Articles Tagged: UNI men’s basketball

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.

Dubuque Wahlert graduate Cael Schmitt started four seasons at point guard for Coe College, helping the Kohawks reach back-to-back NCAA Division III national basketball tournaments. He entered the transfer portal for his graduate season and has committed to Northern Iowa as a rare kid going from D-III to Division I.

The transfer portal, and the player movement phenomenon created by it, finally made its presence felt in the UNI men’s basketball program this spring. Ben Jacobson’s team had an unprecedented seven players enter the portal since the end of the 2023-24 season.