It looks like Iowa (7-2, 1-1 Big Ten) has some good injury news ahead of tonight’s Cy-Hawk Series battle against No. 3 Iowa State (7-1).
Neither sophomore forward Seydou Traore or freshman forward Cooper Koch were listed for Iowa as out or questionable on the mandated Big Ten availability report prior to Thursday night’s contest against the Cyclones.
Traore suffered a bad ankle sprain on Nov. 26 against USC Upstate and hasn’t played since. Meanwhile, Koch has missed each of Iowa’s past three games for undisclosed reasons.
“Yeah, it’s just a bad sprain, so you just hope it’s a week or a few extra days rather than two, two and a half weeks, three weeks. You don’t know,” Iowa head men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery told the Hawkeye Radio Network of Traore’s injury following Iowa’s win over USC Upstate.
Iowa is more than two weeks beyond when Traore exited Carver-Hawkeye Arena with the ankle sprain against USC Upstate.
These would be big additions for the Hawkeyes against an Iowa State team that is thought to be one of the Big 12 and nation’s finest.
Traore is currently averaging 6.8 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game while shooting 41.9% from the field and 25.0% from 3-point range.
Koch averages 4.0 points and 2.2 rebounds per game on 50.0% field goal shooting and 44.4% from beyond the 3-point line.
Tipoff between Iowa and Iowa State is set for 6:30 p.m. CT from inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The game will be televised on FS1.
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