Update on the Roster; Fran is now forced to using no more than 10 man rotation! =)

[Franisdaman]

Now with Nunge and Fredrick red shirting, Fran only has 10 scholarship players to use/worry about. Hopefully this helps.

Here is a summary of the current roster, the future and how Fran has recruited since he has been at Iowa:

In Men's basketball, you can have 13 on scholarship.

Here is a summary of the McCaffery era recruits (March 2010 through today). Note that I list the years when they graduated, transferred or will graduate.


Graduating Class : Players

Future Graduating Classes:


2023: 2 players

6'6" SF Patrick McCaffery (****)
5'10" PG Joe Toussaint (***)


Current Roster (12 currently on scholarship; only 10 available; 2 are red shirting; 1 scholarship available):

2023: 1 player

6'4" SG CJ Fredrick (***); in early Nov, 2018, was decided CJ would redshirt the 2018-2019 season

2022: 3 players

6'5" SG Joe Wieskamp (****)
6'5" SG Connor McCaffery (****; announced on Apr 28, 2017 that he will play baseball in the Spring of 2018 and redshirt in basketball in the fall of 2017; ended up, however, playing in 4 games in Dec 2017 as a true freshman, mostly because of the Christian Williams departure; however, after missing two games due to a sprained ankle, eight contests due to mononucleosis, and 19 games after undergoing a tonsillectomy in December, 2017, he was granted a hardship waiver on March 26, 2018, where he will have 4 years of basketball eligibility remaining; on April 11, 2018, Connor was put on scholarship).
6'9" F Jack Nunge (***); in early Nov, 2018, was decided Jack would redshirt the 2018-2019 season


2021: 1 player

6'10" C Luke Garza (****)


2020: 6 players

6'8" PF Tyler Cook (****)
6'8" SF Cordell Pemsl (***)
6'9" PF Ryan Kriener (***)
6'0" PG Jordan Bohannon (***)
6'5" SF Isaiah Moss (***; was redshirted in 2015-16)
6'6" G Maishe Dailey (***)


2019: 1 player

6'7" SF Nick Baer (was a preferred walk-on his 2014-15 red shirt year and for the 2015-16 season; put on scholarship in March 2016)


Notable Walk on players:

2021: 2 players

6'6" Riley Till (redshirted in 2016-2017)
6'2" Guard Austiin Ash


Previous graduating classes and early departures:


2018: 3 players

6'8" SF Dominique Uhl (***) graduated
6'4" SG Brady Ellingson (***; was redshirted in 2014-15 season) was scheduled to run out of eligibly at Iowa in 2019 but decided in March 2018 to transfer and play his final season elsewhere (ended up at Drake)
6'7" SF Ahmad Wagner (***) was scheduled to graduate in 2019 but in March 2018 he announced he was leaving basketball in order to give football a try. He ended up at Kentucky.

2017: 3 players

6'6" SG Peter Jok
6'8" PF Dale Jones (graduated; due to injury, was granted a 6th year of eligibility but that additional year would not be at Iowa; in Apr 2017 Jones committed to the University of North Dakota)
6'6" combo guard Christian Williams (***; was originally scheduled to graduate in 2019; on Thurs Oct 26, 2017, Williams asked for and was granted a release from his scholarship; Williams finished out his academic requirements for the fall 2017 semester before transferring to Indiana State)

2016: 6 players

PG Anthony Clemmons
PG Mike Gesell
C Adam Woodbury
SF Jarrod Uthoff
**Two players granted release in March 2016**
6'6" SG Andrew Fleming (***, was set to graduate in 2019)
6'6" SF Brandon Hutton (***; was redshirted in 2015-16; was set to graduate in 2020)

2015: 5 players

SG Josh Ogelsby
PF Aaron White
C Gabe Olaseni
SG Kyle Denning
PG Trey Dickerson quit/left the team on Feb 23, 2015

2014 (Fran's first recruiting class): 5 players

PF Melsahn Basabe
SG Devyn Marble
PF Zach McCabe
SF Darius Stokes (graduated & transferred)
C Kyle Meyer (granted release & transferred; he redshirted his 2012 freshman season and therefore would have been set to graduate in 2017)

2013: 1 player

PG Patrick Ingram (would have been part of the 2016 graduation class; transferred in March 2013, after just one season at Iowa)

2012: 1 player

PG Bryce Cartwright (signed Letter of Intent on June 9, 2010). Bryce was the second recruit for McCaffery at Iowa (Melsahn Basabe, who initially signed with Siena, was Fran's first recruit; Basabe announced he was a Hawkeye on May 1, 2010). Cartwright joined already signed Iowa recruits Devyn Marble, Zach McCabe and Melsahn Basabe on the 2010-2011 roster.

 

[paladinhawk]

Hopefully Fran won't hesitate to yank players that are slacking on defense.

 

[Franisdaman]

Hopefully Fran won't hesitate to yank players that are slacking on defense.

isn't an 8 man rotation ideal?

do you think we will ever see that this year?

 

[MepoDawg#]

Uses 10 and uses complete line shifts (5 in 5 out). That hasn’t worked previously and won’t work this year either.

 

[CuttyDoesIt]

isn't an 8 man rotation ideal?

do you think we will ever see that this year?

Yes, by conference play we should only be using an 8 man rotation. Fran disagrees though.

 

[Franisdaman]

Uses 10 and uses complete line shifts (5 in 5 out). That hasn’t worked previously and won’t work this year either.

yeah, its not very strategic at all

 

[paladinhawk]

Yes, by conference play we should only be using an 8 man rotation. Fran disagrees though.

IMO the issue is that there are maybe 3 or 4 players with 'elite' (would start on most Big10 teams) talent, and 6 or so that aren't quite there. Moss looks great one game and disappears the next. The "8 man rotation" should vary depending on who is playing well on a particular night.

 

[perryhawk]

Illness and injury, foul trouble are issues that will dictate how many play.....and even if 10 play if some play for only a couple of minutes that's not a bad thing. That couple of minutes might be the time that a specific player has one of those really good days that just comes out of the blue.

I think this is a real positive....a big deal.

 

[wyohawk]

As long as Cook, JBo, and Weiskamp get full plates of minutes, I defer to Fran on which of the others split the rest

 

[IamHawkeye]

yeah, its not very strategic at all

TD did it.

 

[Herky T Hawk]

I think he'll play all 10 in a game. But barring a miracle turnaround I expect that Pemsl's minutes will plummet once the schedule difficulty cranks up except for injury or foul trouble. Especially the way that Kriener is improving. I could also see Moss's minutes decrease if he doesn't start playing with some passion.

So, I think it will be something like this once Big Ten season starts, rounded to the nearest 5.
JBo, Cook, Joe all around 30 minutes or higher
Garza, Kriener, Baer around 20 minutes
CMac, Moss, Dailey around 15 minutes
Pemsl around 5 minutes

That's really a 9 man rotation, with an additional guy that plays a few minutes in each half.

That breaks down at 75 minutes for Cook, Garza, Kreiner, and Pemsl in the front court. So it'd need Baer to play PF for a bit in a small ball lineup.

JBo and CMac covering the PG completely, plus some time left over to cover SG

Moss and Dailey covering 30 minutes of SG, with the rest covered by some combo of JBo, CMac, and Joe

And then SF is completely covered by Joe and Baer.

 

[CO_hawk]

If we are going to do two groups of 5. Pick two captains and let them pick the rest of their team. Just like recess.
Maybe they will play better with each other.

 

[mazda1]

I get what you’re saying, but we had better players in recess.

 

[LuteHawk]

With only 10 scholarship players, Fran needs to find
the right combinations coming off the bench. Baer
and Dailey will need to be the energizers who can
bring momentum into the game with their defense.

 

[Franisdaman]

Fran used 10 players in the win over Oregon

9 scholarship players
1 walk on (Till)