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2009–10 Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team

2009–10 Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball
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MVC Regular Season Champions
MVC Tournament Champions
NCAA Tournament, Sweet Sixteen
Conference Missouri Valley Conference
Ranking
Coaches No. 13
2009–10 record 30–5 (15–3 MVC)
Head coach Ben Jacobson
Assistant coach Kyle Green
Assistant coach P.J. Hogan
Assistant coach Ben Johnson
Home arena McLeod Center
Seasons
« 2008–09 2010–11 »
2009–10 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Northern Iowa 15 3   .833     30 5   .857
Wichita State 12 6   .667     25 10   .714
Illinois St. 11 7   .611     22 11   .667
Creighton 10 8   .556     17 15   .531
Indiana St. 9 9   .500     17 15   .531
Bradley 9 9   .500     16 15   .516
Missouri St. 8 10   .444     21 12   .636
Drake 7 11   .389     14 19   .424
Southern Illinois 6 12   .333     15 15   .500
Evansville 3 15   .167     9 21   .300
2010 MVC Tournament winner
As of March 20, 2010; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2009–10 Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team represented the University of Northern Iowa in the 2009-10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team, which plays in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), was led by fourth-year head coach Ben Jacobson and played their home games at the McLeod Center. They went 15–3 during the regular conference season to win the regular season championship. The Panthers also won the 2010 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. They earned a 9 seed in the Midwest Region where they defeated 8 seed UNLV in the first round and the overall 1 seed Kansas in the second round to advance to the Sweet Sixteen at Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis.

While they lost in their next game to Michigan State, they got a unique parting gift. Because the NCAA has been increasingly using non-traditional basketball venues in recent NCAA Tournaments, it has been building new courts for its regional sites and then selling them to schools in need of a court. UNI purchased the court on which the Panthers played in their loss to the Spartans, and installed it at McLeod Center for the 2010–11 season.


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