While it may seem like Iowa’s football season just started a few weeks ago, we’re somehow less than a month away from the open tip of Iowa’s 2019-20 men’s basketball campaign. While high-profile transfers, a Cy-Hawk College Gameday, and marching band drama may have monopolized your attention over the past few months, it’s worth revisiting the 2018-19 season as we start to look ahead at what’s in store for Year Ten(?!) of the Fran McCaffery era.
After a bitterly disappointing 2017-18 season in which the Hawkeyes managed to win only fourteen games, expectations for Iowa were fairly modest coming into last year.