Over the last several years, the Iowa Hawkeyes have slowly built and refined their recruiting strategy to fully take advantage of the NCAA recruiting calendar. The last several years, that’s involved building relationships early, getting prospects on campus as juniors and filling a good chunk of the class before summer rolls around. That opens the door for a big recruiting weekend with the majority of already committed players to to make official visits alongside the top remaining targets.
This cycle, that big recruiting weekend came last weekend with the Hawkeyes hosting eleven of their twelve committed players, as well as nearly a dozen uncommitted prospects.