The Iowa Hawkeyes men’s basketball team represents the University of Iowa at Iowa City, Iowa, as a member of the Big Ten Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Coach Fran McCaffery is the current head coach, and has been at Iowa.
The Hawkeyes won eight Big Ten regular-season conference championships have played 26 NCAA Tournaments, eight NIT Tournaments and won the Big Ten championship. Iowa has played in the Final Four on three occasions, reaching the semifinals in 1955 and 1980 and playing in the championship match against the University of San Francisco in 1956.
Iowa basketball was widely effective in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s using a schedule resurgence under Lute Olson and the tenures of George Raveling and Tom Davis. Under Olson, the Hawkeyes went to the 1980 Final Four and won their last regular season championship.
They play Arena, together with Iowa women’s basketball, wrestling, and volleyball teams.
Before playing Carver-Hawkeye Arena, which opened in 1983,[6] the Hawkeyes played in the Iowa Armory and the Iowa Field House, which is still utilized today by the institution’s gymnastics teams. The Hawkeyes accumulated a school-record 21 wins at home before dropping to rival Northern Iowa.
Four Iowa coaches have been inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame: Sam Barry, Ralph Miller, Lute Olson and George Raveling.
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