The Iowa Hawkeyes have beat virtually every expectation for the 2021-2022 basketball season, even those of the most optimistic among Hawkeyes fans. Iowa finished the regular season on an absolute tear to tie for fourth place in the Big Ten. They went on to win four games in four days en route to the program’s first Big Ten Tournament Championship in 16 years.
They enter the NCAA Tournament as a 5 seed with a 26-9 record - the most wins in a season since the 1986-1987 Hawkeyes won 30 games. The Hawkeyes now set their sites on the school’s first Sweet 16 since 1999.