By JOHN BOHNENKAMP The Drake-to-Iowa pipeline kept flowing late Friday night with the addition of Tavion Banks. Banks, a 6-foot-7 guard/forward, signed with the Hawkeyes to become the fifth Bulldog to join coach Ben McCollum. Banks was a key part … Continue reading Iowa Adds Drake’s Banks
By JOHN BOHNENKAMP New Iowa coach Ben McCollum made his best pitch to keep Josh Dix and Pryce Sandfort. It wasn’t good enough — the two former Hawkeyes announced on Friday where they were going to be playing next year. … Continue reading Dix, Sandfort Find New Homes; Traore Enters Transfer Portal
By JOHN BOHNENKAMP Two former Drake players announced their commitments to Iowa on Wednesday. Forward Cam Manyawu and guard Kael Combs announced on social media that they would be joining the Hawkeyes and new coach Ben McCollum, who coached them … Continue reading Manyawu, Combs Commit To Hawkeyes
By JOHN BOHNENKAMP Ben McCollum will have a couple of familiar faces next to him on the bench at Iowa next season. The new head coach of the Hawkeyes announced on Tuesday that Josh Sash and Bryston Williams, who were … Continue reading McCollum Names First Members Of Coaching Staff
By JOHN BOHNENKAMP Ben McCollum’s pitch to Cooper Koch worked. McCollum, hired as Iowa’s new men’s basketball coach last week, said he wanted to see the Hawkeyes who had entered the NCAA transfer portal come back, and Koch became the … Continue reading Koch Chooses To Return To Iowa
By JOHN BOHNENKAMP IOWA CITY, Iowa — Ben McCollum used his introductory press conference as Iowa’s new men’s basketball coach on Tuesday as a recruiting pitch to rebuild the Hawkeyes’ roster. He wouldn’t mind starting with some members of this … Continue reading McCollum’s Next Task Is Building Hawkeyes’ Roster
By JOHN BOHNENKAMP IOWA CITY, Iowa — Ben McCollum said he grew up a fan of Iowa’s men’s basketball team and then he name-dropped Wade Lookingbill, Val Barnes and Mon’ter Glasper and yeah, he was a fan. The guy who … Continue reading ‘You Can’t Complicate Winning’: McCollum Drops All The Right Notes, And Names
By JOHN BOHNENKAMP It was the perfect ending for Iowa’s search for a new men’s basketball coach. Drake’s Ben McCollum was hired Monday to take over the program, and in the end Iowa athletics director Beth Goetz made the best … Continue reading THE MONDAY TIPOFF: The Hiring Was Easy, But Now Comes The Hard Part
By JOHN BOHNENKAMP NORMAL, Ill. — The seats filled with purple-clad fans impressed Mia Nicastro. Western Illinois’ women’s basketball team had been eliminated from the tournament it wasn’t originally going to be in, yet Nicastro and the Leathernecks were grateful … Continue reading ILLINOIS STATE 90, WIU 80: A Perfect Farewell For The Leathernecks
By JOHN BOHNENKAMP MACOMB, Ill. — Western Illinois cashed in on bonus basketball. The Leathernecks took the postseason invitation they didn’t expect to get, and kept dancing — no, really, they were dancing — with an 89-74 win over Lipscomb … Continue reading WIU 89, LIPSCOMB 74: Bonus Basketball Is Fun For Leathernecks
