The Western Kentucky men's basketball team will begin play in this week’s Bad Boy Mowers Crossover Classic against Northern Iowa at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The game will air on ESPNU from the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Northern Iowa went 25-6 last season, won the Missouri Valley Conference regular-season title and finished with a NET ranking of 48.
WKU is 3-0 all-time against the Panthers, but the teams haven’t met since 1982. Rick Stansbury has never faced UNI as a head coach, but he was on the bench as an assistant for Texas A&M when the Aggies came back from 12 down with 35 seconds to go to beat the Panthers in the 2016 NCAA Tournament.