Fran Live Tuesday at 2 p.m. (CT)

March 5, 2012

IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa head men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery will meet with media Tuesday to discuss the Hawkeyes and the upcoming 2012 Big Ten Tournament.

The visit with local, regional and national media assembled in the Press Room at Carver-Hawkeye Arena will begin at 2 p.m. (CT), and will be available live from start to finish on Hawkeye All-Access, the multi-media portal inside hawkeyesports.com, the official World Wide Web of the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Iowa heads to Indianapolis as the No. 8 seed after finishing the regular season with a 16-15 overall record and an 8-10 mark in Big Ten play. The Hawkeyes’ first round opponent, Illinois, is 17-14 overall and a 6-12 record in the league. The two teams square off at 10:30 a.m. (CT) at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

The Iowa-Illinois winner will square off against the tournament No. 1 seed Michigan State on Friday at 11 a.m. (CT) on ESPN.

In addition to live coverage of each of McCaffery’s weekly press conferences, subscribers to Hawkeye All-Access also have exclusive access to the weekly visits with the media of UI head football coach Kirk Ferentz and Hawkeye women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder, live and exclusive coverage of Ferentz’s, McCaffery’s and Bluder’s postgame media conference after home events, live and exclusive coverage of the weekly “Hawk Talk” radio shows of Iowa’s head football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball coaches, and the live play-by-play of every Iowa men’s basketball game featuring the Hawkeye Radio Network’s Gary Dolphin and Bobby Hansen, and all football, women’s basketball and wrestling events.

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