Iowa basketball update with links

While I've been gone in Chicago covering the Big Ten meetings (and often it's tough to keep up on everything Hawkeye-related when you're out of town and writing about other topics as well), there's been a couple of interesting tidbits on Iowa basketball recently. Some of it you've read on my blog; other information has been posted on other sites.

I spoke with Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery in Chicago this week and he said he still plans to sign one or two more players for the upcoming season. One piece of information that confused some people is about the expired signing date. Players no longer can sign letters of intent to play at colleges, but they can sign up for scholarships and financial aid agreements. It's more of a matter of semantics than anything.

A situation involving former Iowa recruit now Wisconsin signee Ben Brust was a heated topic at the Big Ten meetings in Chicago. The Big Ten shredded a rule not allowing inter-conference transfers to gain scholarships at other schools, and now coaches and administrators are trying to piece it back together.

New assistant coach Sherman Dillard's son, Ben, is a junior in Frisco, Texas. He's a 6-foot-2 junior shooting guard and averaged 21 points a game last year for his high school team. Tom Kakert of HawkeyeReport.com has the latest on Dillard right here

Kevin Noreen, a 6-foot-10 post from Minneapolis, visited Iowa the other day while McCaffery was in Chicago. Noreen had signed to play at Boston College, but was released from his scholarship when there was a coaching change. Here's a Rivals.com story about Noreen

At 8:07 p.m. on May 16, Roy Marble Jr. tweeted that his cousin, Stephen McCarty, will walk on as a back-up point guard. Rob Howe of HawkeyeInsider.com spoke with McCarty, who played at West Bloomfield High in Detroit. Here's Howe's link

Junior-college guard Anthony Salter previously visited Iowa but committed to Hawaii on a visit last weekend. Junior-college guard Coco Ware also remains in play for Iowa but does not have an offer.