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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]
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).
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.
The 2021–22 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represented the University of Iowa during the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The team was led by 12th-year head coach Fran McCaffery and played its home games at Carver–Hawkeye Arena as members of the Big Ten Conference.
Iowa women's basketball began in 1974, under head coach Lark Birdsong. The first Iowa team finished 5–16 in 1974–75, its first victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Birdsong coached Iowa until 1978–79, which marked Iowa's first winning season. [1] She was subsequently replaced by Judy McMullen, who led the program for the next four ...
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 ...
This is a list of seasons completed by the Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball program since the team became a varsity sport in 1901. [1] The program began competing in the Big Ten Conference in 1908. [ 2 ]
Jensen was born on December 6, 1968 in the small rural town of Kimballton, Iowa. [1] [2] [3] Basketball played a large part in Jensen's family background.Her grandmother, Dorcas Andersen, was part of a team that won the Iowa state basketball tournament in 1921. [4]