Less than two weeks after his dismissal at Iowa following 15 years there, it looks like McCaffery will become the head coach at his Penn alma mater
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Less than two weeks after his dismissal at Iowa following 15 years there, it looks like McCaffery will become the head coach at his Penn alma mater
Beth Goetz had a “good handful of conversations” with other coaches, but Drake’s Ben McCollum was always on her radar.
McCollum was a Hawkeye basketball fan, a Hawkeye basketball summer camper, and now is the Hawkeyes’ men’s basketball coach with a 6-year contract and a message for his new team: “Impose your will.”
Hawkeyes finished 23-11 after a second-round NCAA loss to Oklahoma in Year 1 of the Jan Jensen coaching era.
NCAA women’s basketball: Intentional-foul call on Hannah Stuelke leads to an Oklahoma five-point possession. The Sooners went on to rout Iowa, 96-62, in a second-round game.
See photos as the Hawkeyes took on the Sooners in Norman, Oklahoma for a chance to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.
Women’s basketball: Oklahoma torches Iowa on the glass, advances to the Sweet 16, 96-62. Sooners rule the glass by a 64-33 margin, snagging 24 offensive boards.
The sixth-seeded Hawkeyes will face third-seeded Oklahoma — coached by Iowa alum and Lisa Bluder era player Jennie Baranczyk — on Monday in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Follow The Gazette’s live blog below for score updates, highlights and analysis.
Craig Doty went head-to-head with McCollum when they coached in the same Division II conference. “We built our roster and our defensive system with the goal of taking them down,“ Doty said.
Ben McCollum joins the Hawkeyes after one season as the head coach at Drake. Before that, he spent 15 seasons at the helm at Northwest Missouri State.
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.
NCAA women’s basketball: Sweet 16 is at stake when Iowa meets Oklahoma on Monday, and guarding the Sooners, according to Coach Jan Jensen, is a ‘10’ in degree of difficulty.
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