The #8 Iowa Hawkeyes are facing Indiana tomorrow in a rematch of an 81-69 IU victory from a couple weeks ago. If you’re looking for a preview/venty column, you can find it here. In this space, we have a weird idiosyncrasy to analyze at this late-ish hour: college basketball on Super Bowl Sunday.
When the Big Ten basketball schedule came out, I was immediately drawn to many things but one which caught my eye and was stored away into a lockbox was the game ahead of the Super Bowl. Iowa played Illinois last year before the big game so it felt weird for them to play another game on the arguably the biggest sports day of the calendar with little regard to college basketball.