ben Jacobson enters his 19th season recruiting like never before between the months of March and May.