March 22, 2026, 11:20 a.m. CT<\/p>\n
After a thrilling 67-61 first-round win<\/a> over eighth-seeded Clemson<\/a>, No. 9 seed Iowa (22-12, 10-10 Big Ten) gets its toughest test of the season against top-seeded Florida<\/a> (27-7, 16-2 SEC) in the second round of March Madness in the South Region on Sunday.<\/p>\n The Hawkeyes<\/a> meet the defending national champion Gators from inside Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, Fla., with a berth in Iowa’s first Sweet 16 since 1999 on the line. Iowa’s win over Clemson was its first in the NCAA Tournament since 2021.<\/p>\n Senior point guard Bennett Stirtz led Iowa with 16 points, but the Hawkeyes’ biggest star shot just 4-of-17 from the field. Iowa needs Stirtz to deliver his finest if the Hawkeyes are to spring the NCAA Tournament’s biggest upset so far.<\/p>\n Watch Iowa vs. Florida<\/a><\/p>\n Iowa junior guard Kael Combs and junior forward Alvaro Folgueiras authored key performances in the Hawkeyes’ win over the Tigers. Combs finished with 15 points and Folgueiras added 14.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n As tipoff against the Gators approaches, here’s where and when Hawkeye fans can watch Iowa basketball against Florida:<\/p>\n Where to watch Iowa basketball vs. Florida in March Madness<\/p>\n TV: TBS<\/p>\n Tipoff time: 6:10 p.m. CT<\/p>\n Date: Sunday, March 22<\/p>\n Tom McCarthy (play-by-play), Dan Bonner (color) and AJ Ross (sideline) will have the call for TBS.<\/p>\n Where to stream Iowa basketball vs. Florida in NCAA Tournament<\/p>\n Live stream: Watch on Sling<\/a>\u00a0(Regional restrictions may apply)<\/p>\n Contact\/Follow us\u00a0@HawkeyesWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes and opinions.\u00a0Follow Josh on X:\u00a0@JoshOnHawks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 22, 2026, 11:20 a.m. CT After a thrilling 67-61 first-round win over eighth-seeded Clemson, No. 9 seed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,28,30,29,92762,22151,8913,53649,22833,339,39,35033,92595,343,9563,22987,4819,3644,49,14013,9811,300,34],"class_list":["post-201590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-accessfree","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-sstssportscollegehawkeyesmens-basketball","tag-sstsnmens-basketball","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagbig-ten-conference-mens-basketball","tag-tagcollege-basketball","tag-tagcontains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","tag-tagflorida","tag-tagiowa-hawkeyes","tag-tagiowa-hawkeyes-mens-basketball","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagncaa-big-ten-conference","tag-tagncaa-mens-basketball-tournament","tag-tagncaa-southeastern-conference","tag-tagonline-video","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsec-conference-mens-basketball","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}