Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery will red-shirt 6-foot-10 post Kyle Meyer for the season. McCaffery had told The Gazette multiple times this offseason he had planned to red-shirt one player, and Meyer was the likely candidate. McCaffery finalized his decision this week. Iowa boasts five players in the rotation who will work in at power forward [...]

IOWA CITY — Their shorts hang low, but nobody’s making a fashion statement. They come with high promise, a lot of hype and their recruiting ratings are off the chart. Meet the future of Iowa basketball, this year’s five-member freshman class. Two were Rivals’ top-100 recruits and all boast skill sets that should form the [...]

A lightning strike outside a Pennsylvania NASCAR race on Sunday killed a 41-year-old man, who was the step-uncle of Iowa men’s basketball player Kyle Meyer. Meyer, an incoming freshman from Alpharetta, Ga., tweeted Monday morning, “I feel extremely blessed today. My step moms brother died at Pocono by a lightning strike. Keep my family in [...]

Iowa’s men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery is on a recruiting hot streak. McCaffery secured his fifth recruit for the 2012-13 class when point guard Anthony Clemmons gave him an oral commitment this morning, according to Tom Kakert of Hawkeye Report. It’s McCaffery’s fourth commitment since Aug. 8. Clemmons, who stands 6-foot-1, hails from Lansing, Mich. [...]

Iowa will have at least two possible recruits on campus this weekend, including one in an official capacity. Prime target Gabe Olaseni, a 6-foot-9 post, is visiting this weekend, according to Tom Kakert of www.HawkeyeReport.com. Olaseni is a London, England native and helped lead Sunrise Christian Academy from Wichita, Kan., to the NACA Division I [...]

Point guard Cezar Guerrero, a key target for Iowa’s men’s basketball team, committed to Oklahoma State late last night, according to his Facebook page. Guerrero, who attended Iowa’s 67-65 upset win against then No. 6 Purdue, picked the Cowboys over Iowa and Oklahoma. He will compete this fall. Guerrero’s choice comes one day after Iowa received [...]

  IOWA CITY —Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery earned his first commit for the 2012 class.  Junior Kyle Meyer, a 6-foot-10 post/forward from Alpharetta, Ga., announced today he has accepted a scholarship to play for McCaffery in 2012. Meyer, who played for Northview High School and the Atlanta Celtics AAU team, said he felt comfortable with [...]

Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery apparently has locked up his first recruit from the 2012 class, according to a basketball source. Kyle Meyer, a 6-foot-10 junior post from Northview High School in Alpharetta, Ga., will announce his decision at 5 p.m. EST Monday. In a phone interview Sunday, Meyer declined to reveal the commitment and instead [...]