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The 2010–11 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represented the University of Iowa in the 2010–11 college basketball season. The team was led by head coach Fran McCaffery and played their home games at Carver-Hawkeye Arena , which has been their home since 1983.
Francis John McCaffery [1] (born May 23, 1959) is an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach at the University of Iowa.He has taken four Division I programs to postseason tournaments, including the Iowa Hawkeyes, who reached the final of the 2013 National Invitation Tournament and have reached the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in seven of his ...
Four Iowa Hawkeye men's basketball coaches have been inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame: Sam Barry, Ralph Miller, Lute Olson and George Raveling. Fran McCaffery, the current head coach, is the longest-tenured and winningest coach in school history. Pops Harrison had the best winning percentage in school history (.700).
Iowa's original 1995–96 record was 23–9 (11–7 Big Ten), but the NCAA awarded Iowa a win by forfeit for the January 3, 1996 game at Purdue, originally an 85–61 loss, due to NCAA violations by Purdue. [3] [4]
Following Barry in the line of Hawkeye coaches was Rollie Williams, who would coach Iowa on two occasions, from 1929 to 1942 and in 1951. [11] Williams' winning percentage of 51.5% (139–131), and his long tenure at Iowa allowed him to become the winningest coach in Iowa history until Lute Olson, Tom Davis and Fran McCaffery surpassed him. [12]
The team was led by head coach Todd Lickliter and team played their home games at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, which has been their home since 1983. They were members of the Big Ten Conference . They finished the season 10–22, 4–14 in Big Ten play and lost in the first round of the 2010 Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament .
The Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball statistical leaders are individual statistical leaders of the Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball program in various categories, including points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks. Within those areas, the lists identify single-game, single-season, and career leaders.
Alford was named the head coach of the University of Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball program on March 22, 1999. Although his first game as coach was a 70–68 victory against the defending national champion Connecticut Huskies at Madison Square Garden , his team went 14–16 during his first season at Iowa.