Articles Tagged: Iowa men’s basketball

Iowa Athletics is making some adjustments to the seating configuration at basketball games that will most notably bring some students closer to the court, athletics director Beth Goetz said Thursday.

Iowa has eight regular-season nonconference home men’s basketball games scheduled for the upcoming season. Times and television will be announced later.

The Iowa men’s basketball team will play Washington State in Moline, Ill., on Nov. 15. It’s the Hawkeyes’ first game in Moline since 1998.

Former Iowa basketball player Joe Wieskamp will play in Australia next season. Wieskamp spent three years in the NBA and NBA G League after leaving Iowa in 2021.

The Iowa Barnstormers AAU basketball program announced it has reached a partnership with NBA players Kris and Keegan Murray and their father Kenyon, and will rebrand to Murray Elite Basketball.

Iowa men’s basketball has promoted longtime staffer Al Seibert to general manager in addition to his current duties as chief of staff, the program announced on Wednesday.

Seydou Traore, Chris Tadjo and Cooper Koch are new names to Iowa men’s basketball fans who could fill all sorts of roles for Fran McCaffery in the season ahead.

Iowa’s Brock Harding will be joined by a point guard who did a lot of winning at Morehead State, Drew Thelwell.

The University of Iowa athletics department has announced updates to its season ticketing procedures for the 2024-25 basketball season.

Luka Garza, the consensus men’s basketball National Player of the Year as an Iowa senior in 2021, has signed a two-year contract with the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves. He could have opted for free agency.

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.

NBA players Kris and Keegan Murray returned to their high school alma mater Cedar Rapids Prairie on Thursday to be honored with a special wall display of them outside of the school’s main gymnasium and by having their Prairie jerseys retired and honorarily hung inside the gym.

Payton Sandfort announced Wednesday night that he was withdrawing from the NBA draft to return to the Hawkeyes. The senior-to-be wing will provide perimeter shooting, rebounding, leadership in his senior season.

High-scoring Iowa forward Payton Sandfort will decide by Wednesday if he is staying in the NBA draft or returning for a fourth season with the Hawkeyes.

Ben Krikke helped his hometown Edmonton team win its season-opener before a Canadian Elite Basketball League-record crowd of 12,327 in Calgary.