Men's Basketball Breakdown: Iowa vs. Illinois
Breaking down Sunday's game between Iowa and Illinois.
Game facts
Time and place — 12:01 p.m. (CST), Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City
TV — FS1 (Wayne Randazzo, play-by-play; Nick Bahe, analyst)
Radio — Hawkeye Radio Network
Records — Iowa 15-6 (6-4 Big Ten), Illinois 16-5 (8-2)
Rankings — Iowa is No. 18 and Illinois is No. 19 in the Associated Press and USA Today coaches polls.
Series — Illinois leads, 85-75. Iowa has won the last four games in the series.
Lineups
Iowa — Joe Wieskamp (F, 6-6, Soph., 15 ppg.), Luka Garza (C, 6-11, Jr., 23 ppg.), Joe Toussaint (G, 6-0, Fr., 7.2 ppg.), CJ Fredrick (G, 6-3, Fr., 11.3 ppg.), Connor McCaffery (G, 6-5, Soph., 6.2 ppg.)
Illinois — Giorgi Bezhanishvili (F, 6-9, Soph., 8.3 ppg.), Kofi Cockburn (C, 7-0, Fr., 14.4 ppg.), Ayo Dosunmu (G, 6-5, Soph., 16 ppg.), Trent Frazier (G, 6-2, Jr., 9.9 ppg.), Da'Monte Williams (G, 6-3, Jr., 2.2 ppg.)
Fast facts
• Iowa's last four wins against the Illini have come on four different courts — Champaign and Iowa City in the regular season, New York and Chicago in the Big Ten Tournament.
• Illinois has won seven consecutive games, the longest active streak in the Big Ten.
• This is the fifth game in a seven-game stretch in which the Hawkeyes have played a ranked team.
What to watch
The Hawkeyes are back home after having their five-game winning streak snapped, and they'll need to knock off the Big Ten leaders to stay in the conference race.
Garza gets another battle against a great Big Ten big man, and he'll have to stay out of the foul trouble he ran into against Maryland in Thursday's 82-72 loss.
The other good battle will be between Wieskamp and Dosunmu, two players who have been difficult matchups for defenses all season.
