By Pat Harty

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Hawkeye fans will get to feast on Sunday, and it won’t even take a streaming channel to do it.

The Iowa men’s and women’s basketball teams will both play games on Sunday, starting with the No. 13 Iowa women facing No. 6 Michigan at 11 a.m. at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

The game will also be televised on FOX.

The Iowa men will then play on the road against No. 24 Wisconsin with tipoff set for 3 p.m. on FS1, while the seventh-ranked Iowa wrestling team will face No. 3 Oklahoma State at 5 p.m. on Sunday in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and with the match televised on ESPN.

So that adds up to about six straight hours of Hawkeye sports viewing on Sunday, and none of the three events will be shown on the B1G+ streaming channel, much to the delight of Hawkeye fans, who have voiced some frustration over two of the last three Iowa women’s games being shown on B1G+, which often uses college students to call the games.

All three teams will have a chance to earn a signature win on Sunday, but rarely does that come easy.

The Iowa women’s basketball team will have the advantage of playing at home, and before a sellout crowd, but will also be facing a Michigan squad that is 22-4 overall and 13-2 in the Big Ten.

Iowa has won the last five games in the series and leads the all-time series, 56-20.

Iowa will also honor its seniors on Sunday, adding to what already will be an an emotional atmosphere.

But the challenge facing the Hawkeyes will be immense, considering Michigan nearly upset top-ranked Connecticut, losing 72-69 on Nov. 21 in Uncasville, Connecticut, while Iowa was crushed by UConn, 90-64, in early December in Brooklyn, New York.

And while all eyes will be focused on Sunday’s game, Iowa head coach Jan Jensen will also be planning for the future as well with 2027 five-star recruit Nation Williams visiting Iowa City this weekend.

The 6-foot-2 Williams, who is from Las Vegas, is ranked by ESPN as the No. 10 prospect in the 2027 class.

A win over the Wolverines before a sellout crowd would certainly be a nice sales pitch.

Meanwhile the Iowa men’s basketball team (19-7, 9-6) will face Wisconsin for the 178th time on Sunday in a series dating back to 1909.

Wisconsin has won six of the last seven in the series, dating back to the 2021-22 season. Iowa’s lone win was an 88-86 victory in overtime in Iowa City on Feb. 17, 2024.

The Badgers lead Iowa 58-29 all-time in Madison. Wisconsin has won the last four at home in the series, eight of the last 10. Iowa has won three times in Madison since the 2000-01 season (2011-12, 2016-17, 2020-21).

Wisconsin is 18-8 overall and one game ahead of Iowa in the Big Ten standing at 10-5.

The Badgers are also have two of the best wins in the nation at Michigan (91-88) and at Illinois in overtime (92-90), along with a 92-71 victory over Michigan State at home.

Wisconsin plays at a much faster pace on offense compared to previous seasons under veteran head coach Greg Gard, and that has allowed for guards Nick Boyd and John Blackwell to flourish. They combined to average 39.1 points per game, led by Boyd’s 20.3 per-game average.

“Obviously, they can rally score it,” Iowa head coach Ben McCollum said of the Badgers. “Their offense I think probably top ten in the country. They’ve had games where they just really shockingly beat team, whether it’s at Michigan. They really did a good job against Michigan State. They’ve just had some big, big wins and some tough wins.

“So obviously they can really score, very talented and stick to their stuff. Those two guards (Boyd and Blackwell) really get into the paint quite a bit and then their bigs can shoot and they’re pretty physical as well. So it’ll be a tough test for us.”

As for the Iowa wrestling team, Sunday’s dual will be the 60th all-time meeting between two schools that have combined to win 58 NCAA Championships (Oklahoma State 34, Iowa 24).

The Cowboys lead the all-time series, 29-28-2. But Iowa has won 10 of the last 12 meetings, including a 18-16 victory at the National Duals Invitational earlier this season.

The Hawkeyes are 8-15-2 all-time at Oklahoma State. Their last win in Stillwater was a 22-9 victory in 2024.

The teams have met every year since 1994 except when the series was halted in 2020-21 due to the COVID 19 pandemic.

“Rivalries are historic and they’re for the present and they’re also setting you up for the future,” said Iowa head coach Tom Brands. “This isn’t something that you down play because college athletics may be changing. This isn’t something that you down play because they’re in a different conference or whatever.

“It’s about two storied programs; it doesn’t matter what conference they’re in. It doesn’t matter what conference we’re in. What matters is that we’re after the same turf and we want to represent at the highest level. And it’s good test.”

Editor’s note: hawkeyesports.com contributed to this article.