Over the course of 10 weeks, we’re counting down Fran McCaffery’s squads as head coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes. Below are links to previous iterations in the series:
After a run to the NIT finals, the Iowa Hawkeyes returned all but Eric May’s seven starts. As a result, they entered the season with the highest KenPom ranking of Fran McCaffery’s tenure at 15, though they didn’t enter the AP Top 25 until the third week of the season.
Things started pretty well, with just two non-conference losses to good Villanova and Iowa State teams.