{"id":434653,"date":"2025-03-24T14:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=434653"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:03:21","slug":"iowa-to-hire-drakes-ben-mccollum-as-next-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/iowa-to-hire-drakes-ben-mccollum-as-next-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa to hire Drake&#8217;s Ben McCollum as next head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"817\" data-end=\"1079\">The <strong data-start=\"821\" data-end=\"843\">University of Iowa<\/strong> has reached an agreement to hire <strong data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"893\">Ben McCollum<\/strong> as the new head coach of the men\u2019s basketball team. McCollum just wrapped up a historic 31-4 season at <strong data-start=\"997\" data-end=\"1006\">Drake<\/strong>, leading the Bulldogs to their <strong data-start=\"1038\" data-end=\"1078\">first NCAA Tournament win since 1971<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1081\" data-end=\"1237\">Prior to Drake, McCollum spent 15 seasons at <strong data-start=\"1126\" data-end=\"1154\">Northwest Missouri State<\/strong>, where he built a Division II powerhouse, winning <strong data-start=\"1205\" data-end=\"1236\">four national championships<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1239\" data-end=\"1399\">He replaces <strong data-start=\"1251\" data-end=\"1269\">Fran McCaffrey<\/strong>, who was let go after 15 seasons at Iowa. The Hawkeyes haven\u2019t advanced past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament since 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1426\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa has reached an agreement to hire Ben McCollum as the new head coach of the men\u2019s basketball team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":434660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-434653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/Iowa-University.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434653"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=434653"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=434653"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=434653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}