CEDAR RAPIDS – Campers seemed star-struck with the Hawkeye players at the shooting camp held at Xavier High School on Tuesday and Wednesday. “It’s huge for them” said former Hawkeye guard Eric May. “They are fans of Iowa and they supported us all year. And it’s also fun to work with kids.” May, Iowa’s co-captain [...]

CORALVILLE — Eric May earned the award that embodies more than just jumpers and high-flying dunks. And that suited the Iowa senior just fine on Thursday night. May, a Dubuque native, picked up The Chris Street Award at the basketball team’s annual banquet. The award is presented each year to a player who best exemplifies [...]

NEW YORK — Eric May stood in front of his basketball locker for the final time as an Iowa Hawkeye with red eyes and a visible heart. May, a senior, fouled out with 2:41 left in the game and exited to a standing ovation from a sizable Iowa fan base. He first slapped hands with [...]

NEW YORK — Iowa’s team captain covered himself with ice packs after the program’s biggest basketball victory in recent memory. Senior Eric May, Iowa’s leader and catalyst, had ice wrapped around his back and both knees in the wake of Iowa’s 71-60 win Tuesday against Maryland. The fluid and powerful athletic ability he displayed with [...]

In the first half of Iowa’s win over Northwestern Thursday night, Hawkeye senior Eric May used some porous transition defense by the Wildcats into a huge dunk. May’s jam put the Hawkeyes up 18 points at the time, and Iowa would win by 14.

IOWA CITY — With six wins in his team’s last eight games, Iowa junior Melsahn Basabe likes his team’s chances entering the Big Ten Tournament this week. Not just competing, mind you. Winning the whole thing. “If you’re not going in there thinking that, then you shouldn’t be there,” said Basabe, who scored 11 points and [...]

Iowa guard Mike Gesell has missed the last three games with a right foot “stress reaction” and will not play Saturday against his native state Nebraska. But Gesell still has a chance to play in next week’s Big Ten Tournament. Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said he’s “guarded … because there’s no guarantee” that Gesell will [...]

IOWA CITY — Perhaps nobody in Carver-Hawkeye Arena is more nervous than Bill May when his son, Iowa forward Eric May, leaps for a thunderous dunk. That held true Sunday afternoon in the Hawkeyes’ 72-51 win against Minnesota. At a pivotal juncture, May hauled in a pass from Melsahn Basabe in stride and rocketed toward [...]

IOWA CITY — Iowa blasted 11 dunks in its 80-50 pasting of Coppin State in their non-conference finale Saturday. But the ambiguous method of determining a dunk champion depends on your perspective. Is it volume? Iowa sophomore Aaron White had six dunks en route to a game-high 20 points. Is it the instant reaction? Senior [...]

IOWA CITY — Eric May, Zach McCabe and Melsahn Basabe have combined for 160 starts in their Iowa careers, yet none of them will open a game for the foreseeable future. The upperclassmen bring tangible qualities to the basketball court — they average a combined 18.3 points and 12.3 rebounds a game. But it’s their intangibles that [...]