McCollum was a Hawkeye basketball fan, a Hawkeye basketball summer camper, and now is the Hawkeyes’ men’s basketball coach with a 6-year contract and a new message for the team: “Impose your will.”

New head coach Ben McCollum's Iowa roots are "a special part of the story," but athletic director Beth Goetz said he was hired to lead the men's basketball team because he is "a proven winner."

The Iowa men’s basketball program has featured plenty of different styles over the last three decades.  The relentless pressure defense under Tom Davis, the snail-paced offense under Todd Lickliter, and the up-and-down,