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Iowa releases Men's 2023-2024 Schedule. 8 of the 10 Conference Home Games are on the WEEKEND (2 Fri, 3 Sat, 3 Sun)

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Weekend Conference Home Games:

Fri Jan 12, Nebraska
Fri Feb 2, Ohio State

Sat Jan 6, Rutgers
Sat Jan 20, Purdue
Sat Feb 17, Wisconsin

Sun Dec 10, Michigan
Sun Feb 11, Minnesota
Sun March 10, Illinois


LINK to the Full Schedule:




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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

IOWA MBB RELEASES 2023-24 SCHEDULE


IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa men’s basketball team released the details of the 2023-24 schedule on Tuesday. The 20-game Big Ten Conference slate was released live on BTN Today.

2023-24 SCHEDULE NOTES

  • Iowa will open the regular season with three of its first four games at home, including two straight to start the year.
  • Iowa will open its Big Ten slate at Purdue (Dec. 4) for the second time in three seasons. The Hawkeyes hosted the Boilermakers in 2020-21 and traveled to West Lafayette in 2021-22.
  • Iowa will travel to Ames, Iowa, to face Iowa State in the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series matchup on Dec. 7 before hosting Michigan in the second December Big Ten game on Dec. 10.
  • The Hawkeyes will play back-to-back conference road games twice during the regular season.
  • Iowa will play six weekend home games (three Saturday, three Sunday) — all six against Big Ten foes. The team has home weekend games inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena twice in February and in the regular season finale.
  • The Hawkeyes will also play five Friday home games, including two against Big Ten competition – Nebraska (Jan. 12) and Ohio State (Feb. 2).
  • Iowa has a stretch of seven home games over a 10-game span from Dec. 10-Jan. 24. That includes a stretch of four of five league home contests in early January, hosting Rutgers (Jan. 6), Nebraska (Jan. 12), Purdue (Jan. 20) and Maryland (Jan. 24).
  • The Hawkeyes will play on Super Bowl Sunday for the fifth straight season and seventh time in nine years. The Hawkeyes will host Minnesota in Iowa City on Feb. 11.
  • Seven of Iowa’s final 12 Big Ten games will be played on the road.
  • The Big Ten Tournament will be held in Minneapolis from March 13-17.
  • Iowa will host Quincy in an exhibition on Oct. 30 before opening the season against North Dakota on Nov. 7.
The Hawkeyes return three starters – guard Tony Perkins and forwards Patrick McCaffery and Payton Sandfort — and five letterwinners from a team that went 19-14, finished tied for fifth in the Big Ten Conference and qualified for the NCAA Tournament for a fourth straight year. Iowa also welcomes five newcomers to the roster, including Valparaiso transfer Ben Krikke and Belmont transfer Even Brauns.

Season tickets and Fight for Iowa Mobile passes are available by contacting the Iowa Athletics Ticket Office at hawkeyesports.com/tickets or by calling 1-800-IA-HAWKS.
 
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Weekend Conference Home Games:

Fri Jan 12, Nebraska
Fri Feb 2, Ohio State

Sat Jan 6, Rutgers
Sat Jan 20, Purdue
Sat Feb 17, Wisconsin

Sun Dec 10, Michigan
Sun Feb 11, Minnesota
Sun March 10, Illinois
 
That's one of the best conference home schedules they've had in years. Only 2 mid-week conference home games this year. No excuses for bad crowds then!
 
Monday, Dec. 4 – at Purdue

Sunday, Dec. 10 – Michigan

Tuesday, Jan. 2 – at Wisconsin

No gimmies in the B1G, but this a tough first 3 games. It would be nice, just once, to not dig a hole to begin the season.
 
Monday, Dec. 4 – at Purdue

Sunday, Dec. 10 – Michigan

Tuesday, Jan. 2 – at Wisconsin

No gimmies in the B1G, but this a tough first 3 games. It would be nice, just once, to not dig a hole to begin the season.
I think Michigan may be one of the worst teams in the conference this year. Especially earlier in the season. Torvik has them as preseason 12th in the conference in his projections currently.
 
I think Michigan may be one of the worst teams in the conference this year. Especially earlier in the season. Torvik has them as preseason 12th in the conference in his projections currently.
Holy crap! How is that even possible?
 
Holy crap! How is that even possible?
Well, they lost 2 NBA lottery picks + Dickinson from a team that didn't make the NCAA tournament and they replaced them with a role player from Alabama, a guy who barely saw the court at Seton Hall and a a guy who averaged 11 & 5 on an okay Tennessee team. They also had a 5-star high school commit that didn't pass their academic requirements so had to de-commit late.

They struggle with transfer recruiting because their admissions department is so strict. They had at least 2 guys who tried to transfer in that decided to go elsewhere when their admissions department decided to not recognize a lot of their credits. That's why all 3 of their transfers are grad students--it's basically impossible to transfer into Michigan for an undergrad because they don't recognize credits from other schools and no one wants to start over on a degree just to play basketball.

All of this to say, there's a lot of speculation that Juwan will be looking to be getting out of town after this year when his son graduates. He's tired of fighting with the admissions department to field a team.
 
Nice overall look at the upcoming season.

Would still like to get rid of the teams with traditional and/or projected 300+ NET rankings....


 
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To be fair, the one clunker of a game is (hopefully) the pregame for the women in Des Moines.

Looks like Alabama State and Florida A&M (in Des Moines) will both end up with a NET ranking of 300 plus. Hopefully no other teams (Arkansas State, North Dakota, etc) join them.

And this year's team, which is considered an NCAA Tournament bubble team, can't afford a bad Quad 4 home loss like last year's team had.
 
So we play these six once:

RU
Neb
OSU
@ MSU
@nw
@IU

Not bad.
MSU will be the favorite in BIG...happy to only play them once at their place..and not waste a home game in a sure loss.

IU is pretty highly regarded(not so sure about them excelling without trace-jack) so same theory would apply as with MSU.

RU home venue tough..good to avoid it.
OSU always talented..avoid their place.
Neb has beaten us at their place.
NW....like playing them twice.

We get PU ,Md and Wis twice ..ouch.
Overall not bad.
 
Figured I would share that the College Basketball "Almanac" came out today. It's a big digital magazine that goes pretty in-depth on every team written by Jeff Goodman and a bunch of other college hoops analysts. If you're a college hoops junkie like I am, I recommend it.
Anyways, here is their Big Ten projected standings:
1. Purdue
2. Michigan St
3. Illinois
4. Maryland
5. Indiana
6. Ohio St
7. Wisconsin
8. Iowa
9. Northwestern
10. Michigan
11. Rutgers
12. Nebraska
13. Penn St.
14. Minnesota

In the Iowa write up, there is some interesting Fran quotes about the PG battle. Goodman thinks that Harding won't play much this year and that it will primarily be a 50/50 split between Dix and Bowen with Dix likely being the day 1 starter. Also, Fran seems to be very confident that they will be much better at rebounding this year due to fresh legs in the front court. Sounds like he plans for there to be a big rotation of the 4 bigs Krikke, Brauns, Freeman and Dembele.
 
Figured I would share that the College Basketball "Almanac" came out today. It's a big digital magazine that goes pretty in-depth on every team written by Jeff Goodman and a bunch of other college hoops analysts. If you're a college hoops junkie like I am, I recommend it.
Anyways, here is their Big Ten projected standings:
1. Purdue
2. Michigan St
3. Illinois
4. Maryland
5. Indiana
6. Ohio St
7. Wisconsin
8. Iowa
9. Northwestern
10. Michigan
11. Rutgers
12. Nebraska
13. Penn St.
14. Minnesota

In the Iowa write up, there is some interesting Fran quotes about the PG battle. Goodman thinks that Harding won't play much this year and that it will primarily be a 50/50 split between Dix and Bowen with Dix likely being the day 1 starter. Also, Fran seems to be very confident that they will be much better at rebounding this year due to fresh legs in the front court. Sounds like he plans for there to be a big rotation of the 4 bigs Krikke, Brauns, Freeman and Dembele.

A couple of good signs: players have stated that Dembele has been rebounding everything in practice. Owen Freeman was a rebounding machine during the Europe trip.

And, FWIW, on Aug 8 (first game of the Europe trip), in Iowa’s 123-77 win over the Paris All-Stars, Dasonte Bowen & Tony Perkins were the starting guards. Payton Sandfort & Ben Krikke also started the game. If PMac would have been there, I am guessing he would have been the 5th and final starter. But what happens from then until the October 30 exhibition game, we shall see....

From the Aug 8 opening tip:

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Did the write up announcing the schedule, when it said there were 5 newcomers, including the two portal guys, forget someone? I count 6.
 
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I was very curious to see how much Iowa was playing on Peacock this year--only 1 Big Ten game surprised me. Seems like they got a lot of the games of the projected top teams + Minnesota.
 
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I was very curious to see how much Iowa was playing on Peacock this year--only 1 Big Ten game surprised me. Seems like they got a lot of the games of the projected top teams + Minnesota.


One does seem very low!

Fans hate BTN Plus and Peacock but streaming is, unfortunately, the present & future.

A little bit more info on which B1G games are EXCLUSIVELY on Peacock:

8 B1G football games and 77 regular season B1G men’s and women’s basketball games will be streamed EXCLUSIVELY on Peacock.

From an Aug 16 article: B1G football teams that were expected to play in games streaming exclusively on Peacock this season included:
  • Michigan: Sept. 2 vs. East Carolina
  • Ohio State: To be scheduled
  • Penn State: Sept. 9 vs. Delaware
  • Washington: Sept. 16 at Michigan State
  • Wisconsin: To be scheduled
  • Iowa: To be scheduled (now we know it will be Oct 7 vs Purdue)

Also:
Notre Dame: Sept. 16 vs. Central Michigan was exclusively on Peacock
 

Purdue, Michigan State lead Peacock’s 2023-24 Big Ten men’s basketball schedule


Peacock is going to be the home of 34 Big Ten men’s basketball games during the 2023-24 season.

The slate of games exclusive to the streaming network begins Monday, Nov. 11 with an all-New Jersey showdown when Rutgers faces 2023 surprise Sweet Sixteen team Princeton in Trenton and ends Wednesday, March 13, 2024, when Peacock hosts its first Big Ten Tournament games with the two first-round matchups.

The set of 22 regular season conference games begins Tuesday, Dec. 5 with a double-header as Indiana visits Michigan and Wisconsin plays at Michigan State. It concludes March 5, 2024, when Purdue heads to Champaign to face off against Illinois. Notable rivalry games airing on Peacock include Purdue at Indiana on Jan. 16, 2024, and Michigan at Michigan State a few weeks later on Jan. 30.

The non-conference schedule features a few visitors that are expected to contend for their conferences and even a national title. On Friday, Nov. 11, Ohio State will play host to Texas A&M and Wisconsin will welcome Tennessee. On Saturday, Dec. 16, Purdue gets a home game against Arizona in a matchup of two of college basketball’s consistently excellent programs in recent years.

The opener between Rutgers and Princeton is the first of two neutral-site games on the docket. The second comes on Nov. 18, when Nebraska and Oregon State meet in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Two of the 34 games will feature Big Ten teams hosting historically Black colleges and universities: Alabama State at Iowa on Friday, Nov. 10, and Jackson State at Northwestern on Friday, Dec. 29.

Here is the full list of Big Ten men’s basketball games airing exclusively on Peacock during the 2023-24 season (all times EST):

Princeton @ Rutgers (Trenton, NJ)Monday11/6/20237:00 PM
Texas A&M @ Ohio StateFriday11/10/20237:00 PM
UTSA @ MinnesotaFriday11/10/20237:30 PM
Alabama State @ IowaFriday11/10/20238:00 PM
Tennessee @ WisconsinFriday11/10/20239:00 PM
Morehead State @ Penn StateFriday11/17/20237:00 PM
USC Upstate @ MinnesotaSaturday11/18/20232:00 PM
Oregon State v Nebraska (Sioux Falls)Saturday11/18/20234:00 PM
Wisconsin @ Michigan StateTuesday12/5/20237:00 PM
Indiana @ MichiganTuesday12/5/20239:00 PM
Arizona @ PurdueSaturday12/16/20234:30 PM
LeMoyne @ Penn StateThursday12/21/20237:00 PM
Maine @ MinnesotaFriday12/29/20237:00 PM
Jackson State @ NorthwesternFriday12/29/20238:00 PM
Purdue @ MarylandTuesday1/2/20247:00 PM
Penn State @ Michigan StateThursday1/4/20247:00 PM
Minnesota @ MichiganThursday1/4/20249:00 PM
Indiana @ RutgersTuesday1/9/20247:00 PM
Purdue @ NebraskaTuesday1/9/20249:00 PM
Purdue @ IndianaTuesday1/16/20247:00 PM
Ohio State @ NebraskaTuesday1/23/20247:00 PM
Michigan @ PurdueTuesday1/23/20249:00 PM
Illinois @ Ohio StateTuesday1/30/20247:00 PM
Michigan @ Michigan StateTuesday1/30/20249:00 PM
Indiana @ Ohio StateTuesday2/6/20247:00 PM
Michigan State @ MinnesotaTuesday2/6/20249:00 PM
Michigan @ IllinoisTuesday2/13/20247:00 PM
Ohio State @ WisconsinTuesday2/13/20249:00 PM
Iowa @ Michigan StateTuesday2/20/20247:00 PM
Maryland @ WisconsinTuesday2/20/20249:00 PM
Wisconsin @ IndianaTuesday2/27/20247:00 PM
Purdue @ IllinoisTuesday3/5/20247:00 PM
Big Ten TournamentWednesday3/13/20246:30 PM
Big Ten TournamentWednesday3/13/20249:00 PM




 
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