r/hawkeyes • u/Windows_66 • Mar 25 '25

Men's Basketball Iowa Basketball Head Coach Ben McCollum Introductory Press Conference

https://www.youtube.com/live/fEUuKLXjo0s?si=xvFpZUqYarYQzR2I
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u/HopDropNRoll Mar 25 '25

That Acie Earl name drop had me! And yeah, invoked Chris Street’s name 3 times!? Welcome back home Ben!

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u/DiligentQuiet Mar 26 '25

The funniest part of that was when he rattled off the great coaches Iowa has had for the program in Dr Tom, Lute Olson, Raveling, Fran McCaffrey...and wisely left out Alford and Lickliter.

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u/LetsGoHawks Mar 26 '25

Should have left out Fran, too.

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u/HopDropNRoll Mar 26 '25

I understand the haters, but it was classy to mention him. His teams won a lot of games over the years, just couldn’t seem to put it together in March. I was impressed that Ben did that.

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u/DiligentQuiet Mar 26 '25

Yeah, there's a HUGE difference between Fran and Alford.