Margaret McCaffery addresses social media criticism of her sons on T’d Up with Connor and Patrick podcast

Former Notre Dame star shares stories from basketball playing and coaching career

The Gazette

Feb. 10, 2022 1:30 pm

University of Iowa head men's basketball coach Fran McCaffery and his wife, Margaret, speak Tuesday as part of a discussion during the 2019 Fall Philanthropy Talk at the Iowa Memorial Union at the University of Iowa. Margaret McCaffery serves on the national board of directors for the American Cancer Society and the couple has helped raise more than $2 million through their involvement with the society and its Coaches vs. Cancer partnership. (David Harmantas/Freelance)

Margaret McCaffery, Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery’s wife and the mother of Hawkeye basketball players Connor and Patrick McCaffery, is the guest on a new episode of the T’d Up with Connor and Patrick podcast.

Margaret discusses the feedback she gives her sons, her basketball playing and coaching career, what it was like moving to different parts of the country on Fran’s coaching journey, how she addresses the social media criticism of her sons and other Iowa players and why she doesn’t want Connor to be a coach.

Then Marit McCaffery, Margaret’s daughter and Connor and Patrick’s sister, joins the podcast to draft the family’s favorite rom-coms.

T'd Up with Connor and Patrick is presented by Hames Homes.