The Iowa Hawkeyes men’s basketball Staff represents the University of Iowa at Iowa City, Iowa, as a Part of the Big Ten Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Coach Fran McCaffery was at Iowa since 2010, and is the head coach.
The Hawkeyes have played 26 NCAA Tournaments, eight NIT Tournaments, won eight Big Ten regular-season conference championships and won the Big Ten tournament double. Iowa has played in the Final Four on three occasions, reaching the semifinals in 1955 and 1980 and playing in the championship game against the University of San Francisco in 1956.
Iowa basketball was widely effective in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s using a schedule resurgence under Lute Olson and the tenures of George Raveling and Tom Davis. Beneath Olson, the Hawkeyes went to the 1980 Final Four and won their Big Ten regular season championship.
They currently play 15,400-seat Carver-Hawkeye Arena, together with Iowa women’s basketball, wrestling, and volleyball teams.
Prior to playing in Carver-Hawkeye Arena, which started in 1983,[6] that the Hawkeyes played in the Iowa Armory and the Iowa Field House, which is still used today by the school’s gymnastics teams. Before losing to in-state rival Northern Iowa the Hawkeyes accumulated a school-record 21 successive 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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