Articles Tagged: Iowa men’s basketball

Iowa forward Kris Murray has been through the pre-NBA draft process before, but this time it’s for keeps.

The Swarm Collective has received “several $1,000-plus donations specifically for women’s basketball” since the team’s historic postseason run.

Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery has talked to a lot of NBA teams in the last couple weeks, and they seem to like what they see with Iowa’s Kris Murray.

Fran McCaffery said he has seen some “disgraceful” activity from agents representing athletes in the transfer portal.

Ben Krikke, a 6-foot-9 senior forward, is transferring from Valparaiso to Iowa. He brings experience and shooting touch to the Hawkeyes.

Murray was 3rd-team All-America, averaged over 20 points a game for Hawkeyes.

It’s a mailbag episode of the Hawk Off The Press podcast, with questions covering multiple Hawkeye sports, including football, basketball, baseball and softball.

Cedar Rapids’ Keegan Murray has an NBA rookie record 188 3-pointers for a Sacramento Kings team headed for the playoffs for the first time since 2006.

Greg McDermott, Jack Nunge and Tyger Campbell all went on from Eastern Iowa a lot of success.

Iowa’s shooting didn’t thaw soon enough, and its comeback came up short in an 83-75 NCAA first-round loss to Auburn.

Iowa fell behind by 17 in the second half, pulled within four, but then Auburn pulled away again for an 83-75 win in the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

Auburn plays Iowa Thursday in the heart of Tigers country, but that doesn’t mean everyone here will be in its corner. Alabama is playing in the Thursday afternoon session here

Former Iowa assistant coach Bruce Pearl has won a lot and had a three-year exile from coaching. Here he is 31 years after leaving Iowa, facing the Hawkeyes as Auburn head coach in the NCAA tournament Thursday.

Joe Toussaint’s West Virginia team beat Iowa’s Thursday foe, Auburn. The Mountaineers face Maryland, a club the Hawkeyes know well.

Iowa assistant coach Matt Gatens was on Bruce Pearl’s Auburn staff four years ago. The Hawkeyes play Pearl’s Tigers Thursday in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.