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13-6 Overall, 7-5 Big Ten 3 FINAL FOURS 8 BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2 BIG TEN TOURNAMENT TITLES 26 NCAA TOURNAMENTS #25 RUTGERS (11-6, 7-6) at #15 IOWA (13-6, 7-5) 2020-21 SCHEDULE/RESULTS Feb. 10, 2021 // Iowa City, Iowa // Carver-Hawkeye Arena // 6:01 p.m. CT Date Opponent (TV) Time Nov. 25 N.C. Central W, 97-67 IOWA HAWKEYES (Previous Game Starters) Pos. No. Name Ht. Wt. Yr. Hometown Statistical Summary Nov. 27 Southern University W, 103-76 G 3 Jordan Bohannon 6-1 175 RS-Sr. Marion, Iowa 10.1 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 4.5 apg Dec. 3 Western Illinois W, 99-58 F 10 Joe Wieskamp 6-6 212 Jr. Muscatine, Iowa 14.6 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 1.4 apg Dec. 8 #16 North Carolina % W, 93-80 F 30 Connor McCaffery 6-5 205 RS-Jr. Iowa City, Iowa 3.6 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 4.0 apg F 15 Keegan Murray 6-8 215 Fr. Cedar Rapids, Iowa 6.8 ppg, 4.8 rpg, 1.0 bpg Dec. 11 Iowa State + W, 105-77 C 55 Luka Garza 6-11 265 Sr. Washington, D.C. 25.5 ppg, 8.4 rpg, 1.6 bpg Dec. 13 Northern Illinois W, 106-53 Head Coach: Fran McCaffery (Penn, 1979); 11th Season at Iowa (207-149); 23rd Season Overall (458-326) Dec. 19 vs. #1 Gonzaga ^ L, 88-99 GAME #20 STORYLINES Dec. 22 Purdue W, 70-55 Dec. 25 at Minnesota L, 95-102 (OT) • Iowa is averaging 9.6 turnovers per game through 19 games played. The Hawkeyes are Dec. 29 #19 Northwestern W, 87-72 on pace to break the school record for turnovers per game for a single season, which Jan. 2 at #14 Rutgers W, 77-75 is 10.3 established during the 2015-16 season. Jan. 7 at Maryland W, 89-67 • Rutgers enters Wednesday’s contest having won four straight, while Iowa has lost four Jan. 10 #16 Minnesota W, 86-71 of its last five. Jan. 17 at Northwestern W, 96-73 • Iowa starting guard CJ Fredrick has missed time in Iowa’s last five contests (lower leg injury). Jan. 21 Indiana L, 69-81 • Luka Garza is 16 points from 500 points this season and becoming the 11th Hawkeye Jan. 24 Nebraska postponed with two 500-point seasons during their career. He is the only Hawkeye in school his- Jan. 29 at #19 Illinois L, 75-80 tory to amass four 400-point seasons. Feb. 2 Michigan State W, 84-78 • Luka Garza is the first and only student-athlete in Big Ten history to accumulate 2,000 Feb. 4 #7 Ohio State L, 85-89 points, 800 rebounds, 125 blocked shots, and 100 3-pointers. He is the only player from Feb. 7 at Indiana L, 65-67 a major conference with those numbers dating back to the 1992-93 season. Feb. 10 #25 Rutgers (BTN) 6:01 p.m. • Luka Garza totaled 27 points and 12 rebounds in last Tuesday’s win over Michigan State Feb. 13 at Michigan State (FOX) 1:37 p.m. pushing the senior All-American over 2,000 points and 800 rebounds. Garza reached Feb. 18 at Wisconsin (ESPN/2) TBD 2,000 points in 113 games, faster than any other Big Ten player over the last 25 years. Feb. 21 Penn State (FS1) 4 p.m. • Jordan Bohannon (589) is 24 assists from becoming Iowa’s all-time assists leader (Jeff Feb. 28 at Ohio State (CBS) 3 p.m. Horner, 612). Bohannon is 15 assists from becoming just the third player in program March 4 at Michigan (ESPN/2) TBD history with four 100-assist seasons (Dean Oliver, Jeff Horner). March 7 Wisconsin (FOX) TBD • The Hawkeyes have posted 22 runs of 10-0 or better this season, which includes two March 10-14 at Big Ten Tournament* 14-0 runs (one in each half) in Iowa’s last outing at Indiana on Sunday. • Three Hawkeyes have made four or more 3-pointers in two games this season. Three all times listed are central players made five triples in the win over No. 16 North Carolina and three Hawkeyes made four treys in Thursday’s loss to No. 7 Ohio State. ^ -- played at Sioux Falls, South Dakota • Luka Garza is Iowa’s all-time scoring leader in Big Ten regular season games with 1,241 % -- ACC/Big Ten Challenge points and second in overall scoring; 74 points from surpassing Roy Marble (2,116). + -- Presented by Iowa Corn • Joe Wieskamp become the 50th Hawkeye to reach 1,000 career points on Jan. 10. Wies- * -- Big Ten Tournament kamp has made three or more 3-pointers in five of the last seven games. The junior has made 21 of his last 37 attempts (.567), dating back to Jan. 10. PRONUNCIATION GUIDE • Ten of Iowa’s 13 victories this season have come by 15 points or more. Michael Baer .................................................BEAR • Connor McCaffery (4.8) and Jordan Bohannon (3.4) rank first and second, respectively in the Luka Garza ............................................... LOU-kuh Big Ten in assist-to-turnover ratio. McCaffery is third nationally, while Bohannon is 13th. Jack Nunge ........ NONE-jee (rhymes with bungee) • Luka Garza ranks first in the country in points per game (25.5 ppg) and 13th in double- Josh Ogundele ..........................Oh-GOON-duh-lay doubles (8). He has scored 479 points against AP Top 25 teams, the most of any player Joe Toussaint .......................................two-SAHNT since the start of the 2019-20 season. • Iowa, who has led the Big Ten in scoring each of the last two seasons, ranks third in the Ahron Ulis ................................................. YOU-liss country, averaging 87.8 points per game. Joe Wieskamp..................................... WEEZ-camp MULTIMEDIA GAME INFORMATION TELEVISION MOBILE APPS/ONLINE RADIO LIVE STATISTICS • BIG TEN NETWORK • FOX SPORTS APP • Hawkeye Radio Network • StatBroadcast • XM 83 / Sirius 83 Kevin Kugler (PxP) hawkeyesports.com Robbie Hummel (analyst) Gary Dolphin (PxP) Bob Hansen (analyst) twitter.com/iowahoops facebook.com/hawkeyehoops instagram.com/iowahoops hawkeyesports.com INSIDE THE NUMBERS MARGIN OF VICTORY/DEFEAT IOWA RUT Points 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10+ 15+ 20+ Scoring Average 87.8 72.6 Wins 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 7 Scoring Defense 74.7 68.3 Losses 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 Scoring Margin +13.1 +4.4 FG% .477 .454 THE SETTING FG% Defense .420 .421 No. 15 Iowa (13-6, 7-5) returns home to entertain No. 25 Rutgers (11-6, 7-6), presented FT% .725 .601 by University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, on Wednesday. Tipoff is set for 6:01 p.m. (CT) 3-PT FG% .385 .342 on Mediacom Court at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. 3-PT FG% Defense .356 .319 Due to the pandemic, there will be no general admission admittance for this game. Rebound Margin +2.6 +0.6 Assists Per Game 19.5 14.6 Turnovers Per Game 9.6 11.2 ON THE AIR Steals Per Game 5.8 8.4 Radio: Iowa games are broadcast on the Hawkeye Radio Network. Gary Dolphin handles Blocks Per Game 4.4 5.1 the play-by-play, along with color commentator Bob Hansen. The network includes more MISCELLANEOUS STATS than 40 stations that blanket the state of Iowa and include portions of Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin. The Hawkeye Radio Network coverage includes a Double-Figure Scoring Games... 60-minute pregame show. Player 16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 Career Luka Garza 20 20 30 19 89 TV: Wednesday’s contest will be televised nationally on the Big Ten Network. Kevin Ku- Jordan Bohannon 17 22 20 4 8 71 gler and Robbie Hummel will call the action. Joe Wieskamp - - - 21 24 15 60 CJ Fredrick - - - - - - 13 5 18 Jack Nunge 7 - - - 2 6 15 INDIANA EDGES HAWKEYES IN BLOOMINGTON Connor McCaffery - - - 3 6 1 10 Indiana completed the season sweep over No. 8 Iowa with a 67-65 victory at Assembly Joe Toussaint - - - - - - 8 2 10 Keegan Murray - - - - - - - - - 5 5 Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. Patrick McCaffery - - - - - - - - - 4 4 • Armaan Franklin sank a 15-foot jumper with 1.7 seconds remaining to lift the Hoosiers to victory. Prior to the game-winning shot, Franklin was 1-of-9 from the field. 20-Point Scoring Games... Player 16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 Career • Iowa was led by Luka Garza and Joe Wieskamp, each netting 18 points. Garza scored Luka Garza 4 8 25 13 50 16 of his 18 points in the second half, including a stretch of scoring 12 straight points Jordan Bohannon 5 8 3 1 2 19 Joe Wieskamp - - - 4 5 3 12 for the Hawkeyes. Wieskamp scored 15 of his 18 points in the first half. Wieskamp also CJ Fredrick - - - - - - 3 2 5 led the team in rebounding for the second straight game, pulling down eight boards. • Jordan Bohannon tallied 11 points to move past 1,500 career points. He made three Double-Figure Rebounding Games... Player 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 Career triples to move into third place in all-time 3-pointers made in Big Ten history surpass- Luka Garza 5 1 15 8 29 ing Shawn Respert (MSU) and Pete Lisicky (PSU). He also tied a career high with seven Joe Wieskamp - - - 1 3 2 6 Jack Nunge - - - - - - 1 1 2 rebounds. Connor McCaffery - - - - - - 1 - - - 1 • Iowa starting guard CJ Fredrick did not play due to injury (lower leg injury).