Articles Tagged: Fran McCaffery

Lueth, a 6-foot-7 guard from Ames, is going to the Ivy League from the Cedar Rapids community college. That’s after he speaks at Kirkwood’s commencement ceremony later this week.

Ex-Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery is “staying in the fight” and “going to be coaching somewhere next year,” he said on a podcast hosted by former college basketball coach James Young.

Iowa has officially moved on from Fran McCaffery after 15 seasons. Here is what former players and others in the college basketball community said on social media following Friday’s firing.

For the first time since 2010, the Hawkeyes are searching for a men’s basketball head coach. Here’s a look at the highs and lows of the Fran McCaffery era, by the numbers.

Iowa City West senior-to-be Jack McCaffery has verbally committed to play basketball at Butler University in 2025. Months after Patrick McCaffery’s playing career ends at Butler, his younger brother will join the Big East program.

Iowa had a streak of NCAA tournament appearances snapped last season, but Fran McCaffery’s Hawkeyes could jump back in the Top 25 picture quicker than some may think.

Fran McCaffery expressed frustration with the NCAA’s timing of the men’s basketball transfer portal window, which overlaps significantly with postseason play.

Iowa City West forward Jack McCaffery is arguably the top junior basketball player in the state. But the youngest son of University of Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery has his sights set on playing college ball elsewhere.

Fran McCaffery said he is “not retiring anytime soon.” The Iowa men’s basketball coach of 14 years is 64, five years younger than his Tuesday counterpart, Tom Izzo of Michigan State.

Iowa is in the bottom-half of the Big Ten in average men’s basketball attendance. Tickets-scanned data, which The Gazette obtained via public records requests, paint an even bleaker picture.

Iowa’s men’s basketball team is in the midst of a January surge that has the Hawkeyes again looking like one of the more imposing teams in the Big Ten.

Iowa’s men’s basketball program required a rebuild when Fran McCaffery arrived in 2010. The win that sent McCaffery to the top of the team’s all-time wins list Monday necessitated a similar early recovery.

Iowa’s 86-77 win over Rutgers made Fran McCaffery the program’s leader in wins in Big Ten games.

After a poor offensive effort Thursday, Iowa’s men’s basketball team rebounded to shoot 56 percent from the field in an 85-72 win Friday night over Seton Hall in the consolation game of the Rady Children’s Invitational.

Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery answered questions about possible Carver-Hawkeye Arena renovations, Big Ten expansion, NIL and the transfer portal and more at Big Ten Media Days.