The Ohio State Buckeyes and Iowa Hawkeyes are playing live on the NCAA men's college basketball schedule on Tuesday and the game from Value City Arena starts up at 1 pm ET on ESPN2 and the WatchESPN website as the number 20 OSU Buckeyes host Iowa in a Big Ten conference game.
The Buckeyes come into the game after a win against Wright State and they will next play against Illinois as the conference schedule picks up. The team is 10-0 at home this season and 11-2 overall and they come in ranked in the top 25 this season. The team has some tough opponents on the conference schedule, including Michigan State, Michigan and Maryland as well as Wisconsin, who are ranked at number four right now.
The team has won two straight games and six of the last seven and now they head into conference play. This season the team ends with Wisconsin and they have the chance to step up in this conference, as Michigan and Michigan State have fallen out of the top 25 ranks right now and that gives the team an opening. Ohio State comes in averaging 85 points per game and they are ranked seventh in the nation in scoring and eighth in assists per game. The team is ranked fourth in field goal percentage and the defense has also played well, averaging nearly 10 steals per game.
D'Angelo Russell has played very well as a freshman for the Buckeyes and he is averaging 17 points per game this season and he is shooting over 45 percent from long range. Iowa comes in after a win against North Florida and they will next play against the Nebraska Cornhuskers on the schedule. The team comes in at 9-4 on the season and they are ranked 126th in scoring and they are 26th in rebounding overall this year. The defense has been very strong and they are ranked 40th in points allowed per game and 25th in blocks per game.
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