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AP -TeFoto -the head coach of Iowa, Fran McCaffery, will leave the square at the end of the first half of a NCAA College Basketball game against Michigan State on Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Iowa City, Iowa.

Iowa released coach Fran McCaffery on Friday after the Hawkeyes had won their few games and achieved the lowest Big Ten season for seven years with the lowest big ten season.

The 65-year-old McCaffery, who was under contract by 2028, had said last week that he intended to return for a 16th season instead of retiring.

Sports director Beth Goetz decided that a change in the order was the decline in the number of visitors in the Carver-Hawkeye Arena and that McCaffreys will unsubscribe $ 4.2 million. McCaffery was 297-207 at the Hawkeyes after the 106-94 defeat on Thursday evening against Illinois in the conference tournament. McCaffery was ejected in the middle of the second half because he had argued a bad call with officials.

McCaffery is Iowa's profits and longest coaches in the program history.

“Fran McCaffery has been an integral part of our Hawkeye family in the past 15 years,” said Goetz. “He is an enormous trainer and teacher, and we are grateful for the positive effects he has achieved on the institution and the community. We have a deep appreciation for his commitment to our student athletes and his passion for the game that will have a lasting influence on our program. “

The Hawkeyes, who ended 17-16, began to spiral after the goal scorer Owen Freeman suffered an injury at the end of the end time. They fell seven out of nine games in February and called for McCaffery Lauter to shoot Lauter when Iowa brought a fourth half in Maryland and was blown out 101-75.

Iowa gathered at the end of the season. In the last game of the regular season, when Nebraska visited the winner with the last place in the Big Ten tournament, the Hawkeyes won 83-68. They ended the 12th place with a 7:13 conference record in a five-way difference, but on Wednesday they rode the dynamics of their victory over Nebraska to a 77-70 disorder of the state of Ohio in Indianapolis.

The coach of the US state of Michigan, Tom Izzo, campaigned for McCaffery last week after the Spartans won in Iowa City to win the title of the regular season with big ten. Due to their flat donation pool, the Hawkeyes tried to attract elite talents for names, image and similarity compensation, although the 2025 class in the Big Ten took fifth place from the 247sports.

“You don't have the resources here,” said Izzo. “Everyone has different amounts of resources. They are not in the middle or upper end. “

Coaching change is coincided with the expected start of sales participation in Division I in July.

On the challenges that the next trainer looks opposite, the interest of the fans will revive, which has emigrated to the women's team with the rise of superstar Caitlin Clark and was transferred to the first season without them. The women's team sold out Carver Hawkeye for two years in a row and is in second place with an average paid visitors of 14,998.

The men of Iowa were 9,161 per game in the big ten in the big ten this season this season, although the actual crowds were significantly lower. This is a decline of 8% compared to last season and 26% decline from 2022-23.

McCaffery was head coach in Lehigh, Unc Greensboro and Siena before the former Iowa sports director in 2010 hired him in 2010.

He led the Hawkeyes 20 victories at eight seasons and won a game in four out of seven NCAA tournaments from 2012 to 2022-23.

The McCaffery family was prominent in Iowa City. The sons Connor (2018-23) and Patrick (2020-24) played for the Hawkeyes, and the community gathered around the McCaffreys when Patrick was treated as a 13-year-old for thyroid cancer.

The teams 2020-21 and 2021-22 were the best McCaffery.

The first of the AP international of the year, which was equipped by Luka Garza from the international of the year, won 22 games, took third place in the Big Ten, reached the second round of the NCAA tournament and was among the top 10.

Next season, when the high-ranking Keegan Murray took the way, Iowa won 26 games, was won in the Big Ten fourth and the Big Ten tournament before he was upset by Richmond at his NCAA start.