Start Times/TV Schedule Announced for Iowa MBB

IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa, in conjunction with the Big Ten Conference, announced Tuesday start times and television information for men’s basketball games for the 2026-27 season.

Thirty of Iowa’s 32 regular season games will be televised. The Hawkeyes will appear on BTN 11 times, FS1 nine times, Peacock/NBCSN five times, FOX twice and CBS and TNT once. 

Iowa will play five Saturday early afternoon home games inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena.  The Nov. 15 neutral site game in Des Moines, Iowa, will begin at 2 p.m. (CT), while neutral site contests against Virginia Tech (Nov. 10) in Sioux City and Alabama (Dec. 21) in Des Moines will tip at 6 p.m. 

Iowa will appear on CBS on Feb. 16 when the team travels to Ann Arbor to face Michigan, the defending National Champion.  The Nov. 20 road contest at Xavier will be on televised on TNT.

The Hawkeyes will be on FOX for games at UCLA (Feb. 6) and at Illinois (March 6).  Iowa’s Jan. 16 game at Nebraska will be televised either on FOX or FS1.

The team will play on FS1 nine times for neutral site games against Virginia Tech (Nov. 10) and  Creighton (Nov. 15), Indiana (Dec. 7), Iowa State (Dec. 10), Wisconsin (Jan. 6), Maryland (Jan. 9), at Ohio State (Jan. 26), at Northwestern (Feb. 13) and at Wisconsin (Feb. 24).

Iowa will appear on NBC’s Peacock/NBCSN five times – at Purdue (Dec. 1), vs. Alabama (Dec. 21), Ohio State (Jan. 2), Nebraska (Jan. 30) and Michigan State (Feb. 16).

Two nonconference home games against UMBC (Nov. 24) and Prairie View A&M (Nov. 28) along with the exhibition contest on Oct. 27 will be streamed on B1G+.