Ohio State vs Iowa College Basketball Betting Lines for the Big Ten Tournament

Ohio State vs Iowa College Basketball Betting Lines for the Big Ten Tournament

 

If either Ohio State or Iowa has any shot at an at-large NCAA Tournament bid, it can’t lose in the Big Ten quarterfinals on Thursday from Minneapolis, which hosts this event for the first time.

MyBookie College Basketball Betting & Expert Analysis Ohio State vs Iowa: Big Ten Tournament | Week 19 Basketball Lines. Both probably have to reach at least the final to get a bid … or just win it. It’s the final Big Ten Tournament of its kind with USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington joining the league next season.

 

How to Bet Ohio State vs. Iowa NCAA Basketball Odds & TV Info

When: Thursday, 6:30 PM ET
Where: Target Center, Minneapolis
TV: Big Ten Network
Stream: BTN+
Radio: Tunein.com
Opening NCAAB Lines: OSU -1 (total 155)

 

Ohio State vs Iowa Season Series

The teams met just once on Feb. 2 in Iowa City and the Hawkeyes prevailed 79-77. Trailing by two points with three seconds left, OSU’s Dale Bonner intentionally missed the second of two free throws, but neither team could corral the loose ball before time ran out and Iowa held on. In a game that featured 10 lead changes, Iowa’s largest lead was five points; Ohio State’s biggest lead was four. Tony Perkins led Iowa with 20 points. Jamison Battle led Ohio State with 17 points. The Hawkeyes have won four of the past six in the series.

Overall, this will be the 170th all-time meeting between the two teams and Iowa holds a slim 85-84 lead in the series. The overall point margin is also close as the Buckeyes have outscored Iowa by just 14 points.

 

Why Bet on Ohio State Buckeyes?

On Feb. 13, Ohio State lost at Wisconsin and fell to 14-11 overall and only 4-10 in the Big Ten. The next day, coach Chris Holtmann was fired and everything has changed under former Holtmann assistant Jake Diebler as OSU is 5-1 since, including shocking wins over No. 2 Purdue and Michigan State. The Buckeyes aren’t going to the NCAA Tournament unless they win the Big Ten Tournament but if they have a decent run, Diebler might get the full-time job when no one expected that.

Ohio State Last 5
@ Rutgers – W73-51
vs Michigan – W84-61
vs Nebraska – W78-69
@ Michigan State- W60-57
@ Minnesota – L88-79

In the regular-season finale, OSU played maybe its most complete game of the year in winning 73-51 at Rutgers, a very tough place to play, and never trailing. Ohio State’s lead grew as big as 27 as the Buckeyes sank half of their 48 shots from the floor, including 9 of 20 from 3-point distance. Dale Bonner knocked-down a pair of three-pointers to finish with nine points. Not normally noteworthy, but the Buckeyes improved to 11-2 when he makes a three-pointer this season.

The Buckeyes have shot over 50 percent in each of the last two games, marking just the second time that they’ve had back-to-back games of 50 percent shooting or better this season and the first since winning two games at the Emerald Coast Classic in November. OSU has won all four of its neutral site games this season.

Sophomore guard Bruce Thornton was named to the All-Big Ten Third Team by the media. Thornton led the Buckeyes in scoring through the regular season at 16.1 ppg, which was 11th in the conference. His assist-to-turnover ratio of 3.46 is tops in the conference and eighth nationally. Thornton is looking to become just the third Buckeye to have more than 100 assists and less than 50 turnovers in a season. This is the first All-Big Ten honor of his career. He earned Big Ten All-Tournament Team honors last year as a freshman.

Senior forward Jamison Battle was named Honorable Mention. He finished the regular season second in the Big Ten with 81 three-point field goals. That number is eighth in a single season in Ohio State history. Battle is also one of the most accurate three-point shooters in the country as his career-best 44.0 percent leads the league and is seventh nationally. He is second on the team in scoring at 14.4 ppg and has knocked-down 56-of-59 free throw attempts on the year.

Ohio State is the 10th seed in the Big Ten Tournament and no 10th seed has won it. Last year, the Buckeyes became the first No. 13 seed to reach the semifinals with three wins over Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan State. The Buckeyes are 33-18 all-time in Big Ten Tournament games and 15-7 in their opening game of the tournament. Ohio State has won four tournament titles, the last of which coming in 2013, and has made nine title game appearances.

This will be the fourth meeting in the Big Ten Tournament between Ohio State and Iowa. The Buckeyes are 2-1 all-time and are coming off a 73-69 win over the Hawkeyes in the second round of last year’s tournament.

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Why Bet on Iowa Hawkeyes?

Iowa is the No. 7 seed and no seventh seed has won the Big Ten Tournament. The Hawkeyes probably need a win here and then Friday vs. No. 2 seed Illinois to get in the NCAA Tournament. Iowa’s only two losses in its past six games are against the Illini, including 73-61 in the regular-season finale on Sunday.

Iowa Last 5
@ Illinois – L73-61
vs Northwestern – W87-80
vs Penn State – W90-81
@ Illinois- L95-85
@ Michigan State – W78-71

Junior Payton Sandfort led the Hawkeyes in the scoring column with 23 points. Sandfort converted on five 3-pointers to go along with seven rebounds. Sandfort eclipsed the 1,000-point mark after scoring his 10th point of the game. It was his third straight 20-point game, the first time in his career he has scored 20+ in three straight contests.

It was also Sandfort’s team-leading 10th 20-point game this season. Sandfort has made five or more 3-pointers in five games, four or more in 10 games, three or more in 15 games and two or more in 25 games. Sophomore Josh Dix rounded out the Hawkeyes in double digits. Dix scored 13 points as he shot 6-of-13 from the field. Dix grabbed four rebounds, dished out two assists and blocked a shot. He is averaging 19.3 points, shooting 62.7 percent (32-of-51) from the floor and 50 percent (8-of-16) from long range over his last four games.

Iowa forward Owen Freeman was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year by the media. Freeman has been the Big Ten’s best rookie, leading the league in rebounds (203), blocks (56) and double-doubles (5), while ranking second in steals (30) and field goal percentage (.636) and third in scoring. Freeman is averaging 10.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game.

He has been in double figures in 15 games with two 20-point contests. He earned nine Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors, which are the second-most all-time in conference history. Freeman has five double-doubles this season– the most by a Big Ten freshman and tied for the seventh-most by a freshman nationally. They are the most by a Hawkeye freshman since Melsahn Basabe (6) in 2010-11.

Senior Tony Perkins earned second-team All-Big Ten and Sandfort third team. Perkins ranks in the top 17 in the league in scoring (14.5), assists (4.9) and steals (1.7). He is one of seven players nationally to have 450+ points, 140+ assists, 130+ rebounds and 50+ steals. He has scored in double figures in 27 games with eight 20-point games. Sandfort has emerged as Iowa’s go-to scorer, leading the team in scoring (16.2 points) and rebounds (6.5). He has made a Big Ten-best 83 3-point field goals, while shooting 37.1 percent from distance.

Iowa has posted a 22-22 record in Big Ten Tournament games. The Hawkeyes earned tournament titles in 2001, 2006, and 2022 and lost in the title game in 2002. This marks the fourth time Iowa has been a No. 7 seed in the Big Ten Tournament (2000, 2005, 2017). The Hawkeyes have won at least one game as the No. 7 seed in two of the three tournaments and are 3-3 as the seventh seed all-time.

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Ohio State vs Iowa Expert Prediction

Iowa 77, Ohio State 76

 

2024 March Madness Schedule

Round City Venue Dates Host
First Four Dayton, Ohio UD Arena March 19 – 20 University of Dayton
First/Second Brooklyn. N.Y. Barclays Center March 22 -24 Atlantic 10 Conference
First/Second Charlotte, N.C. Spectrum Center March 21 – 23 University of North Carolina at Charlotte
First/Second Indianapolis Gainbridge Fieldhouse March 22 – 24 IUPUI / Horizon League
First/Second Omaha, Neb. CHI Health Center March 21 – 23 Creighton University
First/Second Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena March 21 -23 Duquesne University
First/Second Salt Lake City Vivint Smart Home Arena March 21 – 23 University of Utah
First/Second Spokane, Wash. Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena March 22 – 24 University of Idaho
First/Second Memphis, Tenn. FedExForum March 22 – 24 University of Memphis
East Regional Boston TD Garden March 28 – 30 Boston College
South Regional Dallas American Airlines Center March 29 -31 Big 12 Conference
Midwest Regional Detroit Little Caesars Arena March 29 – 31 University of Detroit Mercy / Oakland University
West Regional Los Angeles Crypto.com Arena March 28 – 30 Pepperdine University

 

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2024 Ohio State vs Iowa in Regular Season Betting Analysis
 

February 2, 2024

Neither Ohio State nor Iowa is an NCAA Tournament team as things stand but both are talented teams capable of making a run in the Big Ten Tournament. They meet for the lone time this regular season on Friday from Iowa City with the Hawkeyes as solid favorites on the NCAAB odds. 2024 NCAA Basketball Betting & Expert Analysis Ohio State vs Iowa | MyBookie Sportsbook Week 13 NCAAB

 

How to Bet Ohio State at Iowa NCAA Basketball Odds & TV Info

When: Friday, 7 PM ET
Where: Carver-Hawkeye Arena
TV: Fox Sports 1
Stream: Fox Sports Live
Radio: Tunein.com
Opening NCAAB Lines: Iowa -2 (total 82)

 

Series History

Last season, they played three times including the Big Ten Tournament and the Buckeyes won two of them. However, the Hawkeyes easily won the game in Iowa City, 92-75. Iowa trailed by one point with under three minutes left to play in the first half before four different Hawkeyes drilled triples to end the period on a 12-0 run and head into the locker room up 47-36. OSU never threatened after that. Amazingly, the teams have split 168 total meetings (84-84).

 

Why Bet on Ohio State Buckeyes?

The Buckeyes (13-8, 3-7) are in a major funk in losing three straight (second time this season) and six of seven and were fairly easily handled at home by No. 14 Illinois on Tuesday, 87-75. The Illini held a 41-34 lead at the break after hitting 7 of 10 in the final 6:32 of the first half. Ohio State went scoreless in the final 2:16 of that span. The Fighting Illini stretched their lead to 16 points in the second half and led double digits for the final 13:31. After OSU allowed Nebraska and Northwestern to hit a combined 53.3% of their three-point attempts in the previous two games, Illinois shot 51.7% from the field and 41.2% from distance.

Jamison Battle scored 21 points and Roddy Gayle Jr. had 20 for the Buckeyes. Battle leads the Big Ten in three-pointers made with 57 and is shooting a league-leading 44.2 percent from beyond the arc. He has also knocked-down his last 22 attempts from the free throw line.

Gayle was a bright spot as well. After scoring a career-high 32 points in an overtime win against West Virginia on Dec. 30, the sophomore had scored just 78 points in Ohio State’s next seven games (11.1) while shooting 32.5% (27 for 83) from the floor and a paltry 8.0% (2 for 25) from 3. Against the Fighting Illini, his 20 points came on mid-range jumpers, drives to the basket and free throws. Ohio State kept its rotations short on Tuesday, with only six players seeing the floor for more than 10 minutes. Freshman forward Devin Royal didn’t enter the game until less than seven minutes remained.

Since they won at Northwestern on New Year’s Day last year to improve to 10-3 overall, the Buckeyes have now gone 19-24 in their last 33 games. Illinois was the third consecutive team to top 83 points against Ohio State, which also has lost 14 straight road games entering Friday. After a win on Jan. 3 against Rutgers, the Buckeyes were averaging over 79 points per game. That was a 14-game sample. Over the last seven, they’ve hit the 79-point mark one time (win over Penn State).

“We need to be nastier,” Coach Chris Holtmann said. “We need to be much nastier. We need to play with more force.”

The Buckeyes are 12-2 this season when hitting the 70-point mark. Defensively, they are 8-0 when holding their opponent to fewer than 70 points and 5-8 when allowing 70 or more.

Holtmann is on the hottest seat in the Big Ten. Holtmann, in his 7th season at OSU, has never advanced past the first round of the NCAA Tournament. He makes roughly $2.3 million a year and would be owed the full remaining salary ($15 million) if he’s fired before April 1.

 

Why Bet on Iowa Hawkeyes?

Iowa (12-9, 4-6 Big Ten) lost for the third time in four games Tuesday, 74-68 at Indiana. The Hoosiers ended the game on an 8-0 run over the final 86 seconds. Defensively, they held the Big Ten’s highest scoring team to 17 points below their average. Iowa shot 35 percent from the field. Indiana entered having lost three of four and hadn’t beaten Iowa since Feb. 7, 2021.

Junior Payton Sandfort tied a career-high 26 points. Sandfort’s offense kept the Hawkeyes in the game in the first half, as he scored 14 of the team’s 28 first half points. In total, he shot 5-of-12 from downtown and 7-of-7 from the free throw line. Sandfort grabbed a team-high eight rebounds.

Senior Tony Perkins led a second-half comeback scoring 17 points after the break. Once trailing by 17 points, Iowa came back to tie the game at 49 with just over 10 minutes remaining. Sandfort gave Iowa the lead, 66-64, with under two minutes to play. A 3-pointer from Indiana’s Gabe Cupps gave the Hoosiers the lead that they would hold for the rest of the game.

“I was really proud of that, their effort,” Coach Fran McCaffrey said. “Their execution for the most part. They just kept coming. When you’re on the road and your behind it can get away from you. Especially in this building. We didn’t let it get away from us. That’s what the good teams do. Unfortunately, we didn’t finish it with a few more plays. But we’ll learn from that.”

Perkins finished the game with 22 points and has scored 20+ points in four consecutive games and is averaging 19.3 points over the past eight games. The last Hawkeye to post four consecutive 20-point games was Keegan Murray in the 2021-22 season. Perkins is currently the only player in the Big Ten (and one of eight nationally) with 300+ points, 80+ assists, 75+ rebounds and 35+ steals.

It was the Hawkeyes’ second game decided by seven or fewer points this season (0-2). The Hawkeyes shot a season-low 35.4 from the field and were out-rebounded, 45-32. Iowa finished the game with three turnovers – tied for the fewest turnovers in a game in the McCaffery era.

Even with that effort, Iowa is one the nation’s top offensive teams, averaging 84.4 points, second 11th nationally. The team has scored at least 84 points in 13 games, averaging 94.3 points in wins and 70.6 points in losses. The Hawkeyes are second in the Big Ten and rank sixth nationally, averaging 19 assists per game. Iowa is leading the nation with a 1.87 assist-to-turnover ratio.

 

Ohio State vs Iowa Expert Prediction

Iowa 79, Ohio State 75

 
Iowa vs #16 Ohio State, February 3, 2022
 

Iowa vs #16 Ohio State | Odds, Preview and Analysis College Basketball

Not long ago, Iowa looked like a lock NCAA Tournament team but now the Hawkeyes are probably on the bubble with a 14-7 overall record and 4-6 Big Ten mark as they visit No. 16 Ohio State in conference play on Thursday. The Buckeyes are favored on the NCAAB odds.

  • When: Thursday, 8 PM ET
  • Where: Value City Arena
  • TV: Fox Sports 1
  • Stream: Fox Sports Go
  • Radio: Tunein.com
  • Opening NCAAB Lines: Ohio State -5 (total 152.5)

Last Meeting

This is the only scheduled meeting of the season. Last season, they split two. The on in Columbus was a 73-57 Iowa upset win when the Hawkeyes were No. 9 and Buckeyes No. 4. Luka Garza had 24 points and pulling down 10 rebounds and Joe Weiskamp added 19 points — including 5-for-9 shooting from 3-point range. They are both gone now. E.J. Liddell had 15 points and Justice Sueing scored 10 for the Buckeyes. Liddell remains OSU’s star. Sueing is hurt.

The overall series is tied 82-82 between the two programs and the Buckeyes have outscored Iowa by just 26 points in the 164 meetings.

Why Bet on Iowa?

Iowa lost its second straight game Monday, 90-86 in double OT at Penn State. John Harrar scored a career-high 19 points with 10 rebounds, and Seth Lundy added 17 points and 11 rebounds to lead Penn State. The game featured 15 ties and 15 lead changes. Iowa opened the second overtime with a basket but did not make another field goal until Keegan Murray’s 3-pointer with 1.5 left.

It was Iowa’s first overtime contest of the season; Iowa’s first double overtime game since Feb. 8, 2017 (at Minnesota); and fourth overtime contest in the Iowa-Penn State series.

Murray, who scored all of his game-high 21 points in the second half and overtime sessions, tipped in a Jordan Bohannon missed 3-point field goal at the end of regulation to send the game into overtime.

Iowa’s starting guards Joe Toussaint and Jordan Bohannon combined to score two points on 0-for-11 shooting from the field. Toussaint totaled just under 19 minutes of action in the game and made his biggest contribution on the boards with five rebounds. Bohannon (1,848) is 11 points from tying and 12 points from surpassing Aaron White (1,859) for third place on Iowa’s all-time scoring chart.

Connor (4) and Patrick McCaffery (3) combined to make seven of Iowa’s 11 three-pointers. Both Connor and Patrick equaled career highs in 3-pointers made. Patrick tied season bests in scoring (16) and rebounding (7) Connor scored a season-high 12 points, netting all 12 in the first half. The redshirt senior entered the game with four 3-point field goals this season, he matched that total sinking 4-of-6 in the first half.

Connor left the game with four minutes remaining with an upper body injury and is not expected to play in this game. At first, the team was worried he separated his shoulder but it’s just a bad contusion.

“Right now I don’t think he can dribble. That would be a problem,” Coach Fran McCaffrey said. Fran McCaffery is also Connor’s dad.

Iowa can ill afford to lose one of its most-experienced players. McCaffery also had 6 rebounds and 3 steals in his 16 minutes of playing time vs. PSU. Others will have slack to pick up in his absence. The Hawkeyes are second in the country in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.82); third in fewest turnovers per game (8.9); and fourth in turnover margin (6.0).

Why Bet on Ohio State?

The Buckeyes (13-5) have been off since an 81-78 loss at No. 6 Purdue on Sunday. Jaden Ivey freed himself on the wing in front of the Boilermakers bench and delivered a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 0.6 seconds left. He scored 21 points and made 3 of 6 from beyond the arc after coming off the bench for the second straight game since missing one game with an injured hip flexor. Purdue had led 52-32 with 14:35 remaining.

Malaki Branham and star EJ Liddell each finished with 20 points to pace the Buckeyes. In addition to Branham’s 11 points in the second half, Liddell scored 14 of his 20 after the break, including the Buckeyes’ final seven points. Cedric Russell and Eugene Brown III each played well off the bench, scoring nine points apiece. Kyle Young had the crucial late steal that led to the tying bucket and also finished with seven points and two assists.

It was the Buckeyes’ fourth game this season decided by a bucket in the final seconds and the seventh game that featured a one-possession lead with less than 20 seconds to play in regulation.

Liddell is on a number of midseason watch lists, including the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25. Liddell is the only player in the country averaging 19.7 points, 7.5 rebounds, 2.7 blocks and 2.8 assists per game. Braham is the only other Buckeye averaging in double figures at 10.6.

Through the first 14 games of the season, the Buckeyes were averaging nearly 13 turnovers per game. Over the last four, OSU is averaging 7.3 per game including a season-low six in each of the last two.

Expert Prediction

  • Ohio State 80, Iowa 76
 
 
 
 

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