Articles Tagged: UNI men’s basketball

Northern Iowa cruised to a 90-50, home-opening win Tuesday night at McLeod Center against NCAA Division-III Loras.

The calendar has yet to turn to November, but Northern Iowa men’s basketball coach Ben Jacobson knows he has a good team, and not because the Missouri Valley Conference’s preseason poll told him so.

The MVC held its annual summer men’s basketball teleconference Tuesday and the challenge of maintaining and building programs in this relatively new era of college sports was a popular topic.

Typically July doesn’t provide much in the way of college basketball news, but the Northern Iowa men’s basketball team has a lot more than just summer workouts going on right now.

A record-setting rookie season in the NBA hasn’t changed AJ Green. The Cedar Falls native and former two-time Missouri Valley Conference player of the year at Northern Iowa remains as tirelessly committed to his craft and as plain spoken as he was when he was living in his hometown and playing for the Panthers.

While the majority of college basketball programs have been fretting over their roster’s instability the past couple months, the Northern Iowa men’s basketball team has been one of only six Division I teams to not have a student-athlete enter the transfer portal.

UNI men’s basketball coach Ben Jacobson likes his team’s chances in this week’s MVC tournament, as long as it can clean up its defense.

The added energy of a rivalry game did not outweigh defensive miscues as Northern Iowa lost its sixth straight game, 82-74, to Drake Wednesday night at McLeod Center.

Five-game losing streaks are never timely, but Northern Iowa’s recent run of poor play elicited the word “weird” from men’s basketball coach Ben Jacobson ahead of the Panthers’ rivalry game against Drake Wednesday night.

Northern Iowa’s men’s basketball struggles continued Saturday afternoon at McLeod Center as it lost its fifth consecutive game, 80-62, to Indiana State.

A loss to last-place Evansville Wednesday night was the fourth straight for UNI men’s basketball, and Coach Ben Jacobson said it’s one of those games you better move on from.

Bowen Born forced two overtime periods with buzzer-beating 3-pointers, but his Northern Iowa men’s basketball team still came up short at Drake, 88-81, Wednesday at Knapp Center.

Northern Iowa and Drake among three teams tied for third place in the Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball standings. The rivals meet Wednesday night in Des Moines.

A dominant first half sent Northern Iowa past Valparaiso in men’s basketball Wednesday night at McLeod Center, 77-66.

Headlining UNI’s comeback win against Illinois-Chicago was a career-high 21 points from redshirt freshman Michael Duax, who added 11 rebounds for his third career double-double.