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Xavier-Iowa men’s basketball glance: Time/TV/game info (Nov. 14, 2025)
Reeling after getting routed by Santa Clara, Richard Pitino’s Musketeers come to Carver
Nov. 13, 2025 10:45 am, Updated: Nov. 13, 2025 11:27 am
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What: Xavier (2-1) at Iowa (2-0), men’s basketball
When/where: Friday, 7 p.m., Carver-Hawkeye Arena
TV: FS1 (Jake Eisenberg, Nick Bahe)
Livestream: Fox Sports Live
Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates (Jon Swisher, Bob Hansen)
Series: Iowa leads, 2-1.
Iowa’s next game: Southeast Missouri State in Iowa City, Tuesday at 7:30
What to know: It’s Iowa’s first game against a team from one of the power conferences, Xavier of the Big East.
The Hawkeyes are a week between games, having beaten Western Illinois last Friday, 77-58. Their two-game statistics are pretty shiny right now, with 56.7 percent field goal shooting, 42.5 percent 3-point shooting, and just 18 turnovers to their opponents’ 37.
Iowa’s Bennett Stirtz has 13 assists to four turnovers in addition to his 21.5 points per game. Forward Alvaro Folgueiras is tied with Stirtz in steals with six and is second on the team in assists with eight.
Xavier has been to the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight three times since Iowa’s last appearance. The Musketeers went 22-12 last season and reached the NCAA tournament, but they’re in rebuilding mode.
Xavier started this season with a 66-62 win over Marist and a 74-69 victory over LeMoyne. Monday in Cincinnati, they got rocked by Santa Clara, 87-68, after trailing by as much as 30 points.
“Everything went wrong,” Xavier Coach Richard Pitino said. “There was nothing right. We gotta get back to work in every phase of it.
“They're big, talented, physical,” said Iowa Coach Ben McCollum. “They're a lot better than their last score indicated. ... They'll make some serious adjustments, I'm assuming, and we're going to have our hands full.”
Sean Miller left Xavier after last season to become the coach at Texas. Enter Pitino, who coached Minnesota from 2013 until he was fired in 2021. He was at New Mexico the last four seasons where he coached the Lobos to the last two NCAA tourneys. They finished first in the Mountain West Conference last season.
Xavier has a player named All Wright. His brother, Always Wright, plays at Texas Rio Grande Valley. Their father’s name is Joe Wright.
This game is part of a two-game series. Iowa will play at Xavier next season.
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