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Ben McCollum, a coaching guru from Division II, just guided the Iowa Hawkeyes over No. 1 Florida.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

This season, the deliberate Hawkeyes have played the fifth-slowest pace of any team in all of college basketball.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

For the next three quarters, the Bruins made the Hawkeyes look like a grade-school team, not a program that reached the national championship games twice in the last three years.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026

Iowa won 74-61, the No. 25 Hawkeyes holding off the Bruins by making the plays they needed over the final foul-filled minutes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2026

But then again, few believed they would survive Iowa after the Hawkeyes took that big second-quarter lead.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025