The Iowa Hawkeyes are scheduled to take a West Coast trip next week and burning wildfires in Los Angeles County could impact those games.The Hawkeye men's baske

UCLA absolutely crushed Iowa 94-70 at Pauley Pavilion to get back on track and snap a four-game losing streak of its own while Iowa picked up its second consecutive loss. However, the blowout defeat may not be the worst news from the game if you're an Iowa fan.

Losing Sandfort, who averages 16.2 points per game, isn’t what the Hawkeyes (12-6 overall, 3-4 Big Ten, 55 NET) need right now. They’re coming off back-to-back losses to USC and UCLA, and they can’t afford too many more defeats, especially as they head into a five-game stretch that includes four home games.

Iowa’s third straight loss was a bad one, at home against Minnesota. Attendance remains down, while apathy is going up.

Lew Alcindor, Bill Walton, and John Wooden haven’t played or coached for UCLA inside Pauley Pavilion since the late 1960s and early 1970s, but the Iowa men’s basketball team allowed the 2024-25 rendition of the Bruins to look just like those famous squads on Friday evening in Los Angeles.

The senior forward suffered a shoulder injury in the first half of the Hawkeyes’ 94-70 loss at UCLA last Friday in Los Angeles and sat out the second half. Monday, Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery was noncommittal on Sandfort’s status for the game against the Gophers.

After a dominating 25-point victory against Indiana on Jan. 11, hope was in the air for the Iowa men’s basketball team. They owned a solid 12-4 overall, 3-2 conference mark, and had a ripe opportunity to steal at least one,

The Iowa Hawkeyes (12-5, 3-3 Big Ten) travel to Los Angeles to tussle with the UCLA Bruins (11-6, 2-4) in Friday Big Ten action. Tip time at Pauley Pavilion will be 9 p.m. ET (FS1). Let's analyze

Penn State takes on the Iowa Hawkeyes after Adrian Baldwin Jr. scored 22 points in the Nittany Lions' 80-72 victory over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.

The trip was already going to have interesting logistics, since the Hawkeyes were going to be gone for almost a week, but the wildfires that have raged throughout Los Angeles County could alter the schedule.

The Bruins’ head coach, who has employed the bigs in certain situations, said they ‘made me look smart’ after both rose to the occasion in Tuesday’s victory