College of Northern Iowa
Furman
11/13/2025 9:43:00 AM | Males's Basketball
UNI takes on the Paladins for the primary time in 22 years on Friday evening. Tickets out there for buy.
UNI males’s basketball (2-0 / 0-0 MVC) vs. Furman (1-2 / 0-0 SoCon)
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — After a 2-0 begin to the 2025-26 season, the UNI males’s basketball continues its four-game homestand on Friday nights because the Panthers play host to the Furman Paladins contained in the McLeod Heart in non-conference motion.
Tip-off is scheduled for six p.m. CT with dwell protection ESPN+ with BJ Schaben and Kevin Lehman on the decision, in addition to the Panther Sports activities Radio Community (93.5 The Combine) with J.W. Cox and Kevin Boyle on the decision.
Single-game and season tickets for the 2025-26 males’s basketball common season may be bought on-line by the UNI Ticket Office, by calling 319-273-4849 or by electronic mail at tickets@uni.edu.
UNI will rejoice First Responder and Navy Appreciation Evening with free admission for any attendee who exhibits their first responder or navy ID on the ticket workplace. Followers are additionally inspired to put on black for the crew’s Black Out Recreation.
As a result of on-going Iowa Excessive College Athletic Affiliation’s (IHSAA) state soccer playoffs within the UNI-Dome followers are inspired to reach on the McLeod Heart early. The McLeod Heart car parking zone can be held for these with particular passes, whereas all UNI-Dome heaps can be open for attendees of each occasions.
Friday can be solely the second all-time assembly between the Panthers and Paladins, who final met in Cedar Falls in December of 2003 with Furman rising with a nine-point victory, 64-55. The sport will even see the return of former Panther Klint Carlson (2014-18), a member of the Furman teaching employees and two-time Missouri Valley Convention (MVC) Match champion who helped UNI attain the NCAA Match in 2015 and 2016.
Northern Iowa returns to motion after scoring a 65-58 dwelling win over South Dakota State on Sunday. Regardless of being outrebounded by the Jackrabbits by 16, Tristan Smith recorded a season-high 16 factors within the successful effort as Leon Bond III and Will Hornseth each contributed with double-digit scoring performances.
By way of two video games, the Panther protection has pressured 37 opposing turnovers (18.5 per recreation), second-most within the MVC behind Murray State (40 complete, 20 per recreation). UNI has additionally posted the league’s greatest scoring protection early with simply 57.5 factors allowed per recreation, surrendering simply 115 complete factors.. The Panthers additionally boast the MVC’s third-best three-point proportion protection (.256).
Campbell enters Friday’s contest with the Paladins anticipated to play in his 99th profession recreation and 66th consecutive begin, whereas additionally sitting 71 factors shy of turning into the newest member of this system’s 1,000 profession level membership.
UNI can be ranked eighth within the newest CollegeInsider.com Mid-Main top-25 rankings, considered one of eight MVC colleges to be both ranked or receiving votes.
SCOUTING FURMAN
The Paladins go to Cedar Falls after incomes their first win of the yr at dwelling in opposition to NAIA Columbia Worldwide. Furman opened the yr with losses to Excessive Level on the Subject of 68 Opening Day Marathon and at dwelling to Troy.
Led by ninth yr head coach Bob Richey, the Paladins had been picked second within the Southern Convention’s preseason ballot, narrowly ending behind Chattanooga. Ahead Cooper Bowser and guard Tom Home had been each named preseason all-conference.
Charles Johnson has been a pressure off the boards to start the season with 10.7 rebounds per recreation and seven.6 protection rebounds a recreation, main the SoCon in each classes. Alex Wilkins leads Furman with 17.7 factors per recreation, with Johnston averaging a double-double with 10.3 factors and ten factors a recreation from Asa Thomas.
UNI males’s basketball motion may be adopted all season lengthy on social media on Fb (UNI Men’s Basketball), X (@UNImbb) and on Instagram (@uni_basketball). Schedule and roster data, together with the newest Panther information and data may be discovered on-line at UNIpanthers.com.
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