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6-3 Overall, 0-1 Big Ten 3 FINAL FOURS 8 BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2 BIG TEN TOURNAMENT TITLES 26 NCAA TOURNAMENTS MINNESOTA (4-4, 0-0) vs. IOWA (6-3, 0-1) 2019-20 SCHEDULE/RESULTS Dec. 9, 2019 // Iowa City, Iowa // Carver-Hawkeye Arena (15,056) // 7:01 p.m. CT Date Opponent (TV) Time Nov. 8 SIU Edwardsville W, 87-60 MINNESOTA GOLDEN GOPHERS Nov. 11 DePaul ^ L, 78-93 Pos. No. Name Ht. Wt. Yr. Hometown Statistical Summary G 5 Marcus Carr 6-2 195 RS-So. Toronto, Canada 14.4 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 6.6 apg Nov. 15 Oral Roberts W, 87-74 G 0 Payton Willis 6-5 200 RS-Jr. Fayetteville, Ark. 12.0 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 2.4 apg Nov. 21 North Florida $ W, 83-68 G 22 Gabe Kalscheur 6-4 200 So. Edina, Minn. 12.1 ppg, 2.3 rpg, 2.0 apg Nov. 24 Cal Poly $ W, 85-59 F 30 Alihan Demir 6-9 235 Sr. Ankara, Turkey 7.1 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 1.0 apg Nov. 28 vs. #12/12 Texas Tech # W, 72-61 C 25 Daniel Oturu 6-10 240 So. Woodbury, Minn. 17.5 ppg, 10.9 rpg, 3.4 bpg Nov. 29 vs. San Diego State # L, 73-83 Head Coach: Richard Pitino (Providence, 2005); Seventh Season at Minnesota (116-96); Eighth Season Overall (134-110) Dec. 3 at Syracuse % W, 68-54 Dec. 6 at #4/5 Michigan L, 91-103 IOWA HAWKEYES Pos. No. Name Ht. Wt. Yr. Hometown Statistical Summary Dec. 9 Minnesota (BTN) 7:01 p.m. G 3 Jordan Bohannon 6-1 185 Sr. Marion, Iowa 9.5 ppg. 0.8 rpg, 2.5 apg Dec. 12 at Iowa State + (ESPN2) 7:01 p.m. G 30 Connor McCaffery 6-5 205 RS-So. Iowa City, Iowa 7.7 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 4.6 apg Dec. 21 vs. Cincinnati * (BTN) 8:05 p.m. G 5 CJ Fredrick 6-3 195 RS-Fr. Cincinnati, Ohio 10.5 ppg, 1.6 rpg, 3.5 apg Dec. 29 Kennesaw State (ESPNU) 3:05 p.m. G 10 Joe Wieskamp 6-6 210 So. Muscatine, Iowa 10.7 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 1.8 apg Jan. 4 vs. Penn State ~ (BTN) 1 p.m. C 55 Luka Garza 6-11 260 Jr. Washington, D.C. 22.7 ppg, 9.8 rpg, 1.3 bpg Jan. 7 at Nebraska (BTN) 8 p.m. Head Coach: Fran McCaffery (Penn, 1979); 10th Season at Iowa (180-135); 23rd Season Overall (431-312) Jan. 10 Maryland (FS1) 6 p.m. BIG TEN HOME OPENER STORYLINES Jan. 14 at Northwestern (BTN) 7 p.m. Jan. 17 Michigan (FS1) 8 p.m. • Luka Garza leads the Big Ten and is 11th nationally in points per game (22.7). In Iowa’s Jan. 22 Rutgers (BTN) 8 p.m. last outing at Michigan, Garza scored a career-high 44 points, which are the most points Jan. 27 Wisconsin (BTN) 7:30 p.m. ever scored in a single-game by an Iowa big man, third most in program history, most Jan. 30 at Maryland (BTN) 7:30 p.m. points by an opposing player in Crisler Center history only behind Rudy Tomjanovich’s Feb. 2 Illinois (FS1) Noon 48 points versus Indiana in 1969, and the most points scored by a Hawkeye since guard Feb. 5 at Purdue (BTN) 6 p.m. John Johnson poured in a school-record 49 points against Northwestern in 1970. Feb. 8 Nebraska (BTN) 5 p.m. Feb. 13 at Indiana (BTN) 7 p.m. • Luka Garza reached the 1,000-point threshold with a free throw in the first half of Feb. 16 at Minnesota (FS1) Noon Friday’s contest at Michigan. Garza’s accomplishment will be recognized at midcourt Feb. 20 Ohio State (ESPN/2) 6 p.m. prior to Monday’s game against Minnesota. Feb. 25 at Michigan State (ESPN/2) 6 p.m. • The Big Ten’s top two scorers square off Monday night in Iowa’s Luka Garza (22.7 ppg) Feb. 29 Penn State (BTN) 11 a.m. and Minnesota’s Daniel Oturu (17.5 ppg). March 3 Purdue (BTN) 8 p.m. • Iowa’s three defeats have come to teams with a combined 26-1 record (DePaul, San March 8 at Illinois (BTN) 6 p.m. Diego State, Michigan). all times listed are central • The Golden Gophers are making their first road trip since Nov. 15 at Utah. Iowa will be playing its first home game since Nov. 24 versus Cal Poly. ^ -- Gavitt Games - Iowa City • Monday will be Minnesota’s Big Ten opener and have not played a game in a week $ -- Las Vegas Invitational Preliminary Game since beating Clemson on Monday, Dec. 2 in Minneapolis. # -- Las Vegas Invitational - Las Vegas • Jordan Bohannon is nine assists from becoming the sixth Hawkeye to amass 1,000 points % -- Big Ten/ACC Challenge and 500 assists. Bohannon, Iowa’s all-time leader in 3-pointers made, is 17 points from + -- Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series tying former teammate Tyler Cook for 20th on Iowa’s all-time scoring chart. * -- Chicago Legends - Chicago (United Center) ~ -- played at The Palestra - Philadelphia • Connor McCaffery has 41 assists and only seven turnovers, tops in the Big Ten and fourth nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (5.9). Over the last seven games, McCaffery has 35 assists and only four turnovers. PRONUNCIATION GUIDE • After both missing Iowa’s road game at Syracuse, CJ Fredrick (quad) and Cordell Pemsl Michael Baer .................................................BEAR (back) returned to action in the Hawkeyes’ last outing at No. 4/5 Michigan Friday night. Bakari Evelyn ...................buh-CAR-ee EVE-uh-lyn • Iowa has led the Big Ten in scoring offense two of the last six years, including last season. Luka Garza ............................................... LOU-kuh • Iowa has qualified for four NCAA tournaments over the last six years (2014, 2015, 2016, Ryan Kriener ............................................KREE-ner Jack Nunge ........ NONE-jee (rhymes with bungee) 2019) and seven postseason tournaments over the last eight seasons (4 NCAA; 3 NIT). Cordell Pemsl ........................................... PEM-sull • Fran McCaffery has guidedIowa to 20 wins or more in five of the last seven seasons and Joe Toussaint .......................................two-SAHNT upper division finishes in the Big Ten six of the last seven seasons. Only Michigan State Joe Wieskamp..................................... WEEZ-camp (7) has more first division finishes than Iowa (6) and Wisconsin (6) since the 2013 season. MULTIMEDIA GAME INFORMATION TELEVISION MOBILE APPS/ONLINE RADIO LIVE STATISTICS • BTN • FOX SPORTS APP • Hawkeye Radio Network • Sidearm • XM 372 Kevin Kugler (PxP) hawkeyesports.com Robbie Hummel (analyst) Gary Dolphin (PxP) Bob Hansen (analyst) twitter.com/iowahoops facebook.com/hawkeyehoops hawkeyebasketball.com hawkeyesports.com INSIDE THE NUMBERS MARGIN OF VICTORY/DEFEAT IOWA MINN Points 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10+ 15+ 20+ Scoring Average 80.4 72.4 Wins 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 Scoring Defense 72.8 63.0 Losses 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 Scoring Margin +7.7 +9.4 FG% .451 .438 THE SETTING FG% Defense .441 .406 After playing its last four games away from Iowa City the last two weeks, Iowa (6-3, 0-1) FT% .726 .629 returns home to host Minnesota (4-4, 0-0) on Monday. Tipoff is slated for 7:01 p.m. (CT) 3-PT FG% .338 .353 on Mediacom Court at Carver-Hawkeye Arena (15,056). Tickets are $25 for adults, and 3-PT FG% Defense .337 .294 $10 for youth and UI students. Rebound Margin +2.4 +3.9 Assists Per Game 17.7 16.4 Turnovers Per Game 11.4 12.9 ON THE AIR Steals Per Game 6.9 5.8 Radio: Iowa games are broadcast on the Hawkeye Radio Network. Gary Dolphin handles Blocks Per Game 2.9 5.4 the play-by-play, along with color commentator Bob Hansen. The network includes more MISCELLEANOUS 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 Career Jordan Bohannon 17 22 20 3 62 TV: Monday’s Big Ten home opener will be televised nationally on BTN. Kevin Kugler and Luka Garza - - - 20 20 8 48 Robbie Hummel will call the action. Joe Wieskamp - - - - - - 21 6 27 Cordell Pemsl 15 8 - - - 1 24 Ryan Kriener 2 2 7 1 12 MICHIGAN OUTLASTS HAWKEYES IN ANN ARBOR Jack Nunge - - - 7 - - - 2 9 Connor McCaffery - - - - - - 3 3 6 Despite Luka Garza’s 44-point scoring outburst for the Hawkeyes, No. 4/5 Michigan won CJ Fredrick - - - - - - - - - 4 4 Friday night’s Big Ten opener, 103-91, at the Crisler Center. Joe Toussaint - - - - - - - - - 3 3 Riley Till - - - - - - 1 - - - 1 • Junior Luka Garza became the 49th Hawkeye to score No. 1,000 points, reaching the 1,000-point milestone after netting a career-high 44 points against the Wolverines. 20-Point Scoring Games... Garza’s 44 points are the most by an Iowa big man, third most in a single-game in pro- Player 16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 Career Jordan Bohannon 5 8 3 1 17 gram history, and are the most scored by a Hawkeye in a single-game since guard John Luka Garza - - - 4 8 5 17 Johnson poured in a school-record 49 points against Northwestern on Feb. 24, 1970. Joe Wieskamp - - - - - - 4 - - - 4 CJ Fredrick - - - - - - - - - 1 1 • Luka Garza’s 44 points are the most scored by a visiting player in Crisler Center history, besting Ohio State’s Dennis Hopson’s 39 points on Jan.