Hawkeye basketball fans were confronted with two significant announcements from Iowa athletic director Gary Barta on Wednesday. The first announcement was viewed by many as a welcome relief; Gary Dolphin, the “Voice of the Iowa Hawkeyes,” will be re-instated at the beginning of spring football after being suspended for the remainder of the 2018-19 basketball season for referring to Maryland sophomore Bruno Fernando, a native of Angola, as “King Kong.” Barta also announced that head coach Fran McCaffery will serve a two-game suspension for his profanity-laced verbal confrontation with official Steve McJunkins after Iowa’s loss to Ohio State in which McCaffery accused McJunkins of foul play.
Dolph, Fran, and “Iowa Nice”
