SE Missouri State-Iowa men’s basketball glance: Time/TV/game info (Nov. 18, 2025)

What: Southeast Missouri State (1-3) at Iowa (3-0), men’s basketball

When/where: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Carver-Hawkeye Arena

TV: BTN (Cory Provus, Jess Settles)

Livestream: Fox Sports Live

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates (Jon Swisher, Bob Hansen)

Series: Iowa leads, 2-0.

Iowa’s next game: Chicago State in Iowa City, Thursday at 6 p.m.

What to know: Iowa begins a stretch of two games in three days with a week that looks considerably easier than what awaits next week when it goes to Palm Springs, Calif., to play Mississippi and either Utah or Grand Canyon.

Iowa is coming off an 81-62 win over Xavier. The Hawkeyes are shooting 56.8 percent, which ranked fifth in the nation through Sunday’s games. They have shot 50 percent or better in each of the six halves they’ve played. Guard Bennett Stirtz, who averages 21.3 points with 58.8 percent shooting.

So far, the Hawkeyes haven’t had to sweat. Their three wins have been by an average of 23.3 points with none closer than 19.

This doesn’t figure to be too different Tuesday since Southeast Missouri State has lost three of its four games, the most-recent one an 84-72 home defeat to St. Thomas. However, the Redhawks did push Missouri hard on Nov. 7 before falling, 89-84.

“They borderline had Mizzou beat,” Iowa Coach Ben McCollum said Monday, “and then Mizzou turned around and beat Minnesota by 25 (83-60).

SEMO led Missouri at halftime in Columbia, 51-46. That wasn’t the case against St. Thomas Saturday in Cape Girardeau, when the Redhawks were behind by 12 points at halftime and lost by that much.

Iowa beat SEMO 106-75 at Carver in 2022. Filip Rebraca scored 30 points for the Hawkeyes. He now plays professionally in Serbia.

Touted freshman Trey Thompson has yet to play for Iowa. The fact Thompson reclassified to the recruiting class of 2025 and didn’t commit to Iowa until July put him behind his teammates.

“That’s a tricky one,” said McCollum, “because Trey is really good and just because he's a highly recruited kid, he came here specifically to be able to play. And sometimes kids develop quicker in regards to the system than others do.

He's got a great attitude. He's got a great personality. He's going to be one that will really help, just because of his personality, so good. Really help us get going and win and build this thing the right way.“

Iowa assistant coach Connor Wheeler spent two seasons as an assistant coach at SEMO under current head coach Brad Korn. Wheeler joined Iowa Coach Ben McCollum at Drake before the start of last season.

“I saw him at Atlanta at an Under Armour event,” McCollum said. “I think he said ‘Hey Coach, I’m Connor Wheeler,’ and I said ‘OK, Connor.’ And I talked to him for a total of 35 seconds, but I got a good vibe. I liked the vibe, called his head coach. Coach said good things about him, then I hired him. So that’s kind of how I do things.

“I could talk to someone 150 times and not hire them and I could talk to somebody once and it just felt good. That’s just kind of how I operate. It’s a lot on feel.”