Men's Basketball Breakdown: Iowa vs. Kennesaw State
Breaking down Sunday's men's basketball game between Iowa and Kennesaw State.
Game facts
Time and place — 3:05 p.m., Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City
TV — ESPNU (Jordan Bernfield, play-by-play; Robbie Hummel, analyst)
Radio — Hawkeye Radio Network
Records — Iowa 9-3, Kennesaw State 1-11
Rankings — Iowa is No. 25 in the Associated Press poll.
Series — Iowa leads, 1-0
Probable lineups
Iowa — Luka Garza (C, 6-11, 21.5 ppg.), Connor McCaffery (G, 6-5, Soph., 7.7 ppg.), CJ Fredrick (G, 6-3, Fr., 11.5 ppg.), Joe Wieskamp (G, 6-6, Soph., 12.3 ppg.), Joe Toussaint (G, 6-0, Fr., 6.2 ppg.)
Kennesaw State — Ugo Obineke (F, 6-6, Soph., 8.3 ppg.), Bryson Locksley (F, 6-8, Sr., 7.7 ppg.), Drew Romich (C, 6-9, Sr., 0.7 ppg.), Terrell Burden (G, 5-10, Jr., 10.3 ppg.), Adili Kurban (G, 6-2, Soph., 8.3 ppg.)
The lines
Spread — Iowa -29
Over/under — 146
The analytics
NET — Iowa 25, Kennesaw State 345
KenPom — Iowa 18th (Adjusted offense, 3rd; adjusted defense, 92nd), Kennesaw State 342nd (Adjusted offense, 340th; adjusted defense, 319th)
Sagarin — Iowa 18th, Kennesaw State 340th
What to watch
This is just one the Hawkeyes want to get through without any problems with the remainder of Big Ten play looming.
It would be a good game to get Toussaint going — the freshman guard struggled in his start against Cincinnati last week in Chicago.
