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The 2023–24 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represented the University of Iowa during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The team was led by 14th-year head coach Fran McCaffery and played its home games at Carver–Hawkeye Arena as members of the Big Ten Conference.
The 2023–24 Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team represented the University of Iowa during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.The Hawkeyes were led by head coach Lisa Bluder in her twenty-fourth season, and played their home games at Carver–Hawkeye Arena as a member of the Big Ten Conference.
The 2024–25 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represents the University of Iowa during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They are led by fifteenth-year head coach Fran McCaffery, and play their home games at Carver–Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa, as a member of the Big Ten Conference.
Iowa Clark Jersey Basketball FILE - Iowa guard Caitlin Clark makes a heart gesture after the team's NCAA college basketball game against Michigan, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in Iowa City, Iowa.
The Hawkeyes finished the 2023–24 season with a 34–5 record, including 15–3 in Big Ten play. They won the 2024 Big Ten women's basketball tournament and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. [1]
FILE - Iowa guard Taylor Stremlow (1) celebrates at the end of an NCAA college basketball game against Iowa State, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, in Iowa City, Iowa.
The roots of Iowa basketball lie in 1901, when Ed Rule coached the Hawkeyes to a 10–2 record in their very first season of varsity basketball. Earlier, when the sport was evolving and still in a club format, Iowa played the University of Chicago club in the first five-on-five college game on January 18, 1896. [ 11 ]
Under Bluder, the Hawkeyes have won two regular season Big Ten championships (2008, 2022) and five Big Ten tournament championships (2001, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024). On May 13, 2024, Bluder announced her retirement on that same day it was announced that long time assistant head coach Jan Jensen would be hired as the new head coach.