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UNI men’s basketball squares off with Missouri State on Tuesday night
1/20/2025 11:23:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Panthers welcome the Bears to McLeod Center in league play. Tickets available for purchase.
UNI men's basketball (11-8 / 5-3 MVC) vs. Missouri State (7-12 / 0-8 MVC)
- 7 p.m. CT | Jan. 21, 2025
- Cedar Falls, Iowa | McLeod Center (6,650)
- ESPN+ (Brad Wells: Play-by-Play / Matt Schniederman: Analyst)
- Panther Sports Radio Network (J.W. Cox: Play-by-Play / Kevin Boyle: Analyst)
- LIVE STATS
- TICKETS
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa --- The UNI men's basketball team will conclude its home schedule for the month of January on Tuesday night as the Panthers play host to the Missouri State Bears in Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) action.
Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. CT at the McLeod Center, with live coverage available on ESPN+, as well as the Panther Sports Radio Network with J.W. Cox and Kevin Boyle on the call.
Tickets can be purchased online through the UNI Ticket Office, by calling 319-273-4849 or by email at tickets@uni.edu.
This will be the 89th all-time meeting between the Panthers and Bears with Missouri State holding a narrow 46-42 lead in the series and UNI having won the last three matchups. It will also mark the Bears' final regular season trip to Cedar Falls as an MVC member ahead of their transition to Conference USA this summer.
The Panthers, currently sitting in a tie for fourth place in the MVC standings with UIC, will look to keep pace with the first-place Bradley Braves after a tough 73-49 loss at Southern Illinois on Saturday night. UNI was held to just 32.1% shooting and 28.6% from three-point range with Trey Campbell, Tytan Anderson and Max Weisbrod all leading with nine points each. Graduate guard Cael Schmitt also made his UNI and Division I debut on Saturday after missing the first 18 games of the year due to a knee injury.
Despite a difficult shooting performance, the Panthers continue to maintain a hot shooting hand this season, ranking sixth in all of Division I with a 50.3% shooting clip, shooting over 50% in ten of its 19 games this year. UNI is also 19th nationally in effective field goal percentage (56.9%).
Anderson, the MVC's leader in made free throws (84) and attempts (120) who also looks to continue climbing the program's top-ten all-time steals list, leads UNI with 14.4 points per game and a team-high 6.3 rebounds a game on 56.5% shooting. Anderson is also 14 assists away from becoming just the fourth player in program history to record 1,000 points, 700 rebounds and 200 assists in a UNI career, looking to join Seth Tuttle (2011-15), Eric Coleman (2004-08) and Don Lemons (1975-79) in an elite club of Panther players.
Hutson has notched 11.7 points and 3.5 rebounds, while Campbell has posted 11.3 points and a team-high 55 assists. Leon Bond III has tallied 10.7 points and five rebounds a game in his first season with Northern Iowa with a 56.2% shooting clip, as Ben Schwieger, who is 30 points shy of his 500th career point, has put up 9.5 points and 4.4 boards per game as a starter in the the Panther lineup in the last ten contests. Will Hornseth, meanwhile, is shooting at a high percentage in his freshman season, posting a 72.9% clip on 43-of-59 shooting.
SCOUTING MISSOURI STATE
Missouri State makes its final regular season trip to Cedar Falls as an MVC member amid a seven-game skid, most recently falling at Illinois State on Saturday, 74-68. The Bears are the only team in the league without a conference victory this season.
Led by head coach Cuonzo Martin, in the first year of his second coaching stint with the Bears, MSU was picked 11th in this year's MVC preseason poll.
The Bears rank second in the league with 11.3 offensive rebounds per game and 13.8 turnovers forced a game. Missouri State is also third in the MVC in free throw attempts per game (21.5) and steals per game (7.8)
Dez White leads the Bears with a 15.8 points per game scoring average, with Vincent Brady II posting 13.8 points and Michael Osei-Bonsu 10.3 points a game. Osei-Bonsu is also second in the league with three offensive boards a game, while White has taken the second-most three-point attempts in the conference (128).
UNI men's basketball action can be followed all season long on social media on Facebook (UNI Men's Basketball), X (@UNImbb) and on Instagram (@uni_basketball). The full 2024-25 schedule and roster, along with the latest Panther news and information can be found online at UNIpanthers.com.
