By Hawkeyesports.com

IOWA CITY, Iowa –  The University of Iowa men’s basketball team hosts Alabama State on Friday at 7:02 p.m. (CT) on Mediacom Court inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The game will be streamed live on Peacock.
• Tickets range from $15-35 for adults, $5-10 for youth and $5 for UI students. The game is Military Appreciation Night.

FOLLOW LIVE

Radio: Games are broadcast on the Hawkeye Radio Network with Gary Dolphin (play-by-play) and Bobby Hansen (color) on the call. The network includes more than 40 stations that blanket the state of Iowa and include portions of Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin. The Hawkeye Radio Network includes a 60-minute pregame show.
Stream: Friday’s game will be streamed live on Peacock — a paid subscription service. Steve Burkowski (play-by-play) and Tre Demps (color) will be on the call.

OPENING TIP

The Hawkeyes opened the 2023-24 season with a 110-68 victory over North Dakota on Nov. 7. The win was Iowa’s 13th consecutive season-opening victory.

Iowa scored 110 points against the Fighting Hawks — the most in a season opener under head coach Fran McCaffery. The point total is tied for the sixth most during the McCaffery era.

Junior Payton Sandfort scored 21 points and grabbed a career-high nine rebounds, narrowly missing his first career double-double. He made 7-of-13 field goals with three 3-pointers. It was his eighth career 20 point game and his 11th career game with 3 or more 3-pointers.

Iowa’s newcomers accounted for 49 points (44.5 percent of scoring) against North Dakota. Valpo transfer Ben Krikke had 18 points (8-of-13 FG) and six rebounds, while freshman forward Owen Freeman had 14 points (three dunks) in 15 minutes.

The Hawkeyes assisted on 23 of their 40 field goals with freshman Brock Harding dishing out seven assists in 10 minutes.

Sophomore Dasonte Bowen tied a career-high 12 points to go along with a career-best five assists in 21 minutes. It was Bowen’s second career start.

Iowa has won 84 of its last 90 nonconference home games, dating back to 2012.

McCaffery is 10 wins from becoming the winningest coach in Iowa basketball history. Tom Davis has 271 victories as Iowa’s head coach.

SCOUTING ALABAMA STATE

• The Hornets opened the 2023-24 season with a 69-59 road loss at Ole Miss on Nov. 6. ASU posted a 90-69 win over LaGrange in its lone exhibition.
  • Junior guard TJ Madlock is a second-team preseason all-conference selection. Madlock was the SWAC Newcomer of the Year in 2023 after averaging 11.2 points and 6.1 rebounds.
  • Alabama State was picked to finish eighth in the SWAC Preseason Poll in a vote of the league head coaches and SIDs.

SERIES HISTORY

• Friday’s game will be the fifth meeting all-time between Iowa and Alabama State. The Hawkeyes are 4-0 all-time in the series that began in 2001.
  • Iowa has put up 100+ points in the last two meetings — 105 in 2018 and 108 in 2021.
  • The Hawkeyes are 18-0 all-time against schools from the Southwestern Athletic Conference.