The Iowa Hawkeyes return home for one final tune-up contest before beginning Big Ten play with a road trip to No. 1 Purdue next Monday.
Iowa (4-2) welcomes in North Florida (4-3) tonight to Carver-Hawkeye Arena after a 1-1 stint for the Hawkeyes in the Rady Children’s Invitational in San Diego, Calif.
The Hawkeyes lost on Thanksgiving Day to Oklahoma (6-0), 79-67. Iowa was limited to just 35.8% shooting in that contest versus the Sooners, including just 17.4% from 3-point range.
Iowa responded with a nice bounce-back effort against Seton Hall (4-2), topping the Pirates, 85-72, as four Hawkeyes found their way into double-figure scoring. Junior forward Payton Sandfort led the way for Iowa with a season-high 22 points on 7-of-14 shooting, including 4-of-10 from beyond the arc.
Graduate forward Ben Krikke scored 19 points on 8-of-10 shooting and dished out five assists. Senior guard Tony Perkins scored 14 points and redshirt senior forward Patrick McCaffery added 10 points.
“We played two really good teams. We knew that before we got on the plane. We played really well today. We did some good things yesterday and we did some things that had to be corrected and we got them corrected. That’s exactly what we hoped to accomplish when we came out here,” Iowa head men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery said after the Seton Hall win.
Here’s how Hawkeye fans can tune into tonight’s contest versus North Florida.