IOWA CITY — Iowa basketball played Saint Louis in a closed preseason scrimmage last weekend.

The Billikens are in their second season under head coach Josh Schertz. According to Stu Durando , Saint Louis beat Iowa, 99-74. But because the game was closed to the public, the scrimmage deserves more context.

At Iowa men’s basketball media day on Oct. 15, assistant coach Josh Sash described the structure of the closed-door scrimmage.

“We played five 12-minute quarters with no score on the clock,” Sash said. “We started a different lineup every single one of those. We took Bennett (Stirtz) out with around the four-minute media (timeout) in that third scrimmage, and then he didn't play again. Several guys that first started and played a lot in the first two kind of got scaled back.

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