Iowa Vs Wisconsin: Five Things to Know and Game Time
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin men’s basketball team looks to bounce back against rival Iowa on Sunday at the Kohl Center. The iowa vs wisconsin matchup tips off at 3 p. m. CT and the game is sold out.
Game time and broadcast
Sunday's tipoff is set for 3 p. m. CT. The game is sold out. Fans who cannot make the trip can watch on FoxSports1 with Jack Kizer and Nick Bahe calling the action, or listen on the Badger Radio Network with Matt Lepay and Brian Butch handling the radio broadcast. Tickets were noted as available on SeatGeek. com in the context provided.
Iowa Vs Wisconsin matchup details
Wisconsin fell to Ohio State in Columbus on Tuesday, 86-69, snapping a two-game UW winning streak that had come against consecutive top-10 foes Illinois and Michigan State. The Badgers sit at 18-8 overall and 10-5 in Big Ten play. Iowa is coming off a 57-52 home win over No. 9 Nebraska on Tuesday night.
Resumes and analytics
Despite the loss, Wisconsin remains one of four teams nationally with three top-10 wins. Bucky sits sixth in the Big Ten, one game behind the double-bye No. 3 and No. 4 seeds for the conference tournament. Analytically, Wisconsin is 26th in the NCAA’s Wins Above Bubble (WAB). UW has faced the nation’s 28th-hardest schedule and posts the 31st-best strength of record. In NET rankings UW is 8-8 in Quadrant 1 and 2 games, including a trio of Quad 1A wins — a total only 14 schools have more. The contest features an Iowa resume that is very similar: the Hawkeyes sit 37th in WAB and 30th in strength of record.
Key players and recent form
Iowa is led by first-season head coach Ben McCollum, who took Drake to the NCAA Tournament last season. Bennett Stirtz, who joined McCollum from Drake, leads the Hawkeye offense with 20. 5 points per game while adding 4. 6 assists and 2. 5 rebounds.
For Wisconsin, Braeden Carrington followed a 20-point game at Ohio State by hitting five three-pointers in that setback. He has now hit three-plus triples in five contests this year, eclipsed 10 points in six games, and knocked down four-plus threes in four of those contests. Across seven true road contests this season he is averaging 12. 1 points and 3. 3 made threes per game, including a career-high 21 points off seven threes at Minnesota on Jan. 13.
History, streaks and schedule notes
UW holds a narrow 91-86 series lead over Iowa and has won six of the last seven meetings. The Badgers swept Iowa last season, winning 116-85 in Madison and 74-63 in Iowa City. In that Kohl Center game Bucky erupted for a Kohl Center record 116 points and broke the Big Ten single-game three-point record with 21 triples.
Wisconsin seeks its 11th Big Ten win on Sunday, which would clinch a winning conference record. UW has posted a winning Big Ten record in 22 of the last 25 seasons, dating back to 2000-01, the most of any school. Michigan State and Purdue are listed close behind with 20 and 18 winning seasons, respectively. Since 2001-02, when Bo Ryan and Greg Gard arrived in Madison, UW is tied with MSU for the most Big Ten wins and the best win percentage.
Sunday is the penultimate home game of the season before Wisconsin heads on a west coast trip to Oregon and Washington. Last season the Badgers split a west coast stint against USC and UCLA, 1-1. Wisconsin beat Washington during 2024-25, 88-62, in their first-ever Big Ten meeting, and the program has not played in Seattle since a 54-53 loss on Dec. 28, 1955. UW returns home for senior night on March 4 vs Maryland before ending the
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Sunday's iowa vs wisconsin game will carry implications for conference seeding and for both teams' postseason resumes; the available context lists the tipoff time, ticket and broadcast details, team records, analytics and a full sequence of recent results and historical notes.
