Articles Tagged: Iowa men’s basketball

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.

Patrick McCaffery is entering the transfer portal. While not a surprise, he is the third Hawkeye to enter the portal since it opened earlier this month.

Four-year Iowa men’s basketball player Tony Perkins has entered the NCAA transfer portal. Perkins scored 1,175 career points and started 81 games as a Hawkeye, leading the team in assists and steals this season

The Hawkeyes got within “striking distance,” but were unable to climb back from an 18-point first-half deficit in their season-ending loss to Utah in the second round of the NIT.

Iowa and Utah will face off for the first time since 1964 in the second round of the NIT on Sunday.

Fran McCaffery expressed frustration with the NCAA’s timing of the men’s basketball transfer portal window, which overlaps significantly with postseason play.

The Iowa men’s basketball team will play Utah in a second-round National Invitation Tournament game Sunday. Let’s just say it will bring an end to the weekend.

The Iowa men’s basketball team beat Kansas State 91-82 in an NIT first-round game Tuesday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.

Payton Sandfort, identified as the Iowa men’s Caitlin Clark in the Wildcats’ scouting report, has career-high 30 points and Ben Krikke scored 24 for Hawkeyes. Iowa never trailed and heads to this weekend’s second round.