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IU Basketball game day essentials: Indiana back home to face Iowa

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January 30, 2024

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Game Day essentials:

Iowa (12-8, 4-5) vs. Indiana (12-8, 4-5)

Tip Time: 7:00 p.m. Eastern, Tuesday
Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (17,222), Bloomington, Ind.
Television: BTN (Kevin Kugler, Brian Butch)
Stream: Fox Sports
IU Radio Network: IU Radio Network
Point Spread: Iowa is around a 1.5 point favorite.
KenPom Projected Score: No. 92 Indiana 80 – No. 44 Iowa 82
Series: Indiana leads series, 106-82.

Iowa’s Fran McCaffery

Fran McCaffery is in his 14th season as head coach of the Iowa men’s basketball program, after being hired as the program’s 22nd head coach in the spring of 2010. McCaffery currently sits as Big Ten’s third-longest tenured head coach, behind Purdue’s Matt Painter and Michigan State’s Tom Izzo.

McCaffery has led Iowa to a record of 273-184 overall record, with a 130-123 record in Big Ten play since taking over as head coach. Across his 14 seasons, Iowa has made seven NCAA Tournament appearances, along with three stints in the NIT. McCaffery’s highest Big Ten standing has been third three separate times, with the most recent coming in the 2020-21 season. The Hawkeyes have one Big Ten tournament title under McCaffery’s tenure, with a championship in the 2021-22 season.

McCaffery had some impressive stints at mid-major programs before making his way to the Big Ten. Prior to Iowa, McCaffery led Siena to three NCAA Tournament appearances in five seasons, with all three of those years also yielding a conference regular season and tournament championship. McCaffery would win MAAC Coach of the Year in the 2008-09 season, where his team went 27-8 overall with a 16-2 record in conference.

Before Siena, McCaffery had a six-year stint with UNC Greensboro, where he also led them to an NCAA Tournament appearance, after earning an automatic bid while winning the conference tournament championship in the 2000-01 season. The year after, the Spartans finished tied for first in the conference, handing McCaffery a regular season title as well.

Before becoming a full-time head coach, McCaffery spent time as an assistant at Notre Dame, Lehigh, and Penn. McCaffery was named head coach at Lehigh after being an assistant for two seasons and earned an NCAA Tournament appearance there as well. After that season, McCaffery would step down and take an assistant job at Notre Dame, before becoming head coach for UNC Greensboro.

Iowa’s results and roster

DATE	OPPONENT	LOCATION	TIME/RESULT
11/7/2023	North Dakota	Iowa City, Iowa	W 110-68
11/10/2023	Alabama State	Iowa City, Iowa	W 98-67
11/14/2023	at #8 Creighton (Gavitt Games)	Omaha, Neb.	L 84-92
11/17/2023	Arkansas State	Iowa City, Iowa	W 88-74
11/23/2023	vs. Oklahoma (Rady Children’s Inv.)	San Diego, Calif.	L 67-79
11/24/2023	vs. Seton Hall (Rady Children’s Inv.)	San Diego, Calif.	W 85-72
11/29/2023	North Florida	Iowa City, Iowa	W 103-78
12/4/2023	at #4 Purdue	West Lafayette, Ind.	L 68-87
12/7/2023	at Iowa State	Ames, Iowa	L 65-90
12/10/2023	Michigan	Iowa City, Iowa	L 80-90
12/16/2023	vs. Florida A&M	Des Moines, Iowa	W 88-54
12/20/2023	UMBC	Iowa City, Iowa	W 103-81
12/29/2023	Northern Illinois	Iowa City, Iowa	W 103-74
1/2/2024	at #21 Wisconsin	Madison, Wis.	L 72-83
1/6/2024	Rutgers	Iowa City, Iowa	W 86-77
1/12/2024	Nebraska	Iowa City, Iowa	W 94-76
1/15/2024	at Minnesota	Minneapolis, Minn.	W 86-77
1/20/2024	#2 Purdue	Iowa City, Iowa	L 70-84
1/24/2024	Maryland	Iowa City, Iowa	L 67-69
1/30/2024	at Michigan	Ann Arbor, Mich.	W 88-78

Iowa’s game notes (via Iowa Athletics)

McCAFFERY: IOWA’S WINNINGEST HEAD COACH

Head coach Fran McCaffery, who is in his 28th season as a head coach and 14th at Iowa, won his 272nd game as a Hawkeye on Jan. 15 at Minnesota, making him the winningest coach in program history. McCaffery has 273 career wins as Iowa’s head coach.
Iowa defeated Rutgers, 86-77, on Jan. 3, giving McCaffery his 127th career Big Ten victory. He has a school record 129 Big Ten wins.

B1G TONY

Senior Tony Perkins is averaging a team-best 18.1 points, 4.4 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists in Big Ten play. The guard is shooting 49.6 percent from the floor and 85.7 percent from the charity stripe.
Over his last three games, Perkins is averaging 22.7 points on 57.5 percent shooting, while making 90.5 percent (19-of-21) of his free throw attempts. He also averages 3.7 assists (against four combined turnovers), three rebounds and 2.3 steals.
The Indianapolis native has scored in double figures in every Big Ten game with four 20-point contests and six 15+ games. He has five games with three or more steals against league opponents.

PAYTON CATCHES FIRE

After scoring a season-low six points in the home loss to Maryland on Jan. 24, junior Payton Sandfort responded in a big way in a road win at Michigan.
The Waukee, Iowa, native matched a career-high, scoring 26 points on 10-of-14 shooting. He went 6-of-8 from 3-point range, tying a career-high with six makes.
In the second half, Sandfort was deadly. He made eight of his 10 field goal attempts, including 5-of-6 3-pointers. He played all 20 minutes of half No. 2.

THE B1G’S BEST FROSH

Owen Freeman has been one of the best freshmen in the Big Ten. The Illinois native leads the conference in scoring (224), rebounds (123), blocks (34) and is tied for first in steals (20), while ranking second in field goal percentage (.643).
Freeman’s three double-doubles are the most by a freshman in the conference and tied for the ninth most in the league.
Freeman’s 34 blocks are tied for the third-most by a freshman in the NCAA this season.

CONSISTENT KRIKKE

Graduate Ben Krikke has scored in double figures in 16 of Iowa’s 20 games this season. The Canada native is leading the team, averaging 15.7 points on 56 percent shooting.
Krikke ranks third in the Big Ten in field goal percentage (.560), eighth in field goals (122) and 12th in scoring (15.7).
He has shot 60 percent or better from the field in eight games and he has three games with 10 or more field goals. He made 8-of-10 field goals (80 percent) in the win over Seton Hall on Nov. 24.
Krikke has two double-doubles — 17 points and a season-high 12 rebounds in the win over UMBC (his first as a Hawkeye) and 19 points and 10 rebounds in a win over Rutgers. Krikke has six career double-doubles.
He has a team-high six 20-point games. He scored 24 points (11-of-18 shooting) at No. 8 Creighton and a season-high 25 points (10-of-14 FG), nine rebounds and four steals in the win over Arkansas State. Against UNF, Krikke scored 21 points (5-of-9) shooting — 17 in the second half — and went 11-for-11 from the free throw line. He netted 24 points on 8-of-15 shooting (8-of-11 FT) against Michigan, 20 points on 9-of-12 shooting against NIU and 25 points on 11-of-17 shooting in the road win at Minnesota.

Iowa’s KenPom notable numbers:

(out of 362 teams)

Tempo – No. 11 (Offense No. 14 / Defense No. 126)

Offensive Efficiency – No. 20

Iowa has an effective field goal percentage of 53.6 percent on the year (No. 66). The Hawkeyes are shooting 34.8 percent from three (No. 125), and 53.8 percent from two (No. 57).
Iowa does not shoot a lot of threes. Their attempt rate (3FGA/FGA) at is very low at 30.6 percent (No. 320). The Hawkeyes score 57.1 percent of their points from two (No. 33).
Iowa has one of the higher assist rates in the country, with a 60.5 assist percentage for every field goal made (No. 20). They also take very good care of the basketball, with turnovers on just 13.7 percent of possessions (No. 9).
The Hawkeyes don’t get to the line at a high rate (FTA/FGA is 31.4 percent, No. 219), but they do convert their chances with a 76.8 team free throw percentage (No. 31).

Defensive Efficiency – No. 111

Opposing teams hold a 50.6 effective field goal percentage against Iowa on the season. That comes in at No. 196 overall. Teams are shooting 33.1 percent from three (No. 151) and 51.1 percent from two (No. 215).
The best adjective to give Iowa’s defense is average. Almost all of their stats rank near the middle of all Division 1 teams (No. 150-200 range).
An area where they have exceeded average is in their steal percentage, with a 10.5 percent steal rate on the year (No. 96).
Teams have been able to get offensive rebounds at a decent clip against Iowa (30.1 percent rate, No. 222).

Extras

Iowa has been handed the 35th-hardest schedule of all Division 1.
Indiana native Tony Perkins has the 248th-highest assist rate in the country, as well as the 162nd-highest steal rate.
Former IU recruiting target Owen Freeman is 81st in the country in two-point percentage, and 41st in block percentage.
Josh Dix has the tenth-best offensive rating in the Big Ten.

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Zach Lahn projected to win Iowa GOP governor primary, upsetting Trump’s pick in a state Democrats hope to flip

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June 3, 2026

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Zach Lahn projected to win Iowa GOP governor primary, upsetting Trump’s pick in a state Democrats hope to flip

Zach Lahn will win the Republican primary for Iowa governor, CBS News projects, overcoming a Trump-backed congressman and setting up a November contest against Democrat Rob Sand that could be one of this year’s most competitive gubernatorial races.

Lahn — a farmer and businessman who has touted his ties to the “Make America Healthy Again” movement — prevailed over a crowded GOP field on Tuesday. Sand, who serves as state auditor, ran for the Democratic nomination unopposed.

His victory bucks the recent winning streak of Trump-backed candidates and marks an upset over Rep. Randy Feenstra, who didn’t attend any primary debates and was viewed by many observers as a frontrunner. President Trump endorsed Feenstra last week, calling him “MAGA all the way,” and several top Iowa GOP figures backed him.

Feenstra conceded late Tuesday night, saying in a speech surrounded by his family that the outcome “wasn’t what I wanted.”

Describing himself as a sixth-generation Iowan, Lahn owns a family farm and runs the agriculture, real estate and technology investment firm Homeplace Ventures. He previously worked for the conservative group Americans for Prosperity. He’s running on a populist-inflected platform that he branded “Iowa First” and has said he wants to boost local ownership of farmland, stem the flow of younger Iowans out of the state and address Iowa’s high cancer rate.

“I fear every day we are losing the Iowa we love,” Lahn said in his victory speech Tuesday, castigating out-of-state investors that he says “treat Iowa land like it’s a commodity instead of our inheritance.”

Lahn was endorsed last year by MAHA Action, a group founded by allies of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and he picked up support from the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action last week. He was also endorsed by former Rep. Steve King, who was known for incendiary comments about race before Feenstra ousted him in a 2020 primary.

Three other candidates also ran: former Iowa Department of Administrative Services Director Adam Steen, state Rep. Eddie Andrews and former state Rep. Brad Sherman.

Lahn will now face Sand, a two-term state auditor who defeated a GOP incumbent in 2018 after working in the state attorney general’s office.

Sand has focused his campaign on government accountability and faulted Republicans for the state’s economic issues, while pitching universal pre-K and criticizing a school voucher program introduced by GOP officials. He has also sought to cultivate a moderate image on social issues, as Republicans try to cast him as a liberal in centrist’s clothing.

In a campaign video late Tuesday, Sand said Republican voters are “welcome in this campaign,” adding that the state’s political system is “broken” and “all you would get with Zach Lahn it is more of the same.”

Once considered a swing state, Iowa has trended sharply red in recent years as Democrats increasingly struggle on rural Midwestern terrain. Mr. Trump won the state three times in a row, including by a 13-point margin in 2024, and GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds won reelection by 18 points four years ago. Iowa hasn’t elected a Democratic governor in two decades, and Sand is the only statewide elected Democrat, after he won reelection by fewer than 3,000 votes in 2022.

But Democrats are hopeful that a challenging political environment for Republicans, both nationally and in Iowa, could make them more competitive in the midwestern state. The Cook Political Report has rated the Iowa gubernatorial race a tossup, one of five states with that distinction this year, and the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics says the race leans red.

Reynolds — who has led the state since 2017 — has one of the lowest approval ratings of any governor nationwide. Iowa farmers also struggled last year after the trade war with China caused Beijing to cut American soybean imports, pushing down prices of one of Iowa’s most widely grown crops, and the war with Iran has caused a run-up in fuel and fertilizer prices.

Reynolds declined to run for reelection this year, setting up Iowa’s first gubernatorial election without an incumbent in the race since 2006.

Lahn lent his campaign $2 million last year, but is heading into the general election at a fundraising disadvantage. His campaign had just over $700,000 on hand as of mid-May, compared to nearly $18.3 million for the Sand campaign. Sand’s wife runs a sizable food and health products company founded by her family called the Lauridsen Group, and the Democrat’s campaign coffers have been bolstered by millions in contributions from his in-laws.

Sand raised about $9.7 million between the start of the year and mid-May, just over $3 million of which came from members of his wife’s family. Lahn raised just under $1 million.

Beyond the governor’s race, Iowa also has an open Senate contest after Ernst declined to seek reelection, drawing interest from Democrats, though Republicans likely have a sizable edge. Democrats are also heavily targeting two of Iowa’s four House seats, including the 1st District, where incumbent GOP Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks won by fewer than 1,000 votes in 2024.

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Elections live updates: Key races to watch in California, Iowa, Montana and New Jersey primaries

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June 2, 2026

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Elections live updates: Key races to watch in California, Iowa, Montana and New Jersey primaries

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In California, competition is fierce for the gubernatorial and Los Angeles mayoral nominations. Iowa, Montana and New Jersey have open U.S. Senate seats. In New Jersey, a silent congressman could lose his House seat.

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Iowa joins wave of states forcing porn sites to verify users’ ages

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June 2, 2026

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Iowa joins wave of states forcing porn sites to verify users’ ages

Beginning July 1, Iowans must verify they are adults to access porn websites.

Iowa will require porn websites to verify users are at least 18 under a new law signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

The Hawkeye State joins at least 25 other states, including Kansas and Nebraska, in requiring age verification for adult content in an effort to prevent minors from accessing it.

House File 864 is modeled after a Texas age verification law the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in a 6-3 decision in June. The measure will apply to websites or apps if at least one-third of their content is pornographic.

Beginning July 1, the law will require the websites to verify a user’s age using government-issued identification, financial documents or other documents that are “reliable proxies for age.” Age verification may also be performed by third parties or through any “commercially reasonable and reliable method.”

The law states websites and third parties “shall not retain, sell, lease or otherwise disseminate any identifying information of an individual subject to reasonable age verification unless retention or dissemination of the identifying information is required by law or a court order.”

It also requires third parties and websites to use “reasonable methods given the person’s scope of business to secure all data collected and transmitted” during the age verification process.

Under the new law, Iowa’s attorney general can sue companies in violation of the law. Violators could face fines up to $1,000 for each time an individual accesses a site in violation of the law. Civil penalties for providers are capped at $10,000 per day.

Iowa Senate lawmakers unanimously approved the measure while the House advanced it 82-2.

Rapid Response Politics Reporter Maya Marchel Hoff can be reached at mmarchelHoff@usatodayco.com. You can find her on X (formerly Twitter) at @mmarchelhoff.

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