The Fran McCaffery period of males’s Iowa basketball has concluded. The longtime Hawkeyes basketball coach was fired on Friday after 15 seasons.
The legendary head coach has a profession file of 548-384 throughout 29 seasons of teaching. Throughout his lengthy profession, he coached at Lehigh, UNC Greensboro, Siena and Iowa.
In Iowa’s loss and elimination from the Massive Ten Event on Thursday night time, McCaffery was ejected from what grew to become his last sport because the Hawkeyes head coach.
The writing was on the wall for McCaffery, as he had not led Iowa to the NCAA Event for the reason that 2022-23 season. The Hawkeyes have additionally not gotten above No. 25 within the AP Ballot for the reason that 2021-22 season.
To color a fair greater image, Iowa has not superior previous the second spherical of the NCAA Event for the reason that 2014-15 season, McCaffery’s fifth season as head coach. Ten years with out an look within the Candy 16 is hard to outlive at any Energy 5 college.
It’s unclear if McCaffery will proceed his teaching profession. Even when he decides to not, he’ll undoubtedly go down as one of many best faculty basketball coaches ever.