Iowa’s basketball season starts shortly, but it looks like there was one last piece of offseason news to pump out before the Hawks take on UMKC tonight, as Fran McCaffery announced that Jack Nunge would use his redshirt this season.
The move is curious - why didn’t they have him redshirt last season? - but all-in-all, it’s one that makes sense. Nunge really struggled as a true freshman and admitted that went through a crisis of confidence at times, which limited the role he was able to play. He was a heralded three-point shooter coming off a senior season where he was Indiana’s Mr.