Only a single top-25 game is on Thursday’s college basketball schedule. That matchup is the Iowa Hawkeyes squaring off against the Iowa State Cyclones at James H. Hilton Coliseum.
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Iowa Hawkeyes at No. 4 Iowa State Cyclones
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Date: Friday, December 12
Spread: Iowa State (-11.5)
Total: 140.5
Moneyline: Cyclones -800, Hawkeyes +550
Prediction: Iowa State 80, Iowa 71
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