CHICAGO — Iowa still has a few holes on its schedule for the upcoming basketball season, coach Fran McCaffery said. “We’ve got to schedule at least one more game, maybe two,” McCaffery said from the Big Ten spring meetings at the Sofitel Hotel. “We might go on the road. We’ve got a lot of things [...]

CHICAGO — Big Ten men’s basketball coaches lack the same zeal as their football counterparts to split the league into divisions. After a full day of meetings at the Sofitel Hotel, basketball coaches have yet to discuss a potential divisional alignment, Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said. “I don’t think divisional play is where we’re headed,” [...]

IOWA CITY — Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery has no plans to red-shirt incoming freshman Peter Jok this fall. Actually, McCaffery expects Jok to compete for playing time right away. “With Peter, we looked at a lot of different players,” McCaffery said. “We just kept coming back to him as a guy that we think as a [...]

IOWA CITY — Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery has no problem telling reporters his team could challenge for the hierarchy next year in Big Ten play. Iowa returns nearly 93 percent of its scoring on an upper-division Big Ten team that won 25 games last year. Those are enough reasons to energize a fan base [...]

NEW YORK — Iowa and Baylor had NCAA aspirations but NIT pedigrees. The teams finished conference play at 9-9 and that was enough to keep them out of the Big Dance. But each since has carved out its own side room and danced to a different beat in the renowned consolation tournament. Iowa (25-12) has [...]

NEW YORK — Iowa has won 24 games, tied for the third-most in school history. If the Hawkeyes win the NIT championship, they’ll own second place by themselves. While the wins and losses matter, they don’t tell the complete story of this year’s men’s basketball team. Iowa was 9-9 in league play and didn’t qualify [...]

IOWA CITY — Iowa coach Fran McCaffery received his first job in college basketball from a man who indirectly will oppose him in an NIT quarterfinal Wednesday night. Virginia Athletics Director Craig Littlepage became the head basketball coach at Pennsylvania in 1982. McCaffery graduated from Penn’s vaunted Wharton School of Finance and Commerce in 1982 [...]

CHICAGO — Iowa’s postseason fate is out of its control, and it’s an uncomfortable feeling for the Hawkeyes. Minutes after losing a Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal to No. 8 Michigan State on Friday, Iowa’s players and coaches made one last plea for the NCAA selection committee to consider them for at-large discussion. The Hawkeyes (21-12) [...]

CHICAGO — They’ve been knocked down and punked out. They’ve slammed chairs and had turnovers slammed. Iowa’s recent history with Michigan State is full of heartbreak and backdowns. Five consecutive losses, including two straight in Big Ten Tournament play. Iowa coach Fran McCaffery infamously slammed a chair last year in East Lansing and his players infamously [...]

IOWA CITY — In the two games since Mike Gesell’s foot injury, sophomore Josh Oglesby has started at off-guard and Devyn Marble has played the point. The results have been mixed. Marble has scored 38 points in the two games, while Oglesby is 1-for-9 from the field with seven total points. Senior Eric May has [...]