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Iowa basketball: Hawks hot on recruiting trail for this 5-star recruit

Every year there are a few D-1 players playing high school hoops in the state of Iowa, but it’s not often that there is a five-star recruit. In fact, it’s quite rare. There was Harrison Barnes nearly a decade ago and now there is Oskaloosa’s Xavier Foster. Unlike the Barnes situation where the Iowa basketball team was never even in the picture, the Hawks have a shot at the 7’0” Foster.

And they are hot on his trail.

With the college basketball season concluded, Iowa basketball head coach Fran McCaffery is focusing his efforts on recruiting the big man who is located just a short 1.