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Panther men’s hoops hosts first-place Bradley in Sunday matinee
1/31/2025 3:49:00 PM | Men's Basketball
UNI set to battle the Braves during annual Hope Always Game. Tickets available for purchase.
UNI men's basketball (13-9 / 7-4 MVC) vs. Bradley (18-4 / 9-2 MVC)
- 3 p.m. CT | Feb. 2, 2025
- McLeod Center (6,650) | Cedar Falls, Iowa
- ESPN2/ESPN+ (Clay Matvick: Play-by-Play / Kevin Lehman: 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 begins the month of February with a critical Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) test on Sunday afternoon as it hosts the league-leading Bradley Braves inside the McLeod Center.
Tip-off is scheduled for 3 p.m. CT at the Knapp Center, with live coverage available on ESPN2 with a simulcast available on ESPN+, as well as the Panther Sports Radio Network with J.W. Cox and Kevin Boyle on the call.
Tickets for Sunday's game can be purchased online through the UNI Ticket Office, by calling 319-273-4849 or by email at tickets@uni.edu.
Fans are also encouraged to wear pink as part of the team's annual Hope Always Game in support of the fight against cancer. This year, the Panthers are also collecting donations of pantry items for the American Cancer Society's Russell and Ann Gerdin Hope Lodge in Iowa City.
The Panthers will look for consecutive wins against the Braves for the first time since the 2019-20 and 2020-21 season, having won the previous matchup in Cedar Falls last February. Bradley holds a narrow 39-36 lead in the all-time series.
Entering the final full month of the regular season, Northern Iowa sits just two games back of the first-place Braves, who are tied with Drake atop the MVC standings at 9-2 in league play. UNI returns home after a tough 66-52 road loss at Drake on Wednesday night, when it struggled to defend the three-point line against the Bulldogs and gave up 21 points on 14 turnovers.
Tytan Anderson finished Wednesday's game with a team-high 16 points and five rebounds, with Trey Campbell tallying ten points. Both Cael Schmitt and Max Weisbrod posted seven points each in the loss, as Ben Schwieger finished with six points and a team-high six assists.
Northern Iowa continues to maintain a hot shooting hand this season, ranking seventh in all of Division I with a 49.9% shooting clip, shooting over 50% in ten of its 22 games this year. UNI is also 21st nationally in effective field goal percentage (56.5%).
Anderson, the MVC's leader in made free throws (101) and attempts (142) who also looks to continue climbing the program's top-ten all-time steals list, leads UNI with 14.7 points per game and a team-high 6.4 rebounds a game on 57.2% shooting. Anderson is also nine 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.
Jacob Hutson has notched 11.7 points and 3.9 rebounds, while Campbell has posted 10.8 points and a team-high 65 assists. Schwieger, who is three points shy of his 500th career point, has put up 9.4 points and 4.3 boards per game as a starter in the Panther lineup in the last 14 contests. Will Hornseth, meanwhile,is shooting at a high percentage in his freshman season, posting a 71.4% clip on 50-of-70 shooting, currently on pace to set a new single-season field goal percentage record.
SCOUTING BRADLEY
The Braves make their annual trip to the McLeod Center amid another hot start to the season, winning 18 of its first 22 games. Bradley struggled in its last outing on Wednesday at home in a 93-70 loss to UIC.
Led by tenth year head coach Brian Wardle, the Braves were picked as the MVC's preseason favorite to win the league's regular season title this year, with Duke Deen as the MVC Preseason Player of the Year, earning preseason all-conference honors along with Darius Hannah and Zek Montgomery.
Bradley has been highly effective from beyond the arc, ranking second nationally with a 39.9% shooting clip. The Braves are also tenth in Division I in both free throw percentage (78.7%) and effective field goal percentage (57.4%).
Deen leads the Braves with 13.8 points a game with Montgomery posting 13.7 points and Hannah tallying 12.1 points per contest. Deen notably also leads the MVC on the season with 166 three-point attempts.
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.
