MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) – The University of Iowa men’s basketball team will play Washington State in the John Deere Quad Cities Showdown on Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. at Vibrant Arena at The Mark in Moline. It will be the Hawkeyes’ first game in the Quad Cities in 26 years.

“Quad Cities is a great basketball town, great basketball area, unbelievable tradition,” McCaffery said. “We have two incredible athletes from here they’re going to be great players for us so to be able to bring them back home as well is something we are all thrilled about and look forward to.”

Moline natives, Brock Harding and Owen Freeman play on the Hawkeyes men’s basketball teams. The two visited Moline and discuss their history in the QCA and how they are excited to be playing in their hometown for the upcoming game.

Tickets for the game are available on the Vibrant Arena website, or at the box office, Monday – Friday from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m.

John Deere is proud to be the lead sponsor for this event with the Iowa basketball team at the Vibrant Center. And an aspect of this event actually connects to one of the new community programs the company is supporting. It’s the John Deere Scholars programs, and it’s supporting Davenport Community students to go to the University of Iowa. The partnership program has several components.

The first program is preparing high school seniors to go to college, whether it’s the University of Iowa or anywhere, And the other part is that John Deere is offering scholarships for 20 students per year over the next three years, which is a total of 60 students. Another aspect is the intension to provide one genre employee as a mentor for each of the 20 students that are selected.

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