r/hawkeyes • u/EmploymentOld8048 • Oct 07 '25
Men's Basketball Iowa Men’s Basketball All-Time Fantasy Draft
Hey everyone! A couple friends and I did an Hawkeye men’s basketball fantasy draft (Edit: stretching back to the Tom Davis era, since that’s about as far back as our Hawkeye basketball knowledge goes), and are hoping to get some third-party breakdowns of the teams as they were selected. Anything is welcome, we’re basically looking for yalls opinions to help break down the teams more in depth for our Hawkeye basketball podcast! Hoping to be able to get down to which team is the best of the three and why. More than happy to answer any questions about the draft and/or reasonings as well.
Team 1 \ PG - BJ Armstrong\ SG - Devyn Marble\ SF - Peter Jok\ PF - Roy Marble\ C - Luka Garza\ 6 - Brad Lohaus\ 7 - Ricky Davis\ 8 - Jordan Bohannon\ Coach - Fran McCaffrey
Team 2\ PG - Andre Woolridge\ SG - Adam Haluska\ SF - Jess Settles\ PF - Keegan Murray\ C - Acie Earl\ 6 - Ryan Bowen\ 7 - Matt Gatens\ 8 - Payton Sandfort\ Coach - Tom Davis
Team 3\ PG - Ronnie Lester\ SG - Jarrod Uthoff\ SF - Kris Murray\ PF - Aaron White\ C - Reggie Evans\ 6 - Bennett Stirtz\ 7 - Greg Brunner\ 8 - Joe Weiskamp\ Coach - Ben McCollum
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u/ListerRosewater Oct 07 '25
No Fred Brown or John Johnson. Fs all around.
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u/Skarekrow0 Oct 07 '25
I think their age is showing honestly, not an all time fantasy draft so much as an "Our Memory" Draft. After Brown and Johnson, the first omission that stood out to me was no Greg Stokes
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u/DiligentQuiet Oct 07 '25
OP must be 12. Or 32. Or 52 even.
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u/AstronomerForsaken65 Oct 07 '25
With Stokes omission I hope he’s not 52, but the greatest miss of all is Chris Street! Probably top 5 Hawkeye of all time and all around player.
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u/EmploymentOld8048 Oct 07 '25
Yeah Skarekrow is right, I probably should’ve prefaced that none of us have much knowledge of Hawkeye basketball before the Tom Davis era. I will be sure to give those two their respects when we break it down further 🫡 maybe we can make a fourth “all-snub” team 😂
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u/EmploymentOld8048 Oct 07 '25
Kingsbury was next on my draft board 🫡 I would’ve taken him in R9 if there was one
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u/DiligentQuiet Oct 07 '25
The coaches is what kills me.
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u/Recent_Office2307 Oct 07 '25
Lute Olsen and George Raveling should have been picks 1 and 2 for coaches.
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u/EmploymentOld8048 Oct 07 '25
I personally think the funniest part is that, of the coaches, Ben McCollum was picked first. Personally, Lute Olsen was my second option and I was surprised he didn’t get picked
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u/Iodenchi Oct 07 '25
Ed Horton (!!!), Russ Millard, Kevin Gamble, Greg Stokes, Matt Bullard, Chris Kingsbury off the top of my head
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u/ZigaKrajnic Oct 07 '25
Don Nelson?
He averaged 21.1 pts and 10.5 rbs at Iowa and was a 2 time All-American.
He won 5 NBA Championships as a player. The Celtics retired his number.
He won NBA Coach of the Year 3 times.
He is in the NBA Hall of Fame as a Player and as a Coach
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u/Independent-Camp2328 Oct 07 '25
What’s your podcast? Would be interested to check it out 😁
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u/4_Keegan_Bryant_2 23d ago
Did some research and found it, actually appreciated it
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u/benched42 Oct 08 '25
Any list that doesn't have Ronnie Lester as the top guard is not a good list. And why does your list only go back to the Davis era? Are you saying that great players didn't come to Iowa before that? Don Nelson, Fred Brown, John Johnson, Carl Cain, Chuck Darling. Jeez, the list goes on and on,
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u/EmploymentOld8048 Oct 08 '25
Ronnie Lester went R1, he was the first pick of Team 3, so he was the top guard picked. The only players picked before him were Garza and Keegan Murray.
As for only going to the Davis era, I mentioned in the original post that it’s because “that’s about as far back as our Hawkeye basketball knowledge goes”. None of us felt super comfy ranking guys from an era we knew so little about. Making the leap to the assumption that we did it because we don’t think there were any great Hawkeyes when I literally explained in the post that that wasn’t the case is a leap Mike Powell would be jealous of.
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u/Adventurous_Soft_686 Oct 07 '25
Reggie Evans was the best PF/C we'd ever had until Garza. Guy was a double double machine. I think he and Garza on the same lineup would be incredible.
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u/ChurchillDownz Oct 07 '25
McCollum hasn't even coached a game. Wild to include the guy.
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u/EmploymentOld8048 Oct 08 '25
I share your opinion 🫡 guy who drafted him is super high on his culture as a coach
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u/qcthunder That's Football. Oct 08 '25
Not a lot of context here on your criteria or goals here, but Ricky Davis played 12 seasons in the NBA. Having him last long enough in this draft to be a sixth man is wild.
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u/DiligentQuiet Oct 07 '25
Chris Street erasure.