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USA Today
01-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Iowa basketball announces Ben McCollum's head coaching debut date
Iowa basketball announces Ben McCollum's head coaching debut date First Game of the McCollum Era. 🔒 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐬. 𝐈𝐨𝐰𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐬 November 4, 2025 Carver-Hawkeye Arena #Hawkeyes — Iowa Men's Basketball (@IowaHoops) April 1, 2025 As Iowa basketball continues to reform the program over the offseason with new players, philosophies, and expectations, the opening game of the Ben McCollum era has officially been set in stone as the Hawkeyes look to take the next step in the increasingly competitive Big Ten conference. According to Iowa athletics, McCollum's first game at the helm of the Hawkeyes will be on Nov. 4 as the program opens its 2025-26 season vs. Robert Morris from Carver-Hawkeye Arena. McCollum joins the Iowa program after one season at Drake where he guided the Bulldogs to a 31-4 (17-3 Missouri Valley) record and a trip to the NCAA Tournament's round of 32. Under McCollum's direction, the 11th-seeded Drake defeated No. 6 seed Missouri by a score of 67-57 to open up its run in March Madness before falling to No. 3 seed Texas Tech, 77-64, in Wichita, Kan. For his work at Drake, McCollum won Missouri Valley Coach of the Year honors, the 2025 Joe B. Hall Coach of the Year Award, and was a semifinalist for the 2025 Naismith Coach of the Year Award. Prior to his lone season at Drake, McCollum spent 15 seasons leading Division II Northwest Missouri State, where he compiled a 394-91 record and captured four national championships. In addition to the Bearcats' impressive title run, the program won 11 straight Mid-American Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) regular-season titles to end McCollum's tenure and 12 overall. McCollum replaces 15-year veteran head coach Fran McCaffery, whom Iowa fired on March 14 following a 17-16 (7-13 Big Ten) finish this past season. McCollum will be tasked with reinvigorating the Iowa program, which has not made the NCAA Tournament the past two seasons and has not advanced beyond the second round since the 1998-99 campaign. Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes, and opinions. Follow Scout on X: @SpringgateNews
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Iowa basketball hires former Drake coach Ben McCollum
After a Sunday filled with some anxiety, ESPN insiders Pete Thamel and Jeff Borzello reported that Iowa has agreed to a deal to make Ben McCollum the Hawkeyes' next head basketball coach. McCollum takes over in Iowa City after one season at Drake where he guided the Bulldogs to a 31-4 (17-3 Missouri Valley) record and a trip to the NCAA Tournament's round of 32. Under McCollum's direction, 11th-seeded Drake defeated No. 6 seed Missouri, 67-57, to open up its run in March Madness before falling to No. 3 seed Texas Tech, 77-64, in Wichita, Kan. For his work this season at Drake, McCollum won Missouri Valley Coach of the Year honors and was a semifinalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year Award. Advertisement McCollum becomes the 23rd head men's basketball coach in Iowa history. Thamel and Borzello's report confirms a Sunday report from Hawkeye Insider's David Eickholt who reported that Iowa was working to finalize a deal with McCollum. Prior to his lone season at Drake, McCollum spent 15 seasons as the head coach at Division II Northwest Missouri State where he compiled a 394-91 record and captured four national championships. The Bearcats won 11 straight MIAA regular-season titles to end McCollum's tenure and 12 total. Before McCollum was named head coach, the program had won just four MIAA titles over the previous 62 seasons. The Bearcats went 38-0 in 2018-19 and suffered just one loss in both the 2016-17 and 2019-20 seasons. Advertisement McCollum replaces Fran McCaffery, who Iowa fired following a 17-16 (7-13 Big Ten) finish this past season. Iowa missed each of the past two NCAA Tournaments. Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes and opinions. Follow Josh on X: @JoshOnREF This article originally appeared on Hawkeyes Wire: Iowa basketball hires former Drake coach Ben McCollum
USA Today
24-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Iowa basketball hires former Drake coach Ben McCollum
Iowa basketball hires former Drake coach Ben McCollum After a Sunday filled with some anxiety, ESPN insiders Pete Thamel and Jeff Borzello reported that Iowa has agreed to a deal to make Ben McCollum the Hawkeyes' next head basketball coach. McCollum takes over in Iowa City after one season at Drake where he guided the Bulldogs to a 31-4 (17-3 Missouri Valley) record and a trip to the NCAA Tournament's round of 32. Under McCollum's direction, 11th-seeded Drake defeated No. 6 seed Missouri, 67-57, to open up its run in March Madness before falling to No. 3 seed Texas Tech, 77-64, in Wichita, Kan. For his work this season at Drake, McCollum won Missouri Valley Coach of the Year honors and was a semifinalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year Award. McCollum becomes the 23rd head men's basketball coach in Iowa history. Thamel and Borzello's report confirms a Sunday report from Hawkeye Insider's David Eickholt who reported that Iowa was working to finalize a deal with McCollum. Prior to his lone season at Drake, McCollum spent 15 seasons as the head coach at Division II Northwest Missouri State where he compiled a 394-91 record and captured four national championships. The Bearcats won 11 straight MIAA regular-season titles to end McCollum's tenure and 12 total. Before McCollum was named head coach, the program had won just four MIAA titles over the previous 62 seasons. The Bearcats went 38-0 in 2018-19 and suffered just one loss in both the 2016-17 and 2019-20 seasons. McCollum replaces Fran McCaffery, who Iowa fired following a 17-16 (7-13 Big Ten) finish this past season. Iowa missed each of the past two NCAA Tournaments. Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes and opinions. Follow Josh on X: @JoshOnREF
