Francis John McCaffery [1] (born May 23, 1959) is an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach at the University of Iowa. He has taken four Division I programs to postseason tournaments, including the Iowa Hawkeyes, who reached the final of the 2013 National Invitation Tournament and have reached the NCAA ...

5 days ago · Sports Illustrated has listed Iowa men's basketball head coach Fran McCaffery among those on the hot seat. ... Fran McCaffery, Iowa Hawkeyes. McCaffery is in Year 15 in Iowa City. It’s been a successful tenure overall, with seven NCAA tournament appearances and some high-level teams lately with Luka Garza and Keegan Murray. But things feel ...

McCaffery, who is the Big Ten’s third longest tenured head coach behind Michigan State’s Tom Izzo and Matt Painter of Purdue, has an Iowa record 280 career victories, including a record 136 Big Ten wins.

3 days ago · Is there an obvious choice to replace Fran McCaffery at Iowa? Sports Illustrated reports that many believe that coach is Darian DeVries of West Virginia. DeVries grew up in Aplington, Iowa, and went to high school at Aplington-Parkersburg. He played basketball collegiately at UNI before joining the coaching staff at Creighton University.

4 days ago · The Iowa Hawkeyes may have some tough decisions to make following the 2024-25 men's college basketball season. As fans are fully aware of, the season has not gone according to plan. It has been an ...

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Jan 31, 2025 · McCaffery's contract, which was signed in 2021, runs through the 2027-28 season, but it does not leave Iowa on the hook for a hefty lump sum. McCaffery's career record is 543-375. That career consists of stops at Lehigh (1985-88), a 10-year stint as a Notre Dame assistant, UNC Greensboro (1999-2005), Siena (2005-10) and Iowa.

6 days ago · IOWA CITY — Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said Monday that star sophomore Owen Freeman would have been at risk of "permanent injury" if he had continued playing this season. Freeman will miss the ...

Feb 19, 2024 · Fran McCaffery said he is “not retiring anytime soon.” The Iowa men’s basketball coach of 14 years is 64, five years younger than his Tuesday counterpart, Tom Izzo of Michigan State.

Jan 17, 2024 · The NCAA tourney, of course, is where Fran McCaffery’s 14-year tenure at Iowa brings out negative comments.