STYLE OF PLAY
• PLAYING WITH PASSION AND A LOVE OF THE GAME
• PUSHING THE BALL AND AGGRESSIVELY ATTACKING THE BASKET
• SHARING THE BASKETBALL, FINDING THE OPEN TEAMMATE
• CHANGING DEFENSE AND DISRUPTING THE RHYTHM OF THE OPPONENTS
• SINKING THE OPEN 3-POINTER
• HELPING OUT TEAMMATES
“Players and fans enjoy our style of basketball. We play an up-tempo style, push the ball, attack the basket, and catch the defense off balance. We want to score in the 80's and 90's. Defensively, we change defenses and disrupt rhythm. Our players have fun and enjoy what they do on the floor."
Iowa Head Coach Fran McCaffery
CONSIDER THESE FACTS
• Iowa has won three Big Ten Tournament championships, including winning four games in four days to raise the trophy in 2022 in Indianapolis.
• The Hawkeyes have led the league in scoring six times in the last 11 seasons. Iowa has averaged 80+ points in four consecutive seasons.
• Iowa has had a consensus All-American in four of the last five seasons: Luka Garza in 2020 and 2021 (first team), Keegan Murray in 2022 (first team), and Kris Murray in 2023 (third team). Garza, a two-time national player of the year, is the only player in Big Ten history to amass 2,250+ points, 900+ rebounds, 150+ blocks and 100+ 3-pointers. Keegan Murray joined Texas’ Kevin Durant as the only players in Division I history to amass more than 800 points, 60 blocks, and 60 3-pointers in a season. Kris Murray was the only Division I player in 2023 to average 20+ points, 7+ rebounds, 1+ blocks and make 65+ 3-pointers.
• The Hawkeyes have had Big Ten scoring champions three times since 2020: Luka Garza in 2020 (26.2) and 2021 (21.9), and Keegan Murray in 2022 (23.5). Iowa became the first school to have a men’s basketball player lead the Big Ten in scoring three straight seasons since Purdue from 1968-70.
• Iowa has won 10 or more Big Ten games nine of the last 10 seasons.
• Iowa has won 20 wins or more games in eight of the last 12 seasons and posted Big Ten upper division finishes 11 of the last 12 years. Furthermore, the Hawkeyes have finished fifth or better seven of the last 10 seasons, including third place finishes in 2015, 2016 and 2021.
• Iowa shares the basketball, ranking second or better in the Big Ten in assists per game each of the past eight seasons (2017-24), including ranking in sixth or better nationally, four of the last eight years. Iowa was tops in the country in assists per game (19.2) in 2021 and first in assist-to-turnover ratio two of the last four seasons (2.0 in 2021 and 1.74 in 2022).
• Luka Garza (24.1) and Joe Wieskamp (14.8) combined to average 38.9 points per game, which was the fifth best scoring duo in the country in 2021, and second highest scoring tandem in school history. Keegan Murray (822) and Jordan Bohannon (395) combined for 1,217 points in 2022, becoming the third highest scoring duo in program history.
