The long awaited Iowa men’s basketball schedule was released on Thursday and it includes a very challenging schedule, particularly when conference play arrives. Start times for the entire schedule remain unknown, but we now know the conference schedule after the non-conference portion was released a few weeks ago. As has been the case for several years, Big Ten teams will play a pair of league games in early December. Iowa will host Northwestern on December 3 and travel to Michigan on December 7. There’s also some unique aspects to the conference schedule, like a trip to Los Angeles in the mid…