The Iowa basketball team has not won the Big Ten Conference regular season title since 1979 but the fifth ranked Hawkeyes could take a big step toward ending that dry spell, tonight, when they visit Indiana. The Hawkeyes have sole possession of the league lead with a 10-1 record and visit a Hoosier team that is a game back at 9-2. Defense will be a key. Indiana averages 84 points per game and is shooting 51 percent from the field.

The Hoosiers are 13-0 at home this season. Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery says Indiana’s Yogi Ferrell is one of the top point guards in the country and sets the table for his teammates. Iowa won in covincing fashion last year in Bloomington 77-63 but McCaffery says that will have no factor on this game.

It will be an 8:05 p.m. tip off in Assembly Hall. You can hear the game on KJAN, beginning at 7-p.m.

(Learfield Sports)