Overview
- Iowa beat Northwestern 76-70 on Feb. 8 behind Stirtz’s career-best 36, pushing the Hawkeyes to 18-5 overall and 8-4 in the Big Ten with a six-game conference streak.
- Stirtz shot 12-for-20 from the field, 4-for-6 from deep and 8-for-8 at the line, giving him at least 20 points in six straight games and a 26.2-point average during the run.
- The Big Ten named Stirtz Co-Player of the Week for the second consecutive week, an honor he shared with Indiana’s Lamar Wilkerson.
- Iowa’s run is its longest in league play since 2015-16, and despite no wins over ranked opponents in four tries the team sits No. 20 in the NET after largely handling unranked foes.
- Next up is Maryland on Feb. 11 at the XFINITY Center (5 p.m. CT on FS1), where Iowa seeks a seventh straight win after Stirtz scored 25 in the teams’ Dec. 6 meeting in Iowa City.