The Iowa Hawkeyes (12-5, 3-3 Big Ten) travel to Los Angeles to tussle with the UCLA Bruins (11-6, 2-4) in Friday Big Ten action. Tip time at Pauley Pavilion will be 9 p.m. ET (FS1). Let's analyze

Our latest episode of the UCLA Bruins Insider Podcast recaps UCLA's dominant win over the Iowa Hawkeyes at home on Friday night. After losing their last four games, the Bruins have regained their stride with a major Big Ten win.

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Iowa men’s basketball player Payton Sandfort injured his left (non-shooting) shoulder during Friday’s game at UCLA and will miss the rest of the contest. Sandfort got tangled up with a UCLA player during the first half and went to the bench in pain.

Iowa basketball can still salvage its West Coast trip with a win over UCLA on Friday, but the Hawkeyes will need to fix their road struggles to do it.

Lew Alcindor, Bill Walton, and John Wooden haven’t played or coached for UCLA inside Pauley Pavilion since the late 1960s and early 1970s, but the Iowa men’s basketball team allowed the 2024-25 rendition of the Bruins to look just like those famous squads on Friday evening in Los Angeles.

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Our expert college basketball predictions expect the Hawkeyes to play much better on the second-leg of its West Coast road swing.

Freeman 3-3 5-5 11, Pa.Sandfort 0-4 2-2 2, Dix 7-11 0-0 19, Harding 2-7 2-2 8, Thelwell 2-3 2-4 7, Pr.Sandfort 2-7 3-3 7, Traore 1-5 3-4 5, Mulvey 2-2 2-4 6, Dembele 2-4 0-1 5, Kingsbury 0-1 0-0 0, Tadjo 0-0 0-0 0, Brauns 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-47 19-25 70.

Ohio State and Notre Dame arrived in Atlanta on their charter flights on Friday as the teams moved closer to Monday night’s College Football Playoff national championship

Eric Dailey Jr. scored a career-high 23 points and UCLA snapped its four-game losing streak with a 94-70 win over Iowa on Friday night. The Bruins never trailed and the Hawkeyes were only able to