Articles Tagged: Iowa men’s basketball

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.

Seydou Traore announced he was transferring to Iowa. The 6-foot-7 Traore averaged 11.8 points, 8.2 rebounds for Division I Manhattan in 2023-24 as a freshman.

Iowa men’s basketball is not hosting UCLA or USC in their first season in the Big Ten, but will go to Los Angeles to play both.

Basketball attendance at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in 2023-24 was a tale of two teams, as evident by tickets scanned data obtained by The Gazette via a public records request.

Former Morehead State guard Drew Thelwell has committed to Iowa men’s basketball via the transfer portal, he announced Wednesday on social media.

Former Iowa point guard Tony Perkins is “leaving here because he has a market value probably in the neighborhood of $500,000,” head coach Fran McCaffery told the university’s Presidential Committee on Athletics on Thursday at its monthly meeting.

Luka Garza has been persistent in his quest to get a standard NBA playing contract, and Thursday was the day. The Minnesota Timberwolves converted the former Iowa National Player of the Year’s two-way deal to a standard contract.

Iowa junior guard Payton Sandfort has declared for the 2024 NBA Draft, the school announced Tuesday. He has until May 29 to remove his name from draft consideration.