Recent Iowa basketball visitor among NBPA Top 100 Camp Risers

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The Iowa men's basketball team is entering the 2025 season with a new head coach for the first time since 2010 and hopes are high for the Hawks under Ben McCollum.
While McCollum is bringing in a huge transfer class this year, he's only recruited two true freshmen to the class so far. But, McCollum is already getting to work on the 2026 class, sending offers to several highly talented players. And one of those players just saw his stock rise.
The NBPA Top 100 Camp takes place every year and invites the top high school players from around the country to come and show coaches and scouts what they can do. It's a chance for stocks to rise and for offers to start flooding in to these players. And that's exactly what happened for one Iowa 2026 target.
McCollum and the Hawkeyes recently had four-star small forward prospect Colin Rice in for a visit on June 4.
The 6-foot-7, 180-pound small forward from Waukee Northwest High School in Iowa has five Power Four offers from Iowa, Northwestern, Nebraska, Colorado and Illinois.
Rice participated in the NBPA Top 100 Camp last week and flourished, catching the attention of plenty of scouts including Jamie Shaw of On3, who included Rice among his five major stock risers from the event (subscription required).
The positional size pops quickly when watching Colin Rice. Once the ball tips, you see the athletic fluidity and the comfort he has with the ball in his hands. Rice has solid length with legit size. He is comfortable on the ball, getting to spots off a dribble or two, and he has a smooth shooting stroke with range off the bounce or off the catch. Gaining strength with be the next steps for Rice, and with that might come better balance to find production in his advantages created in the half-court. The shooting stroke was true this week, and the upside is intriguing.
His recruitment leveled up toward high majors in May when he saw Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Colorado each jump into the mix.- Jamie Shaw, On3
Since that Iowa visit on June 4, Rice has since visited Nebraska and has a visit with Northwestern scheduled for June 29.
During his junior season at Waukee Northwest, Rice helped lead the Wolves to a 22-4 record and an appearance in the Class 4A state championship game, where they lost to Valley, 61-47. Rice averaged 14 points and eight rebounds per game in 2024-25 and will look to take on a bigger role during his senior season.
McCollum and the Hawks want to keep the one of the fastest-rising recruits in the 2026 class in state, but Iowa will have to deal with plenty of competition following Rice's performance at the NBPA Top 100 Camp.
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