On Iowa Daily Briefing 5.25.12 -- Catching up with Fran McCaffery

Iowa men's basketball coach Fran McCaffery is out in full force on the I-Club circuit and recently made four stops in an eight-day period. On Thursday, he attended the spring banquet for Iowa/Benton/Tama counties in Keystone and I caught up with him for a couple of minutes.

Here are a few notes:

All of Iowa's current roster will enroll in summer classes and compete in the Prime Time League, McCaffery said. Three of Iowa's five incoming freshmen - Mike Gesell, Anthony Clemmons and Kyle Meyer - also will take summer courses and play in the PTL.

It's undetermined if Adam Woodbury will compete in the PTL this summer. Woodbury, a Sioux City East graduate, is one of 24 players competing for a spot on the 12-member USA Basketball men's U18 national team. If Woodbury makes the squad, he won't attend summer classes or play in the PTL, McCaffery said

Training camp is held June 5-12 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The team will compete June 16-20 in Sao Sebastiáo do Paraiso, Brazil.

Guard Patrick Ingram will not attend summer classes. He's scheduled to play in a pair of Indiana-Kentucky all-star games, the first on June 8 in Louisville and the second on June 9 in Indianapolis.

"That will preclude him from going to summer school," McCaffery said.

Ingram, who competed for Indianapolis' vaunted North Central High School, also plans to play in a sanctioned summer league in Indianapolis this summer.

Iowa has one basketball scholarship available for this coming year, but it's unlikely the school will use it at this point.

"There's nobody right now that we're really thinking about," McCaffery said. "There's always a possibility, but nobody's scheduled to visit."

LINK PAD

-- Nate Kaeding is apparently back.

The San Diego Chargers kicker from Iowa City West and the Iowa Hawkeyes had a rude interruption to his NFL career last season when he suffered multiple ligament tears in his plant foot on the opening kickoff of the season's first game.

This North County Times story quotes Kaeding as saying this:

"Once I was able to cut and workout and practice with my teammates, the confidence grew to the point it's at today. Now the focus is on repetition, repetition, repetition. I've upped my reps in the offseason to erase all doubt in the plant foot, regain my rhythm and, when the rubber hits the road, be ready to go."

-- Yahoo Sports' Mike Huguenin ranks Iowa's Adam Woodbury as the No. 6 men's basketball newcomer for the 2012-2013 season.

-- Another sector has weighed in, calling the Big Ten a potential men's basketball beast next season.

The Sporting News has issued its preseason ratings, and has three Big Ten teams in the top 6. That's Indiana at No. 1, Ohio State at No. 4, and Michigan at No. 6.

-- So when does the Big 12 start making some calls? Like, say, to Florida State and Clemson?

Thursday night, Clemson Board of Trustees Chairman David Wilkins said this:

"If we were contacted by a conference, we would obviously listen to what they had to say. And then we would make a reasonable decision. We aren't seeking that, and we aren't making any overtures about that. I think we have a responsibility to consider any viable component that would come our way. But we haven't been contacted by anybody."

-- In its final season in the Big 12, Missouri is 7-1 against Texas in football, men's basketball and baseball. The sixth-seed Tigers beat the third-seed Longhorns in Wednesday's Big 12 tournament opening round, 5-0.

Mizzou swept three games from the Horns in basketball, took three of four in baseball, and beat Texas on the gridiron last November, 17-5.