I rate this conference (Big 10) as one of the strongest- if not the strongest in the nation, and these two teams Michigan and Iowa are two of the better teams in the country. Michigan has been consistently strong in conference play while Iowa has struggled of late losing 3 of their L/5 including a staunchly contested 76-69 loss against Ohio State in their last trip to the hardwood. Michigan won its last time out , smashing Nebraska by a 79-50 count. Iowa needs to force Nik Stauskas of Michigan to play in a tough position, which is always a challenege, he has been lights out for quite some time now. Michigan can make adjustments in a game to take teams out of what they want to do. Michigan has an amazing deep ball team, that can drop 25 pts easily from deep on any team, which will give Iowa problems. Michigan covers and pulls away in the 2nd half of this one.