Fans will get their first chance to see the 2010-11 Iowa basketball team on the court together on Saturday when a shirts-and-skins game – a long-time Iowa tradition – is held at Carver-Hawkeye Arena at 8:30 a.m. prior to the Hawkeyes’ 11 a.m. kickoff against Eastern Illinois. The shirt-and-skins games typically last around an hour [...]

The last time I spoke with Rock Island native Sharm Scheuerman I was talking to him from a place he remembered well. It was before Iowa’s basketball game at Northwestern last season and I arrived early to phone Scheuerman to talk with him for a piece I was working on about Galva native Rich Falk, [...]

Unviersity president Sally Mason’s signature on Monday finalized the contract of new Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery, which was released on Wednesday by the school and includes details of the six-year deal the parties agreed to. McCaffery’s annual base salary begins at $650,000 through June 30, 2012 and escalates to $900,000 in the sixth year of the contract. [...]

Former Hawkeye Jeff Peterson is back on the court, preparing for his junior season at Arkansas. The Iowa transfer averaged 8 points and just under 7 assists per game while playing for the East Coast All-Stars, a group of 10 collegiate players who went 1-4 during a tour of Switzerland and France. In a release [...]

ESPN unveiled its Super Tuesday schedule for the 2010-11 basketball season today, but Iowa will not be among the teams televised on the weekly doubleheader that includes one Big Ten game and one from the SEC. Actually only six Big Ten programs will be featured during the eight-week run in the upcoming season. Purdue will [...]

The last piece of Iowa’s four-member 2010 basketball recruiting class is in place. Point guard Bryce Cartwright has passed needed coursework this summer at Paris Junior College in Texas and is scheduled to arrive in Iowa City later this week for the start of fall semester classes later this month. “Bryce has worked hard to [...]

Iowa’s game at Wake Forest in the 12th ACC/Big Ten Challenge will be televised by ESPNU, it was announced today. The Hawkeyes will visit the Demon Deacons at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 30, the second of three days for this year’s series between the two leagues. Pairings for the Challenge were announced earlier, but [...]

Iowa remains on the refined list of schools that Cedar Rapids Washington guard Josh Oglesby is considering. The 6-foot-5 combo guard has cut his list of college possibilities to four and plans to visit Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Arizona State before reaching a decision later this fall on where he will continue his basketball career. [...]

Apparently, Pierre Pierce can still play the game. The former Iowa basketball player - grudgingly removed from the Hawkeye roster by coach Steve Alford five years ago following the 6-foot-4 guard’s second arrest in three seasons – is taking his skills to the top league in Greece next season. According to the Euroleague website, Pierce signed a one-year [...]

Jarrod Uthoff’s announcement tonight that he will sign with Wisconsin in November should provide fans with an eye-opening reflection on the state of college basketball in the state of Iowa. The Cedar Rapids Jefferson forward had previously cut his list of college possibilities to six, saying that he hoped to remain close to home. While fans at Iowa, Iowa [...]