Big Ten releases 2016-17 home-and-away basketball designations
IOWA CITY, Iowa – The Big Ten Conference released on Monday each team’s home and away, and single-play designations for the 2017 men’s basketball conference season.
Iowa will play Illinois, Maryland, Nebraska, Purdue, and Rutgers home and away. The Hawkeyes will play the remaining league teams once, hosting Indiana, Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State, while traveling to Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Wisconsin.
Dates and television information will be assigned to opponents later this summer.
Three of Iowa’s five opponents for the home-and-away series – Rutgers, Illinois and Nebraska – finished with losing records last season, while a fourth, Maryland, has to replace four starters, as is the case with Iowa.
Iowa has made the NCAA Tournament in each of its past three seasons and has won at least 20 games in each of the past four seasons under head coach Fran McCaffery, who is entering his seventh season as head coach.
McCaffery has to replace four starters from last season’s team that advanced to the second-round of the NCAA Tournament.
Hawkeyesports.com contributed to the report