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.

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.

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.

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 some previous uncertainty, Iowa basketball's game against UCLA on Friday will be played Pauley Pavilion, the Bruins' home venue.

While the trip to Los Angeles provided Brock Harding and Owen Freeman with the chance to go see their favorite basketball perform and knock that off the bucket list, it also included getting beat pretty soundly twice and giving up over 90 points in the process.

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.

Iowa’s men’s basketball team gets its first true taste of the new-and-expanded Big Ten this week with its trip to Los Angeles to play USC on Tuesday and UCLA on Friday. The trip was already going to have interesting logistics, since the Hawkeyes were ...

The USC Trojans men’s basketball team is 10-6, 2-3 in Big Ten conference play. The Trojans are coming off a big win against Illinois. The Trojans return home to

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