Iowa will visit Boston College in the 10th annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge, the conference announced today.
The Hawkeyes have a road game in this year’s event and will play in Boston on Tuesday, Dec. 2, the first meeting between Iowa and Boston College since 1974. BC won the only previous meeting between the schools.
The road test [...]

It was 52 weeks ago today that Todd Lickliter was introduced as the new basketball coach at Iowa.
The competitiveness of the coach Gary Barta hired probably leaves him less-than-satisfied with the on-court results of his first season in Iowa City. I’d argue that a pretty solid foundation is in the process of being laid, both [...]

Iowa’s latest men’s basketball commitment continues a trend.
Devan Bawinkel of Highland Community College adds to the Hawkeyes’ collection of mid-sized shooters who bring a strong shooting touch and plenty of versatility to the mix. Those are the type of players who thrived in the system Iowa coaches used when they were at Butler and it [...]

Iowa drew one of the most experienced tournament teams for its opening-round match in this year’s NCAA women’s basketball tournament.
Overshadowed only slightly by Tennessee in the Southeastern Conference, the Bulldogs have been one of the nation’s top programs during the 28 seasons Andy Landers has been Georgia’s head coach. He’s led his program to 25 NCAA [...]

The Iowa women’s basketball team is expected to receive an NCAA berth when pairings are announced Monday night. Although Iowa ended up in the WNIT as a 20-9 team three years ago, Iowa’s 21-10 record is expected to be more than enough to earn the Hawkeyes a berth.
The difference? Iowa went 8-8 in the Big [...]

The season came to a merciful end for the Iowa men’s basketball team on Thursday in the opening round of the Big Ten tourney. Iowa 55-47 loss to Michigan was a struggle from the start and in some respects, the Big Ten Network did fans who can’t yet receive the fledging operation a favor by keeping [...]

Iowa’s first-round match-up in the Big Ten tourney with Michigan is an interesting one for a number of reasons.
Both teams have first-year coaches, both have a limited number of scholarship players to work with and the two played a strange set of games against each other that were both decided by eight points.
Iowa shot the [...]

A chance to watch his son play in Iowa’s Class 4A state basketball tournament gave first-year Iowa coach Todd Lickliter a first-hand view of the event and the son of a high school coach who spent 12 seasons on the bench himself came away impressed.
“It was a great environment, great competition and in a great setting,” Lickliter [...]

A nine-day break between games at the end of the regular season and the start of the conference tournament isn’t necessarily a great thing.
Iowa finds itself coping with that this week for the first time since the Big Ten began tourney play and coach Todd Lickliter will attempt to find a balance between needed practice time and a [...]

Todd Lickliter refuses to buy into the notion that his Iowa basketball team may be suffering some fatigue from the rigors of a long season.
“They’re 19 and 20 years old. They get a two-minute break every four minutes of every half (because of media timeouts). They should be able to play all day,” Lickliter said.
Still, a lack of [...]