Updated March 22, 2026, 8:15 p.m. CT
It’s been a minute since the Iowa males’s basketball group performed in the Sweet 16.
Twenty-seven years, to be actual.
Coach Tom Davis’ remaining Hawkeye group superior to the NCAA Tournament regional semifinals in 1999, shedding to eventual nationwide champion UConn.
Iowa posted a 20-10 file throughout the 1998-99 season. The Hawkeyes beat UAB 77-64 and Arkansas 82-72 in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament earlier than shedding to the Huskies 78-68.
Some of Iowa’s prime gamers that season had been Jess Settles, Dean Oliver, Kent McCausland and J.R. Koch (whose son Cooper Koch is on the present Hawkeye group).
Davis was knowledgeable earlier than the 1998-99 season that his contract wouldn’t be renewed after 13 years in Iowa City. His group despatched him off on a optimistic be aware. Davis later coached at Drake earlier than retiring.
Davis’ successors (Steve Alford, Todd Lickliter and Fran McCaffery) had been unable to get the Hawkeyes to a Sweet 16.
Ben McCollum’s first Iowa group is enjoying Florida on Sunday night time in the spherical of 32. The winner goes to the Sweet 16 in Houston.
