Ohio State 72-69 Iowa (Mar 12, 2026) Final Score

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Iowa HawkeyesIOWA

69–72

Final

Ohio State BuckeyesOSU

Team Season Averages

Iowa HawkeyesLeads 1 of 4

Ohio State BuckeyesLeads 3 of 4

Offense

49.1%Field goal percentage49.5%

Defense

62.9Points allowed per game73.5

3-Point

35.4%Three-point percentage36.3%
76.9%Free throw percentage77.5%

Highlighted values lead the matchup; for points allowed, turnovers and similar stats, lower is better.

Odds

Sportsbook	Spread (OSU)	Total	IOWA ML	OSU ML
FFanDuel	-1.5	140.5	-108	-111
BBetMGM	—	141.5	-120	+100
CCaesars	+1	141.5	-115	-105
BBetRivers	-0.5	140.5	-114	-109
FFanatics	+1	140.5	-110	-110
KKalshi	-17.5	155.5	-100	-100
PPolymarket	+1.5	139.5	-102	+102

Game Information

Venue to be announced

Stadium

Mar 12, 2026

12:00 PM EDT

Gametime weather

Conditions pending

Rankings

Team	Overall	Offense	Defense	Rebound	3-Point
IOWA	20th	170th	4th	325th	89th
OSU	49th	72nd	62nd	245th	44th

Matchup

IOWAOSU

32Games played31
1 (B2B)Rest days4

Scores

Team	H1	H2	T
IOWA	30	39	69
OSU	34	38	72

Team Stats

IOWAStatOSU

69Points72
22-44 (50.0%)FG26-47 (55.3%)
10-21 (47.6%)3PT6-20 (30.0%)
15-19 (78.9%)FT14-19 (73.7%)
22Rebounds20
16Assists17
5Steals3
2Blocks0
8Turnovers9

Player Stats

IOWA

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	3PT	FT	+/-
Bennett StirtzG	39	17	1	4	0	1	3	6/11	2/5	3/4	—
Cam ManyawuF	22	9	1	1	2	0	2	4/5	0/0	1/2	—
Tavion BanksG	19	9	3	0	0	1	1	3/6	1/1	2/2	—
Tate SageG	18	8	2	0	0	0	0	1/4	1/1	5/6	—
Cooper KochF	27	8	1	1	1	0	0	3/5	2/3	0/0	—
Alvaro FolgueirasF	23	8	6	3	0	0	0	2/4	2/4	2/3	—
Isaia HowardG	18	5	4	1	0	0	2	2/4	1/3	0/0	—
Kael CombsG	20	3	3	2	1	0	0	1/3	1/2	0/0	—
Trevin JirakC	5	2	1	2	0	0	0	0/1	0/1	2/2	—
Jacob KochG	0:00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	—
Joey MatteoniF	0:00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	—
Trey ThompsonF	0:00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	—
Brendan HausenG	10	0	0	2	1	0	0	0/1	0/1	0/0	—
Peyton McCollumG	0:00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	—

OSU

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	TO	FG	3PT	FT	+/-
Bruce ThorntonG	38	24	6	3	0	1	10/14	2/4	2/2	—
Christoph TillyC	29	16	4	2	1	3	5/6	0/0	6/9	—
John Mobley Jr.G	37	12	2	3	0	2	3/9	3/8	3/4	—
Amare BynumF	37	11	4	4	0	1	5/10	0/3	1/2	—
Devin RoyalF	26	6	2	2	2	0	2/4	0/1	2/2	—
Gabe CuppsG	4	3	0	0	0	0	1/2	1/2	0/0	—
Colin WhiteF	3	0	0	0	0	0	0/1	0/1	0/0	—
Myles HerroG	0:00	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	—
Brandon NoelF	0:00	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	—
Braylen NashG	0:00	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	—
Puff JohnsonG	0:00	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	—
Ivan NjegovanC	11	0	2	1	0	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	—
Josh OjianwunaF	0:00	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	—
Taison ChatmanG	13	0	0	2	0	2	0/1	0/1	0/0	—
Mathieu GrujicicG	0:00	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	—

Scoring Summary

88 events · 78 scoring

1st Half

19:05IOWA
Tavion Banks makes 24-foot three point jumper (Kael Combs assists)
3-0
18:40OSU
Devin Royal makes driving layup (John Mobley Jr. assists)
3-2
17:02IOWA
Bennett Stirtz makes 10-foot step back jumpshot (Cooper Koch assists)
5-2
16:27IOWA
Kael Combs makes 24-foot three point jumper (Bennett Stirtz assists)
8-2
16:04OSU
Christoph Tilly makes free throw 1 of 2
8-3
16:04OSU
Christoph Tilly makes free throw 2 of 2
8-4
14:48OSU
Devin Royal makes free throw 1 of 2
8-5
14:48OSU
Devin Royal makes free throw 2 of 2
8-6
13:49IOWA
Bennett Stirtz makes driving layup
10-6
11:42IOWA
Tavion Banks makes 12-foot turnaround jump shot
12-6
11:23OSU
Christoph Tilly makes free throw 2 of 2
12-7
10:47OSU
Christoph Tilly makes layup (Bruce Thornton assists)
12-9
10:24IOWA
Tate Sage makes free throw 1 of 2
13-9
10:06OSU
Bruce Thornton makes driving layup
13-11
9:20IOWA
Bennett Stirtz makes 5-foot floating jump shot (Kael Combs assists)
15-11
8:37IOWA
Bennett Stirtz makes 29-foot three point jumper
16-11
8:18OSU
Amare Bynum makes 1-foot dunk
16-13
7:50OSU
Christoph Tilly makes layup (John Mobley Jr. assists)
16-15
7:24IOWA
Tate Sage makes free throw 1 of 2
17-15
7:24IOWA
Tate Sage makes free throw 2 of 2
18-15
6:59OSU
Amare Bynum makes 1-foot dunk (Christoph Tilly assists)
18-17
6:38IOWA
Cooper Koch makes layup (Alvaro Folgueiras assists)
20-17
6:05OSU
Amare Bynum makes 1-foot dunk (John Mobley Jr. assists)
20-19
5:10OSU
Amare Bynum makes layup (Bruce Thornton assists)
20-21
4:10IOWA
Trevin Jirak makes free throw 1 of 2
21-21
4:10IOWA
Trevin Jirak makes free throw 2 of 2
22-21
3:39OSU
Gabe Cupps makes 26-foot three point jumper (Devin Royal assists)
22-24
2:44IOWA
Isaia Howard makes 25-foot three point jumper (Trevin Jirak assists)
25-24
2:28OSU
Bruce Thornton makes 7-foot floating jump shot
25-26
2:28OSU
Bruce Thornton makes free throw 1 of 1
25-27
1:56OSU
Christoph Tilly makes free throw 1 of 2
25-28
1:56OSU
Christoph Tilly makes free throw 2 of 2
25-29
1:28OSU
Christoph Tilly makes free throw 1 of 2
25-30
1:05IOWA
Cooper Koch makes 24-foot three point jumper
28-30
0:45OSU
Christoph Tilly makes 1-foot dunk (Bruce Thornton assists)
28-32
0:20IOWA
Bennett Stirtz makes layup (Trevin Jirak assists)
30-32
0:03OSU
Bruce Thornton makes driving layup (John Mobley Jr. assists)
30-34

2nd Half

18:43IOWA
Cam Manyawu makes layup (Kael Combs assists)
32-34
18:17OSU
Christoph Tilly makes driving layup (Devin Royal assists)
32-36
17:33OSU
Bruce Thornton makes 5-foot floating jump shot
32-38
16:56IOWA
Cam Manyawu makes free throw 2 of 2
33-38
16:40OSU
John Mobley Jr. makes 23-foot three point jumper (Amare Bynum assists)
33-41
16:06IOWA
Tavion Banks makes free throw 1 of 2
34-41
16:06IOWA
Tavion Banks makes free throw 2 of 2
35-41
15:53OSU
Bruce Thornton makes 8-foot floating jump shot (Taison Chatman assists)
35-43
15:50OSU
Bruce Thornton makes free throw 1 of 1
35-44
15:08OSU
Bruce Thornton makes 17-foot pullup jump shot
35-46
14:25OSU
Bruce Thornton makes driving layup
35-48
13:55OSU
Bruce Thornton makes 23-foot three point jumper (Taison Chatman assists)
35-51
13:23IOWA
Tate Sage makes 24-foot three point jumper (Alvaro Folgueiras assists)
38-51
12:07IOWA
Cam Manyawu makes 1-foot dunk (Brendan Hausen assists)
40-51
11:37OSU
Bruce Thornton makes 24-foot three point jumper (Amare Bynum assists)
40-54
11:26IOWA
Bennett Stirtz makes 25-foot three point jumper (Cam Manyawu assists)
43-54
11:06OSU
John Mobley Jr. makes 26-foot three point jumper (Christoph Tilly assists)
43-57
10:33OSU
Amare Bynum makes free throw 2 of 2
43-58
10:07IOWA
Cam Manyawu makes layup (Brendan Hausen assists)
45-58
9:29IOWA
Bennett Stirtz makes 12-foot pullup jump shot
47-58
8:54IOWA
Cam Manyawu makes driving layup (Bennett Stirtz assists)
49-58
8:09IOWA
Tate Sage makes free throw 1 of 2
50-58
8:09IOWA
Tate Sage makes free throw 2 of 2
51-58
7:54OSU
John Mobley Jr. makes free throw 1 of 2
51-59
7:29IOWA
Alvaro Folgueiras makes free throw 1 of 2
52-59
7:29IOWA
Alvaro Folgueiras makes free throw 2 of 2
53-59
6:58OSU
Christoph Tilly makes driving layup (Amare Bynum assists)
53-61
6:11OSU
John Mobley Jr. makes 24-foot three point jumper (Amare Bynum assists)
53-64
6:02IOWA
Bennett Stirtz makes free throw 1 of 2
54-64
5:10OSU
Bruce Thornton makes 14-foot floating jump shot
54-66
4:50IOWA
Isaia Howard makes 0-foot tip in layup
56-66
4:04IOWA
Cooper Koch makes 25-foot three point jumper (Isaia Howard assists)
59-66
3:41OSU
Amare Bynum makes 1-foot dunk (Ivan Njegovan assists)
59-68
3:33IOWA
Alvaro Folgueiras makes 29-foot three point jumper (Bennett Stirtz assists)
62-68
2:23OSU
Devin Royal makes driving layup
62-70
2:11IOWA
Alvaro Folgueiras makes 24-foot three point jumper (Bennett Stirtz assists)
65-70
1:22IOWA
Tavion Banks makes 2-foot dunk (Alvaro Folgueiras assists)
67-70
0:38IOWA
Bennett Stirtz makes free throw 1 of 2
68-70
0:38IOWA
Bennett Stirtz makes free throw 2 of 2
69-70
0:08OSU
John Mobley Jr. makes free throw 1 of 2
69-71
0:08OSU
John Mobley Jr. makes free throw 2 of 2
69-72
0:03IOWA
Foul on Tavion Banks.
69-72
0:03OSU
Christoph Tilly misses free throw 1 of 1
69-72
0:03IOWA
Alvaro Folgueiras Defensive Rebound.
69-72
0:03OSU
Foul on Amare Bynum.
69-72
0:01IOWA
Alvaro Folgueiras misses free throw 1 of 1
69-72
0:00IOWA
Isaia Howard Offensive Rebound.
69-72
0:00IOWA
Isaia Howard misses 25-foot three point jumper
69-72
0:00IOWA
Iowa Offensive Rebound.
69-72
0:00
End of 2nd half
69-72
0:00
End of Game
69-72

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