Articles Tagged: Iowa men’s basketball

General manager Monte McNair raved about Keegan Murray Thursday night after the Sacramento Kings selected him with the No. 4 overall pick in the NBA Draft.

About 50 people showed up at Cedar Rapids Prairie High School Thursday night for a NBA Draft party. They didn’t have to wait long to hear former Hawk Keegan Murray’s name get called as the fourth-overall pick, to the Sacramento Kings.

Iowa got its second men’s basketball recruiting commitment of Thursday when guard Brock Harding of Moline (Ill.) High School verbally committed as a second member of Fran McCaffery’s 2023 recruiting class.

See photos from the NBA Draft watch party at Cedar Rapids Prairie, where Keegan Murray was an all-state basketball player. The Sacramento Kings picked him with the No. 4 overall selection Thursday night.

Keegan Murray became the highest-drafted player in Iowa men’s basketball history when the Sacramento Kings took him with the No. 4 overall pick.

See photos from Keegan Murray’s time with the Cedar Rapids Prairie and Iowa basketball programs.

Cooper Koch of Peoria, Ill., has committed to the Iowa men’s basketball program. His father, J.R. Koch, played for Iowa from 1995-1999.

Here’s a look at the top three likely landing spots for Keegan Murray in Thursday’s NBA Draft, with the realization a late trade could upend things.

See photos from Iowa men’s basketball practice on Tuesday, June 21, 2022.

Iowa men’s basketball will again roll with Filip Rebraca in the post, while hoping for more help from Riley Mulvey and Josh Ogundele.

Iowa’s Keegan Murray started his NBA lottery pick story at Prairie High in Cedar Rapids.

If Keegan Murray goes in the top five picks of Thursday’s NBA Draft, he will be highest-drafted Hawkeye ever. Ricky Davis in 1998 was Iowa’s last first-round pick.

The last player from Cedar Rapids to be taken in an NBA draft will be smiling as the next one gets announced Thursday night. Russ Millard, a second-round NBA draft pick in 1996, was a big part of some big Iowa wins.

Iowa’s Big Ten opponents for the 2022-23 men’s basketball season were announced Thursday.

Former Iowa men’s basketball player Austin Ash is getting put on a full-ride scholarship by The Citadel for his final season of eligibility.