Iowa, Hawkeyes and Ohio State
For the first time in 2025, Ohio State didn't have a game decided in the final minutes as the Buckeyes took down Iowa on Monday night.
Iowa defeated Penn State, 76-75, at home Friday night while Ohio State knocked off Purdue, 73-70, in West Lafayette last Tuesday. The Buckeyes’ record in their last ten games is 5-5 while the Hawkeyes’ record is 6-4 in their last 10 tilts. Iowa is 0-4 in true road games this season while Ohio State is 7-4 at Value City Arena.
Micah Parrish had 18 points and Ohio State ended a three-game skid at home with an 82-65 victory over Iowa on Monday night. Parrish scored 11 points in a dominant second half for the Buckeyes
Ohio State plays the Iowa Hawkeyes after Micah Parrish scored 22 points in Ohio State's 73-70 win against the Purdue Boilermakers.
Micah Parrish had 18 points and Bruce Thornton 15 when Ohio State pulled away in the second half for a rare runaway victory, 82-65, over Iowa in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday.
The Buckeyes haven’t had the homecourt success of most Big Ten teams, and the Hawkeyes haven’t at any conference road successes this season.
Victories away from home remain elusive for Iowa men’s basketball. The Hawkeyes lost their fifth consecutive road contest, dropping an x decision to Ohio State on Monday night at The Schottenstein Center in Columbus.
BOTTOM LINE: Ohio State takes on Iowa after Micah Parrish scored 22 points in Ohio State’s 73-70 win against the Purdue Boilermakers. The Buckeyes are 7-4 in home games. Ohio State is eighth in the Big Ten with 34.7 points per game in the paint led by Devin Royal averaging 8.3.
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Like Twain’s haters over a century ago, some people from within the very borders of our great state wrote off this Ohio State team weeks ago when they were 2-5 in Big Ten play and looked incapable of running an out of bounds play to save their life.