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Jeff Borzello
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- Graduate of College of Delaware.
Mar 24, 2025, 08:48 AM ET
Iowa has employed Drake’s Ben McCollum as its subsequent males’s basketball trainer, the varsity introduced Monday.
McCollum simply completed his first season at Drake, main the Bulldogs to a 31-4 file and this system’s first look within the NCAA match’s spherical of 32 since 1971. They received the Missouri Valley Convention’s regular-season and match titles prior to beating 6-seed Missouri within the first spherical of the NCAA match. Drake misplaced to Texas Tech in the second one spherical on Saturday.
McCollum received Missouri Valley Trainer of the 12 months honors and used to be named a semifinalist for the Naismith Trainer of the 12 months award.
McCollum, an Iowa Town local, replaces Fran McCaffery, whom Iowa disregarded previous this month after 15 seasons because the Hawkeyes’ head trainer. He used to be the varsity’s all-time wins chief with 197 and led this system to seven NCAA match appearances.
Iowa hasn’t complex previous the primary weekend of the NCAA match since 1999.
Previous to taking on at Drake, McCollum used to be probably the most a success school basketball coaches within the nation at Department II Northwest Missouri State. He led the Bearcats to 4 Department II nationwide championships and a 394-91 file all through his 15 seasons on the helm.
Underneath McCollum, Northwest Missouri State received 11 immediately MIAA regular-season titles to finish his tenure (and 12 general). Earlier than he used to be named head trainer, this system had received simply 4 MIAA titles over the former 62 seasons. The Bearcats went 38-0 in 2018-19 and suffered only one loss in each the 2016-17 and 2019-20 seasons.
