Articles Tagged: Ben McCollum

The 6-foot-9 senior from state-champ West Des Moines Valley switched his commitment from Northern Iowa to Iowa.

Luke Barnwell was an assistant coach for two years at Texas Tech before joining McCollum’s Hawkeyes.

College basketball analyst Jess Settles joins host John Steppe on this week's episode of Hawk Off the Press to talk about Iowa men’s basketball.

Connor Wheeler was on Ben McCollum’s staff in the 2024-25 season, as were two other new Iowa assistants

Banks averaged 10.1 points, 5 rebounds for the Bulldogs and was on MVC’s All-Tournament team.

Cam Manyawu and Kael Combs, both part of McCollum’s rotation on his Missouri Valley Conferece-championship team, are becoming Hawkeyes.

It’s a team that was in the NCAA tournament this season and won 26 games. But it won’t bear any resemblance to its 2024-25 version.

Many holes to fill on Ben McCollum’s first Hawkeyes team.

Also, Fran McCaffery will get Penn playing better than it has in recent years, and Payton Sandfort dealt with a lot physically yet played every game this season.

The new Hawkeyes men’s basketball coach’s mother, Mary Timko, got her master’s and law degrees at Iowa before being an assistant county attorney. She then served for 33 years as a District Court judge in northwest Iowa.

McCollum, born in Iowa City and raised in Storm Lake, has won 81.8 percent of his games in his 15-year college coaching career.