Counting down Fran McCaffery’s teams at Iowa

As weird as it feels, today would have been the first day of the offseason if not for COVID-19. Whether the Iowa Hawkeyes would have played until yesterday is a fool’s errand (unless you’re Evan Miyakawa), but the off time has given some distance to compare the various teams Fran McCaffery has put together.

Since it’s a beautiful round number, we’ll break this guy into a separate post per year, spanning 10 weeks. But before we get there, let’s dive into some tenure-spanning views I find interesting.

Ken Pomery’s site has produced ratings as long as I can remember and has season-level data going back into the 90s. While it is not the be-all-end-all, it does provide a solid baseline view for…