Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Hawkeye fans are poised to get their first look at Iowa’s new offense on Saturday. Will it impress? The Iowa Hawkeyes have had a tremendous week. But that was on the hardwood with the men’s team landing a commitment from former Morehead State point guard Drew Thelwell and the women landing a massive commitment from former Villanova PG Lucy Olsen. And of course, all-world former Hawkeye Caitlin Clark heard her name called #1 overall in the WNBA draft to kick the week off. Now, Hawkeye Nation turns its attention to the gridiron where the Iowa football team is ..read more

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Hawkeyes go to the Ohio Valley to add guard depth. Portal season is here and while Iowa will never be a program built on a roster full of transfers, the Hawkeyes are again active in the portal this cycle. That started with the news that seniors Patrick McCaffery (Butler) and Tony Perkins (Mizzou) would be exiting for the portal, alongside sophomore Dasonte Bowen (undecided). The departures left Iowa with three open scholarships to fill this spring. Fran McCaffery and company got to work rather quickly and have been linked to a number of prospects. Most ..read more

Caitlin Clark changed the women’s game of basketball | Photo by Thien-An Truong/ISI Photos/Getty Images The Hawkeyes move into a post-Caitlin Clark world Do you remember that time when the Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team played in back-to-back national championship games? Yeah, that was awesome! Chris Farley approves of Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes Much has been said and written about Coach Lisa Bluder’s Hawkeye basketball team. As someone who has watched and written about 90+% of the Iowa women’s games in the last four years, I still shake my head at just how good this team was ..read more

Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports Caitlin Clark was taken 1st by Indiana while Kate Martin went 18th to Las Vegas After a sensational season where she led the Iowa Hawkeyes to a second straight national championship game, Caitlin Clark was selected first overall by the Indiana Fever. It was a no drama night for Indiana as the announcement was made while a huge crowd watched from the Fever’s arena. Caitlin Clark is an Indiana Fever. #WNBADraft pic.twitter.com/LBWhnalnZA — Zion Brown (@z10nbr0wn) April 15, 2024 She is the highest drafted Hawkeye since Keegan Murray at 4 in 2022’s NBA Draft and the ..read more

Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK The older and older I get, the more and more I tend to think about my high school basketball team. Sometimes, if I think hard enough, I can still smell the gym and hear the creaks and moans of the tan floorboards under my Nike Shox. I can hear the “THUD” of the four green doors that led to the hallways of my school. I can still feel the butterflies in the pit of my stomach that I would have every time I got into the lay-up line when we had to face off against our town rival (Plainfield South). It feels like I was rushing out of that unfortuna ..read more

Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK For the final time in 2024, the Hawkeyes are poised to take the floor with a national title on the line. It all comes down to this. The culmination of not just a season of work and effort, but of four years of building fandom, excitement and blood, sweat and tears for this group of Hawkeyes. Iowa is poised to take the floor for the final time in 2024 with a national championship on the line. It’s a remarkable line to type and as a Hawkeye fan, it’s a remarkable line to read. Iowa is playing for a national championship. Again. As exhilarating ..read more

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports The internet’s most rational and objective experts weigh in The #1 Iowa Hawkeyes advanced to their second straight national championship appearance last night after a 71-69 nail biter over the UConn Huskies. It was a heavyweight bout that lived up to each story line put on it in the lead up to tip off. Paige Bueckers vs. Caitlin Clark. Geno Auriemma vs. Lisa Bluder. UConn’s pursuit of its thirteenth national championship appearance vs. Iowa’s quest for its second straight. With less than ten seconds to play, the Huskies with the ball, and Iowa clinging to a one point ..read more

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Can the Hawkeyes make a second straight NCAA Championship game on Caitlin Clark’s 2024 revenge tour? For the second straight year, the Iowa Hawkeyes find themselves in the Final Four. However, the setting in 2024 is dramatically different than we saw in 2023. A year ago, Iowa entered the Final Four as an underdog story with a shining star who was bringing people to the edge of their seat. They played the role of David to South Carolina’s Goliath. The Gamecocks were fresh off their second national title in five tournaments (coincidentally, over a Paige Bueckers-led UC ..read more

Clark wins back-to-back Naismith awards | Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images Caitlin Clark adds more hardware to her legacy. Caitlin Clark won the 2024 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy for the second consecutive year in one of the least surprising award announcements ever. The Naismith Award goes to the most outstanding player in women’s college basketball. Clark beat out Cameron Brink (Standford), Paige Bueckers (UConn - and Iowa’s opponent Friday), and JuJu Watkins (USC phenom) to win the prestigious award. Clark became the 8th player to win the award back-to-back and the 10th overall to win the ..read more

Gregory Fisher-USA TODAY Sports THE HAWKS ARE BACK IN THE FINAL FOUR Y’ALL FOLKS, YOUR IOWA HAWKEYES ARE BACK IN THE FINAL FOUR FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR. THIS IS NOT A DREAM AND IT IS DEFINITELY ALL-CAPS WORTHY. I’ve watched this team for a long time, starting as a student reporter for The Daily Iowan during the 2012-13 season. Back then, I fell in love with the program and this coaching staff, but remember thinking just how much of a talent gap there was between top-tier programs like UConn, Notre Dame, etc. I knew it would be awhile before our program — and really, women’s college bas ..read more