A look behind the scenes of how Beth Goetz landed on hiring Ben McCollum as Iowa basketball's next head coach.

Beth Goetz had a “good handful of conversations” with other coaches, but Drake’s Ben McCollum was always on her radar.

Iowa director of athletics Beth Goetz did not need long to land on Ben McCollum as the right man to lead the Hawkeye men's ...

Iowa AD Beth Goetz talks about the hiring of Ben McCollum as Iowa men's basketball head coach.

Ben McCollum was introduced alongside AD Beth Goetz and President Barbara Wilson. Multiple group chats were buzzing with ...

Ben McCollum has won at every stop of his coaching career, and dressing for success means ditching the sport coat but still ...

The Iowa Hawkeyes introduced new head coach Ben McCollum on Tuesday of this week and a consistent message came from his ...

Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — Beth Goetz had a phone call three years ago with Ben McCollum. Goetz, then the athletics director at Ball State, was looking for a men’s basketball ...

Beth Goetz knew that Ben McCollum was the perfect match for the Iowa head coaching job. She was sold on him early and waited ...

I have to put as much energy as I can into that. And she (Beth Goetz) respected that as much as any athletic director can respect that.” This wasn’t the first time that Goetz, Iowa's director ...

The Iowa native, born in Iowa City and raised in Storm Lake, replaces Fran McCaffery, the program’s all-time winningest coach ...