Iowa Hawkeyes men’s basketball

The Iowa Hawkeyes men’s basketball team represents the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, as a Part of the Big Ten Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Coach Fran McCaffery was because 2010 at Iowa, and is the head coach.
The Hawkeyes won the Big Ten tournament, won eight Big Ten regular-season conference championships and have played 26 NCAA Tournaments, eight NIT Tournaments. Iowa has played at the Final Four on three occasions, reaching the semifinals in 1955 and 1980 and playing in the championship match against the University of San Francisco in 1956.
Iowa basketball was broadly successful in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s with a schedule resurgence under Lute Olson and the tenures of George Raveling and Tom Davis. Beneath Olson, the Hawkeyes won their final regular season championship and went into the 1980 Final Four.
They play 15,400-seat Carver-Hawkeye Arena, together with Iowa women’s basketball, wrestling, and volleyball teams.
Before playing in Carver-Hawkeye Arena, which started in 1983,[6] the Hawkeyes played at the Iowa Armory and the Iowa Field House, which is still utilized today by the institution’s gymnastics teams. Before dropping to rival Northern Iowa in 2006, the Hawkeyes accumulated a school-record 21 wins at home.
Four Iowa coaches have been inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame: Sam Barry, Ralph Miller, Lute Olson and George Raveling.

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June 25, 2019