"Ben S. Jacobson" is the head men's basketball coach at the University of Northern Iowa since 2006. He served as an assistant at North Dakota Fighting Sioux men's basketball/North Dakota, North Dakota State Bison men's basketball/North Dakota State, and Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball/Northern Iowa before taking over as head coach at Northern Iowa in 2006.

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Sometimes, with teams from the power conferences, people look at what it says across the front of the jersey when it comes to getting rated.

This is as big a game as we'll have all year.

It's two of the premier mid-major teams going at it. A lot of eyes will be on this game.

In the second half I kind of got it going a little bit. Coach put the ball in my hands and ran some plays for me, and I was able to hit some shots.

We didn't think they could guard our big guys inside. We just kept pumping it in there.

This is a game we really wanted to get. Maybe we put a little too much pressure on ourselves.

Our focus has been on winning the conference title.

We've been playing great basketball of late. Tonight it wasn't there.

It was a little redemption after the Creighton game.